Since my move to Concord in February, I've been making an effort to check out every local pet store. Conveniently, I have the East Bay Vivarium 25-30 minutes up the road in Berkeley, as well as Hoffman's Reptiles roughly a mile from my apartment.
I've recently started working for Dan Hoffman and am now managing the store, which has been fun so far! He carries an assortment of common reptiles you find in the pet trade such as bearded dragons, corn snakes, ball pythons, leopard geckos, Russian tortoises, rose hair tarantulas, three-toed box turtles, blue-tongued skinks, etc. He also carries things that you won't typically find at your big-box pet store like Petco or PetSmart though too. He carries argus and Savannah monitors, as well as black and white Argentine tegus (he has two pairs of adults and a few babies on the way). He also has Colombian rainbow boas, Brazilian rainbow boas, Western hog-nose, children's pythons (funny name in my opinion "here son, play with this..."), Mississippi musk turtles, newts and also a false water cobra.
Unfortunately Hoffman's is not a place that many people know of, however the store has been open for around 31 years! It's a place worth seeing if you're as crazy as I am about checking out different pet stores across the map. Here's his web site: http://www.hoffmannsreptiles.com/.
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