Thats not the problem, there are many approaches to keeping, One is a CONTROL. in this case, keepers take everything natural away from the animals, and force them to do what they tell the animals to do.

The other is to keep animals so you can learn from them. This one is rare. Its actually the reason many of the above say they keep snakes, but then keep them in a totally unnatrual way.

Let me thing. Keep them at 82.8F in the summer, 55.2F in the winter, Place them together two weeks after the first shed, or the day after the second shed. Pull them apart after they copulate TWICE. Then place a little wet box in with the female 8 days after she sheds. Then take the eggs out and put them in a incubator thats set at, 81.5483274723F, and they will hatch in 71 days, three hours, 22 mins.

How dang natural is that???????????????????

Its simply not what they do or what they are designed to do. They actually live in a world where they must go to places that provide their needs. Its called a home range. They must move about that home range to secure all their needs and their needs vary.

Also this home range is in a state of constant change, that is, eachday the weather changes as the year goes on.

The snakes BEHAVIOR is how its done.

The control keepers, take away all ability to make choices. Then give them conditions that are decidedly average and recieve average results. Good on you. Congrats fellas, but what did you learn???????? You followed instructions, but what did you learn?

So what gives you the thought you can actually tell others about these snakes, all you did was follow instructions and forced the animal to live under your rules.

What about their rules????????????

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