he said, when something is wrong, try something. You do not have to know what works, try something and learn whats wrong.

Also many people think I totally agree with Rainier, I don't on specifics, but do on approach. We have different experiences, so specifics will not match. We are different people.

Like the water bowl and hair issues, that are real problems, but in this case, Bluerosy took a bandaid approach instead of a cure. He did fix the immediate problem, but did not investigate far enough to find the cure.

Like with what others are seeing, there is something missing that allows for failure.

In the case of water bowls, xeric snakes in nature do not have access to drinking water, such species as rosys, rarely drink in nature, they conserve water and gain whats needed from their food. Also physics is envolved, warner temps cause more rapid dehydration. Boas are creatures of low temps, so keeping them at what we keep colubrids at will indeed dehydrate them. They do require warm temps to metabolize like other snakes, but resting temps are lower.

For different reasons, so do mexican pits. Like jani, they occur at elevation and are commonly active when very cold. I would think its more a dehydration issue the a hair issue. I did a lot of work with wild thayeri, and observed lots of P.d.jani. They do consume rodents with hair.

Yet, Bluerosy fixed the problem by doing something different.

What is good to determine is, what is actually the snakes abilities, and what is caused by our captive condtions. Then you as a keeper can pick one of many methods to fix the problem/s.

Whether its a bandaid or not is not the problem. its when we start to prejudice the actual snakes with our poor husbandry practices.

Remember, husbandry, is to husband, which means to take are of or support. Not to tell them what to do.

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