On may 30 2002 I bought 1.1 cb 00 het orange ghost ball pythons from NERD. The snakes arrived and were a little small, I weighed them and the male was 282 grams, the female was about ten grams heavier. The female died the first week of Aug. so I no longer have the feed card. I did not call kevin and let him know! I did not take her to a vet and do a necropsy!! I just figured that **** happens and wrote the whole thing off. I currently keep just shy of 100 ball pythons so I am not new to taking care of snakes and have done so for many years. My partner was talking to Adam about ball pythons and mentioned or loss. I was not going to post here but since I have been brought into this I felt that I should respond. I have enclosed a copy of the feed card and invoice of purchase. These animals were bought over the phone. When I asked for weight of the snakes before purchase I was told that they did not know and was given what was thought to be there length. On the feed card there is the weight on 6/5/02 of 282grams, also it shows my feedings from 5/31/02 but the card starts showing feedings of 10/7 01 and nothing before so I figure that there was a card before this one since we are missing a year. But there was one feeding on 10/07/01, 10/24/01, 11/16/01, 12/13/01, 1/03/02, 1/15/02, 1/21/02, 1/31/02, 2/11/02, 3/11/02, 3/22/02, 3/27/02, 4/10/02, 5/07/02, 5/19/02 these were the feeding on the card at purchase. Thats 15 feedings in 8 months. I have 41 feedings in 8 months. NERD has some the the coolest looking ball pythons no one can argue that. I do not know anything about genetic deffects and have not said otherwise. I did recieve ball pythons from NERD, they were not feed the way I would have feed them.
Rusty Davis
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