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a153fish
at Tue Apr 12 16:56:00 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by a153fish ]
Rainer one of the things that sets me off many times when I read your posts, is that you don't just say this is my opinion. You come across like your way is the best and only way. Also you tell newbies to throw 20 pinkies in the snake cage and see what happens. Well I can tell you all twenty probably won't get eaten, and many of the pinks may go to waste. I don't know how smart it is to keep refreezing them and using them again? But maybe it more in the way you present your point, like you are the floridana King and all must bow to you. I have been keeping and breeding sankes for over 20 years myself. I have kept Kings together and they did eat each other. They were not starving imo. But what happens when life crisis arises? Maybe illness or a death in the family? Things get a little hectic, and maybe the snakes have to go a week or two with out food? Will they start looking at each other with hungry eyes then? Also how can you know if a snake has skipped a few meals, and maybe stressing for some reason. In large groups it's very hard to catch these little clues before the snakes start getting seriously ill. Also breeding records! How can you know what snakes actually bred? What if you get a new morph pop out of a bin? You might know which female laid the egg, but good luck figuring out which male did the job. All these are very good reasons not to keep snakes in large groups, and feeding them together is just asking for trouble. Again if you loose a snake or two from thousands, maybe you won't cry over it, but a newbie who just has one or two pairs, it would be pretty harsh. I have seen you many times tell newbies what to do. I always try to say this is my opinion, from experience and I err on the side of caution! I have done some of the things you preach, and it didn't go so well for me. I have seen two snakes go after the same mouse and saw one start to swallow the others head before I intervened. So have others here, that is why some of us go bizerk when you give newbies advice like that. Remeber not everyone has thousands of snakes.
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I ber to differ. - a153fish, Tue Apr 12 16:56:00 2011