Fun pet shop mis-identification stories

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We're all used to mis-labelled fish at our LFS, but it happens on the herp side too, and it's pretty amusing. Yesterday I walked into our Pet Supplies Plus to kill a little time, and I'm looking at the fish, and my wife says, "hey look, a nile monitor". So I head over to have a peek at this nile...and find a beautiful little tegu staring me in the eye. A Colombian of course...if it was an Argentine I'd be posting pics of it in my possession, Argentine tegu for a nile monitor price, nice.

I actually almost bought it anyway, perfect specimen from what I could tell and seemed pretty fearless.
 
unbelievably, i saw a boa constrictor labeled as a "brown morph green tree python" and yes, i'm serious.:screwy:
 
haha yea. there was a tiger shovelnose labeled as a shovelnose. i asked the guy what kind. he said just a normal shovelnose and that it only reaches about a foot. HAHA i got a positive ID from the pros at MFK. and yep a TSN. haha sorry i dont have any reptile storys yet.
 
iv spotted a few in shops but cant remember what.

but was out with the man from my local rep shop today and we went in to a cd/dvd/game store, and i was lookign at the horrors. anyway, 'Anacondas' actually had a pic of a indian python on the front lol we were both amused.
nearly bought it just to see if the actual film was all an indian python rather than annies.
 
chloe;4397738; said:
iv spotted a few in shops but cant remember what.

but was out with the man from my local rep shop today and we went in to a cd/dvd/game store, and i was lookign at the horrors. anyway, 'Anacondas' actually had a pic of a indian python on the front lol we were both amused.
nearly bought it just to see if the actual film was all an indian python rather than annies.
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oh yeah, i saw that.:ROFL:
 
A. gigas;4397735; said:
unbelievably, i saw a boa constrictor labeled as a "brown morph green tree python" and yes, i'm serious.:screwy:
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hahahaha oh dear. thing is a boa would b soooo much easier to care for than a gtp lol
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A. gigas;4397740; said:
oh yeah, i saw that.:ROFL:
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and was it an indian the whole way through? or did they actually use an annie?
 
chloe;4397747; said:
and was it an indian the whole way through? or did they actually use an annie?
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As I recall they were just fake snakes all the way through...the movie takes place in Thailand I think so they've botched it either way. I think the original with J-Lo etc was in the Amazon though.

Also I can't stop thinking about this tegu, I really want it, but I'm resisting because I know it will need its adult enclosure before I'm able to provide it. It's somewhere between 18" and 2' now, not a baby.
 
The one reptile shop near me gets in things from time to time and they have no idea what they are and I swear they draw the names out of a hat. I usually stop by and correct them every few weeks to their enjoyment. Last week they had a Butterfly Agama labeled as a Jungle Runner and a Side-blotched lizard as a Texas Collared Lizard.

They also have a "Dwarf" Pyxie Frog for sale that they refuse to believe is a dwarf. They keep telling me it's the larger species which I know isn't true since I OWN the larger one, lol!
 
I have seen a red tail payara listed as a scomb. unfortunately, I did not get it though. I have also heard stories of some really neat things coming in with imports like fiji banded iguana came in with a shipment of other lizards from asia or a diamondback terrapin that came in with a bunch of sliders.

My personal favorite was when I saw a normal ball python in petco listed as "pretty phase python" and being sold for $200
 
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