I have bought 2 ball pythons in the last year and both of them have died. The female I bought in Jan of 2010 and she never ate, we had to force feed her pinkies every time. We even took her back to the store for them to look at her and they told me she was fine that she wasnt eating because it was cold outside. We bought a male a few months after we bought the female and he was sick to. He ate just fine but he had a breathing problem. So we decided to take them both to the vet. It turned out the female had a respritory infection and a parasite, and he had a respritory problem as well. They both got treated but it was to late for her, she died from the parasite. Now the male has just died...we havent even had him a year yet. His repritory problem never went away we just tamed it but it came back 10 times worse. I took him back to the vet to get more shots but again it was to late....i watched both of my pets die. He chocked to death after his lungs filled up with fluid. 600 bucks later from vet bills and medicine i now have 2 pets that died very painfully. I did everything my vet told me to, they had a 125 gallon tank, UVA and UVB lights, the temperature on the warm in was 97, the temp on the cooler end stayed above 87 because of the medicine they took. They had everything!!! And i was told these snakes were healthy, that nothing was wrong with them...if thats the case why did 2 snakes that usually live a very long time....die in less than a year and why did they die in such a painful way?? DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THESE PEOPLE!!!
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