I was just thinking of exactly the situation when you go there for feeders and might chat.
Like when I went to the store where I got my Taco from (I will not get another reptile*; I only buy there some feeders, but not even accessories as they don't have the lamps), I'm often asked how he's doing, and I showed photos.
I even did so (generally love documentaries and such). That's why I mentioned that I like that they can be kept well in different setups.
*100% not. I love reptiles, I love herps in general, the store is fine, but I just don't want to add another pet with all the difficulties of buying the lamps. If I would have to buy twice as many... no way. (Right now, for example, there is no basking lamp available in Chile - checked tons of stores, all are out of stock. I have a bunch of spare ones, accumulated over some time, so no problem for Taco, but you see the general problem. I have one single store in Chile that can deliver the tube (like the basking lamp also not sold by a store in town or in any distance that makes sense to go there) - ordered it a while before I need to replace it just to be on the safe side.)
We have Taco, we have fish (just a simple aquarium with some cory catfish and plati), hissing cockroaches (had two months ago three fat ones escaping, found number one behind a sideboard, number two stomped flat next to the elevator... and number three was found yesterday in the dark by my husband who first thought it is a leaf somebody might have brought in with their shoes, but then recognized that "leaf" was running under the bed, then he put half of the bedroom apart
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"hisser" is now back in his tank which we made breakout-proof in the meanwhile) - enough. I might add some low-maintenance insects or other invertebrates if I could get them (thought a while of train millipedes but not available here, also mantis are not available here, different countries have different rules about especially invertebrates).
I remember my husband once being asked if I had any problems with the insects I have to keep for my dragon - you know, common prejudice "wife fears insects"
I remember my husband once being asked if I had any problems with the insects I have to keep for my dragon - you know, common prejudice "wife fears insects", scary worms and roaches
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His answer was "no, the problem is the opposite, she likes all those crawlers"
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Like: Oh, they sell hissing cockroaches - oh, I want some! (It's not that I do impulse buying, not doing so as I think also insects should have a good life, but it's that fear or disgust isn't there.)