LythSalicaria
Arachnosquire
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- Jun 4, 2014
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So my LPS has another G. porteri in stock. It's a little one, estimated DLS of 2.5" - 3". It looks pretty dehydrated and it always seems to be marching around its enclosure like its looking for somewhere to hide...or possibly food. Another remote possibility is that's an immature male.
This is the same LPS that sold me a gravid G. porteri as my first T. They're either bringing in WC specimens (pointlessly! How many CB rosies are out there? Millions?) or their supplier doesn't separate breeding stock from animals available for sale.
I've been debating on rescuing it, fattening it up and looking for someone who'll give it a good forever home (though I am fully prepared to keep it for the rest of its life if another home can't be found), but if I do they're just going to bring in another one and in a few months I'll be struggling with the same dilemma. I don't know what to do about this - aside from this one unfortunate issue, it's a pretty good pet store. They only ever bring in CB birds and herps, they carry an interesting selection of fish and they're the only place in town where I'm comfortable buying feeder bugs, so I'd rather avoid alienating them unless they give me a good reason to do so. In the worst case scenario I do have someone near me from whom I can order feeders in bulk.
In an ideal world I would educate them on how to tell the difference between a healthy Tarantula and a not-so-healthy one, but at the end of the day I know that all they really care about is selling the T as fast as possible. A far more realistic solution is to talk them out of selling inverts - it's not like they're making any money out of it anyway. On average, they sell one invert every 3 months for $30. Fish and fish accessories seem to be their bread and butter.
Does anyone have advice on how to approach them on this issue? I'm sure that Pet Store owners get pretty annoyed with people like myself coming in and telling them how to run their business, and as I said, I don't want to ruffle anyone's feathers.
This is the same LPS that sold me a gravid G. porteri as my first T. They're either bringing in WC specimens (pointlessly! How many CB rosies are out there? Millions?) or their supplier doesn't separate breeding stock from animals available for sale.
I've been debating on rescuing it, fattening it up and looking for someone who'll give it a good forever home (though I am fully prepared to keep it for the rest of its life if another home can't be found), but if I do they're just going to bring in another one and in a few months I'll be struggling with the same dilemma. I don't know what to do about this - aside from this one unfortunate issue, it's a pretty good pet store. They only ever bring in CB birds and herps, they carry an interesting selection of fish and they're the only place in town where I'm comfortable buying feeder bugs, so I'd rather avoid alienating them unless they give me a good reason to do so. In the worst case scenario I do have someone near me from whom I can order feeders in bulk.
In an ideal world I would educate them on how to tell the difference between a healthy Tarantula and a not-so-healthy one, but at the end of the day I know that all they really care about is selling the T as fast as possible. A far more realistic solution is to talk them out of selling inverts - it's not like they're making any money out of it anyway. On average, they sell one invert every 3 months for $30. Fish and fish accessories seem to be their bread and butter.
Does anyone have advice on how to approach them on this issue? I'm sure that Pet Store owners get pretty annoyed with people like myself coming in and telling them how to run their business, and as I said, I don't want to ruffle anyone's feathers.