www.backwaterreptiles.com

[CJ PELCHER]

Well they said they cant guarantee the needs of my requests after the 4th email due to the fact they cannot guarantee a male or female being sent to me. My needs were to specific for them to handle.
However, they finally stated after several emails asking where they were caught from that they came from Nicaragua. Due to the location they have a pretty fair chance of having chytridiomycosis. Frogs in that general location have been known to carry that disease. This will complete and finalize the testimonial.

[CJ PELCHER]

I tried LLL they only have babies. =/

[redeyedtreefrog123451]

I tried LLL they only have babies. =/

Oh darn sorry last time they had all ages! :P

[demon amphibians]

I have also had a couple bad experiences with this site. The way their site is set up makes them look very professional but this is very misleading. First i ordered a few hundred dubias from them i received them in the mail after 3 days of ordering, when i opened the box they all came rushing out all over the place. granted dubia are very slow but when you have hundreds running in every direction it is not a good surprise especially when you are new to breeding roaches and had second thoughts about roaches to begin with. they used no containers they just put them all in a box with a few peaces of torn up cardboard then along with roach chow and water crystals which they charged 10 times the price of what the items where even worth. anyways they just threw these items in the box of loose roaches as well which in shipping crushed many of them. But despite my better instincts i order a smooth sided toad from them a few weeks later. it arrived skinny and none active. it wouldnt eat or hop around it was extremely malnourished. Keep in mind this toad was overnighted, so when i ordered it i received it the very next day which tells anyone with a brain that they sent this toad in this condition. It died less then two days later. smooth sided toads are not cheap either. I emailed them and they said that there was nothing they could do because it arrived alive and i didn't send a pic when it arrived. not to mention they where some what rude in the email. I also posted a bad review on their site and just like what they did to CJ, they deleted it with in an hour of me posting. One more thing i would like to add is that they have cane toad listed and a marine toad listed on there site at different prices. Cane toad and marine toad are the exact same species. So what would be the reason behind having these listed as two different species at different prices? It may be because they are different sizes but when they list them under different names kinda hints that they do not know much about this species. I emailed them to ask this very question and i never got a response. after reading CJs post i am not a bit surprised that they pulled this stunt. I just hope that people on this forum read this and don't make the same mistakes i did.

[CJ PELCHER]

Demon,

Thanks for the heads up. =O thats crazy!!

[Hypnotic]

A.I.R EXOTICS, I think the way that they replyed to you, and even tryed to intimidate you not to post a negative review, pretty much sums it all up. They clearly don't strike me as professional with an attitude like that.
Demon, sorry, but I couldn't help nearly spitting out my orange juice laughing. I'l admit, that's no way to ship cockroaches, but seriously, the mental image I had of you opening that box just cracked me up.
Reading all of the above, I definitely would not buy from them if I lived close enough too, they don't sound professional at all. And if your going to ship a box of roaches without any containers inside, atleast write it on the box.

[ejh805]

From everything I've read about them, they're awful to deal with.
And the animals that are bought from Backwater, they never even see. What's the term?.....drop shippers. Technically the animal is never even seen by the people selling it to you.

[Truffs1178]

One more thing i would like to add is that they have cane toad listed and a marine toad listed on there site at different prices. Cane toad and marine toad are the exact same species.

I saw that too, pretty stupid if you ask me.

[CJ PELCHER]

One more thing i would like to add is that they have cane toad listed and a marine toad listed on there site at different prices. Cane toad and marine toad are the exact same species. So what would be the reason behind having these listed as two different species at different prices? It may be because they are different sizes but when they list them under different names kinda hints that they do not know much about this species. I emailed them to ask this very question and i never got a response.

Demon,

I obviously don't care for backwater anymore however this statement is no longer true or if at all. Looks like they fixed it. Am I wrong? I cant find the marine toad on their anymore. Maybe they didn't reply to you because they fixed it?

[demon amphibians]

Demon,

I obviously don't care for backwater anymore however this statement is no longer true or if at all. Looks like they fixed it. Am I wrong? I cant find the marine toad on their anymore. Maybe they didn't reply to you because they fixed it?

they did change the name to south american marine toad. since i posted! how about that.

[CJ PELCHER]

SO in reality its no real change... still double marketing