pturley
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Recently I had the distinct pleasure of doing business with and spending a bit of time with David and Shandra Amon, owners of Rad Reptiles (aka: Gloryhound here on Fauna).
David and Shandra have a small but growing, top notch collection of ball pythons, Nicaraguan boas and Kenyan Sand boas. Their facility is clean, very well organized and very well kept.
For the animals I was buying, Shandra was able to produce a complete record of feeding records (including feeding times, refusals, sheds, etc) for the snakes I purchased, clear back to their original acquisition and from whom they purchased the animals originally. I suspect they likely have this same data for every animal in their collection!
(I have a smaller collection than they do and I barely manage to keep the feed cards up to date! I am going to use their records keeping skills as inspiration to improve on my own!)
Not only were they very gracious hosts they allowed me to poke around their herp room for a while answering every question I had. They even let me play with their 32lbs, 5+ foot long female blood python (one big, beautiful animal!).
I was even able to find a mutant that I liked (I generally don’t do mutants and only like/keep wild-type morphs). The albino ball pythons were ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! I’ll be watching for their postings for babies from the clutch of eggs they had incubating (if at least only to “window-shop”). In the shadows of the Perry Nuclear power plant and with a business name like Rad Reptiles (as in radioactive), how could I not find a mutant that I liked!
Thank you again for the Children's pythons ( A. childrenii), all are doing great for me (even the picky eater!).
Sincerely,
Paul E. Turley
David and Shandra have a small but growing, top notch collection of ball pythons, Nicaraguan boas and Kenyan Sand boas. Their facility is clean, very well organized and very well kept.
For the animals I was buying, Shandra was able to produce a complete record of feeding records (including feeding times, refusals, sheds, etc) for the snakes I purchased, clear back to their original acquisition and from whom they purchased the animals originally. I suspect they likely have this same data for every animal in their collection!
(I have a smaller collection than they do and I barely manage to keep the feed cards up to date! I am going to use their records keeping skills as inspiration to improve on my own!)
Not only were they very gracious hosts they allowed me to poke around their herp room for a while answering every question I had. They even let me play with their 32lbs, 5+ foot long female blood python (one big, beautiful animal!).
I was even able to find a mutant that I liked (I generally don’t do mutants and only like/keep wild-type morphs). The albino ball pythons were ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! I’ll be watching for their postings for babies from the clutch of eggs they had incubating (if at least only to “window-shop”). In the shadows of the Perry Nuclear power plant and with a business name like Rad Reptiles (as in radioactive), how could I not find a mutant that I liked!
Thank you again for the Children's pythons ( A. childrenii), all are doing great for me (even the picky eater!).
Sincerely,
Paul E. Turley