The petstore lures you in with a $5 lizard (bosc monitor) for $50, and sells you a $25-$50 glass aquarium made for fish with a screen top, a 75-150watt reptile bulb for $7-$15, a dome lamp for $15, some astroturf for $10, a water dish for $5, some cheap vitamin supplement for $10 a can, and a decorative rock basking spot for $15, all the while you think "wow, I only spent $50 on this monitor", in reality youve now spent $170.00 and you havent even bought food for the animal yet. Your bosc dies from unexplained kidney failure anywhere from 3 months to a year or so time and your back to buy a replacement because it was only $50, and that same pet store has many more to seel cheaply when that one dies.

Its all about making money and getting you out the door fast. The petsore employees dont know squat about keeping reptiles properly so they tell you buy this, this, and this to make money off of you and get you going.

If they werent kept in screen top cages there wouldnt be overweight dieing dehydrated boscs in every 10th household or so and the pet stores wouldnt sell millions every year because they would be alive and breeding, then $300 CBB savannahs would be sold more often.

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