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amazondoc
at Sat Jan 30 18:32:10 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by amazondoc ]
>>You are a vet? What states would you tell someone it's fine to keep a retic year round without supplemental heat? I don't think you would ever say that in any state.
You are forgetting, thought, that *ideal* conditions are not the same things as *survivable* conditions. For instance, I would never tell a herp keeper that it is safe to feed their pets wild caught mice -- but native snakes eat em all the time. Herps can survive a lot of things that we would never want to inflict on them in captivity.
>>One would probably not reccommend even keeping a native kingsnake year round without supplemental heat because a captive environment is so different from a natural one.
Right. ----- ----
0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)
2.6 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters
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