It used to drive me crazy when I would hear that at the petstore. Customers would be telling other customers "oh yeah just keep it in a small tank and it'll stay small, we do that with ours" and I'd kind of lose it lol.

Turtles seem to suffer from this far more often than snakes. I have quite a few friends who, when I told them reptiles are not fish, told me about their pet turtle when they were younger that lived for "such a long time" and they only kept it in a little ten gallon or even something smaller. "How long is a long time?" "oh, three years." "You do know they live about 20 years with proper care, right?" "oh."

Sad

~jenny
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1.2.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, Periscope, and dah bebbies)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard (Freckles)
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

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