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Posted by Trident on November 16, 2002 at 16:37:59:
Way back when I bought my very first reptile from a local Petco. It was a Sudanese Plated Lizard. I must have been 15 or so at the time...they sold me a 20G long aquarium, hot rock, and a prefabricated "hide" along with some astroturf-type bedding. They sent me home with NO information about the lizard at all. Hey, I was just a kid, what did I know about proper animal husbandry?
This lizard must have been 18-20 inches long and very thick bodied. The poor guy didn't even have room to turn around comfortably in the aquarium. The first time I really inspected him, I found he had a large infected abcess on his underbelly and wounds on his tail from either rodent bites or bites from his cagemates.
I ended up exchanging him for a pair of Cuban Anoles, which lived about 2 years before I donated them to the science department at a local university. I've come a long way since then, and now I will absolutely never patronize Petco, Petsmart or any other large chain type petstore.
