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(And I'm looking for scientific answers here, people, not just the usual "in my experience" crap.)
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Wrong way to go about keeping reptile my man. Science has done jack sh*t for reptile-keeping. Reptile keeping and breeding has evolved and advanced ONLY because of record keeping, observations, and trial and error. NOTHING ELSE. Don't kid yourself. Science is for theory and for hypothesizing. Observation and ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING is what drives reptile husbandry to progress. Do tell, what do all your "science" books say about breeding Boelen's Pythons? I'm dying to know.
Read these two quotes by one of the best in the biz. I hope he doesn't get mad for me posting them here:
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Posted by FR on Wed - Jul 23 - 10:46am:
In Reply to: I wonder? posted by Andrew Owen on Tue - Jul 22 - 11:48pm:
Wow, that was a bit revealling for both of us. First you, it seems you thought you actually learn for reading(research?????) I thought you learned from doing(my revealling part). I thought reading was to make you aware of something, not actually to know something. I also thought, research included the actual events of doing as well as reading and other comunications. But then what do I know?
I sometimes get the feeling that a reptile that constantly eats food backwards is one or two blocks shy of a load. But then, I believe most living things are not perfect. It also could be simply because the food item was not big enough to make a difference. Give that individual larger prey and see what happens. Monitors are good at only doing whats necessary.
Yea, monitors are a case of the more you see the less you know. They don't do the same research we do, they just go by their book. Frank
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You see, animals are living things that are dynamic and ever-changing. Whether or not a light bulb dries out a cage at the exact same rate that a heat pad does is irrelevant. Heck, its not even important, at least not to me. I only care about breeding reptiles and selling the babies. That's it. So I do what has been proven to work and I avoid the things that have been PROVEN to NOT work. How hard can that be?
And a light bulb will dry out a cage faster because it heats the air (ambient). An UTH just heats the ground in a particular spot within a cage. A light bulb heats up the WHOLE cage (yikes).
And GTP's and Bloods are NOT Rainbows. Both those snakes like it hotter and GTP's like it warmer. GTP's are just green Carpet pythons. Nothing more. They aren't delicate like everyone thinks they are.
How's that for science?
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