I would recommend everyone to do business with Reptile Haven. I have done business with Reptile Haven and Chris Estep (the owner) for almost 3 years. They are 1.5 hours away from my house, so I drive there almost once every month. Chris is very helpful, pleasant to do business with, and he is also honest. From now until mid of June, they are in the process of moving to downtown San Diego (further from my home), so he's kind of busy. He has two guys but they are mainly help out in the store. Internet business is handle by Chris himself. It would be better to call him instead of email him, since he's not online that often (I think he hasn't update his website for years)
It's true that you can get smoking deal with them. I have bought several animals from them with wholesale price. Their animals are also well taken care of. Chris changed his cages as well as racks in order to give the animals optimum husbandry, easy for him and his employee to maintain, and convenience for the buyers to view the animals (I really like his racks with glass containers) He also concern more on the animals and customers more than his business. I witnessed he once refused to sell a reticulate python (approx 4 feet) to a teenager, who was interested in purchasing the snake just because he can get it from Chris for $75.00 instead of $150.00 from the store a couple block down the street but doesn't know about the fact that retic. can grow big and can be aggressive. In regard of the adult Uromastyx, a year and half ago I saw they had a bunch of them for that rock bottom price of $19.00 (I was so tempted to buy some at that time, but I was into boa and ball). Those have been sold out. I think he just have the cb baby (my last time there was about 3 weeks ago).
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