"thought" as another way of looking at it. I will try to articulate...

The broader concept must be understood. If new herpers buy into all these concepts like UVB, gut loading ect...then they get confused as to what is really taking place.They start theorizing/thinking from a FLAWED perspective out of the gate. Take UVB for example. A kid puts a UVB on his lizard and raises it with no appearing problems. He was told by the high speed Petco reptile expert to do this and now its been reenforced as he thinks he has no problems(healthy appearing lizard). And now UVB has become the "gospel" in his thoughts.

The problem lies in that he never realises his UVB only addressed a SYMPTOM of a bigger problem...poor husbendry. He goes on beleaving all is well and never understands HEAT is the issue not UVB. So all the reptile related deciscions he makes are going off bad info. Same with gut loading...one could say what the hell if it makes you feel better but in reality it only muddys the water.

I guess the point is herpers must understand WHY they do this or that....the real meaning /reasoning behind things. Only then can they start to make educated guesses on how to best proceed with their herps.

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