In the other local paper on the Central Coast today there is another article about the aquarium having a NPWS licence. I quote:
"On Wednesday, Mrs Nunn announced her aquarium was the first on the Central Coast to obtain a National Parks and Wildlife Service licence to sell snakes, liazards and turtles as perts.
A condition of the licence is that the aquarium must provide courses on owning and caring for a reptile."
"As a result we can't sell reptiles to anyone who hasn't finished the course."
They also have signs hanging all over the store saying "GET YOUR CHILDRENS PYTHONS HERE".
I went in and checked this place out today - seems pretty cool, just up the road from me and they have frozen mice/rats which is awesome considering I thought i'd have to drive 30mins just to get some...I also bought two python/reptile books (a bit over priced but none-the-less) as I can't be bothered waiting 6 weeks for dymmocks to back-order them even though I've already paid for them :/
They also gave me the names of 5 local breeders and their numbers for me to call - very helpful people. Don't think any of them have Coastal's for sale though, in the books it was mainly Children's.
The course is $60 for the Childrens Python one on Tuesday and they're also running a Diamond Python one soon.