ok heres the full name and address forthose who wish to make a drive by
FISH & REPTILE EMPORIUM
683 CARY TOWNE BLVD
CARY, NC
(919)461-2400
its been one week since i was there , heres the situation they have to start off with there housing Boas, Pythons in the same less then standard enclosures , they have two large rooms id say 12x12 in each room they have a large "garden type pond" for soaking, also filled with probably much older CHIT then someone said about neils place only this was in the water ( only source so there also drinking this old water filled with chit) ok in one room they have that i personally walked in with persuasion a 14-15 ft burmese python, 2 -9-12 foot albino pythons , a fw 5-8 ft pythons and at the time to miserable looking Boas ( covered in bite wounds and puss filled scars) ok this room has a 10 ft ceiling in it and the snakes were "chilled" might i say to the touch.only means spam_of heat i could visible and physically see were a few spam_what looked like 250 w heat lamps nothing to my visual eye on the floorheat.
ok room #2 spam_thre were 3 spam_best i could tell retics all housed in the same room and one burmese room was same conditions as other but a lil cleaner as he had just cleaned it that day.
ok now outside thiese rooms was ( i think) a 75 or 90 gallon tank with 3 pittyful looking suri's and a few cold mite covered albino pythons this cage was heated with a looked like 75 w heat bulb.
ok now this brings me to the long line of built in stacked spam_cages they have with various types of snakes geckos and lizards spam_. The time i went in the store was when the opened for buisness 11am !! spam_ok that being said when i spam_entred there store the lights were off ... hmmm i noticed all the cages were dark spam_ no heat lights at all were own and the cages were on average 20's,30's & 55 gallon tanks spam_, they have a abundant supply of ball pythons spam_which are kept in lots of like 5-10 per cage !!here and again not healty way to keep your snakes housed ? spam_ so by this time im thinking geesh spam_how bad can one store be ? so i then started a round of questions to th employee , asking him what kinda temps i need to keep these snakes at if i were to buy one , omg he started to tell me that the boas and pythons were tropical snakes and liked it rather dry and not having temps over about 75 - 80 max!!! so i asked him " is that why ya dont leave the lights on in the cages at night ? he said yeah that and power bill. ok by this time i could no longr hold up the charades i was livid (sp) in the manner there animals were being kept so i told him what i felt needed to be done , starting with needing to sale /give/ something away or buy more cages to house animals seperate and if nothing else keep the da_n boas and pythons seperate as there were disease that could be passed to ea snake that the others do not have or noemally would get , not to mention the large water ponds with the fecal& urinates in it is like feeding the snakes poison. and thats also another good way to make spam_disease spread by leaving tanks in the shape they were in there spam_so at this time i was told i needed to give them a break that they were doing the best they could ... i will be going back there sometime this week and if at all possible i am going to take pictures ( if they let me in w a camera) well spam_if anyone lives in the Raleigh /cary area and has ben or would like to drop by that store location and check out there place on there own , like i spam_said i feel i did the right thing spam_in asking first what advice they give to a person they would sell these spam_poor sickly looking animals to ? then after there spam_advice on " how to kill your pet snake " i gave conSTRUCTIVE spam_advice on how they can atleast make there place better for the animals they have and the took offense to that so when i go back this week if the situations have not bettered for the animals ( i doubt they have) i will then take the next step in contacing the fish & wildlife to make a visit , now those who think spam_in the terms of being a rat or ( i hope there should be none of those ) im sorry but the condition they had there were FAR less the ideal for anything much less reptiles . spam_well theres my spam_info on a BAD place to do buisness unles you want to do a lot of $$$$ in making the animals better
ALan HAll <~~~ look full name , and ITS MINE spam_lol
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