I went into my local Petco this past Sunday morning to pick up some superworms, as my regular dude was delayed, and I saw something new and disturbing, and I'm wondering if this is a corporate-wide thing...
Since I can remember my local Petco has kept their beardies and leopard geckos on carpeting, and they used long, tube UVB lights over each row of tanks...On Sunday I immediately noticed that they had redone their entire lives reptile tanks, and now they have both their tiny, new hatchling bearded dragon babies and tiny leopard geckos on bright white Calcium sand...Then I see these new stickers everywhere, all over the top and under each individual tank, that say "Petco endorses and recommends only Zilla brand reptlie lighting and accessories"...
Did they make a deal or something? The lights are now obviously not tubes, but a single, compact light over each tank. And Zilla doesn't make an MVB light...It was really upsetting about the Calcium sand, because at least my local Petco sells baby beardies under a month old! The animal manager told me that their current vendor ships them babies as soon as they are 4" long, which most are when they are hatched! They literally look like they just hatched the day before, no exaggeration. That's nothing new. But the damn Calcium sand and the single, compact lights are, along with Zilla crap everywhere. And I didn't look at each tank to know what was what, but they had that white Calcium sand in almost every tank!
Since I can remember my local Petco has kept their beardies and leopard geckos on carpeting, and they used long, tube UVB lights over each row of tanks...On Sunday I immediately noticed that they had redone their entire lives reptile tanks, and now they have both their tiny, new hatchling bearded dragon babies and tiny leopard geckos on bright white Calcium sand...Then I see these new stickers everywhere, all over the top and under each individual tank, that say "Petco endorses and recommends only Zilla brand reptlie lighting and accessories"...
Did they make a deal or something? The lights are now obviously not tubes, but a single, compact light over each tank. And Zilla doesn't make an MVB light...It was really upsetting about the Calcium sand, because at least my local Petco sells baby beardies under a month old! The animal manager told me that their current vendor ships them babies as soon as they are 4" long, which most are when they are hatched! They literally look like they just hatched the day before, no exaggeration. That's nothing new. But the damn Calcium sand and the single, compact lights are, along with Zilla crap everywhere. And I didn't look at each tank to know what was what, but they had that white Calcium sand in almost every tank!