I should clarify more what i meant about those field herpers with limited experince of today.

Back in the commercial collecting days that is how herpers put food on the table. that is how they fed their families. So do you tghink they went hiking in the woods and picked up a lone kingsnake? NO! They had to dicover the snakes ecology. To find them in large groups. They knew how, when and where. There are a lot of secrets theat will never be given away. You have to EARN those things. And when one does. by that time they will not have raped the land and appreciate what learning about the snakes is all about.

Field herping knowledge today is exactly like the recipe for housing snakes individually. people want to know exactly where to go to find a snake and they want you to point to the exact spot, hill, tree, lake, and exact rock to lift. Then they call themselves field herpers. LOL! The same with captive husbandry. people don't want to learn from the snakes. And it won't be given away. People like FR do things the way they should be taught to further advance herpetoculture. And that is to allow people to work through the problems themselves and not just get a recipe or rock to lift where he told them to. He gives a few short answers and then asks more questions of you.

This is te real part that is missed in herpetoculture today. the internet and people demading answers when in fact they will never learn anything that way. They need to get dirty and sweaty and stress and think. Then you can call yourselve a herpetoculturist or field herper. Otherwise you are still just a child who bought his first TFH book at the pet shop.

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Observing them in a cage by themsleves with set temps and deciding when to feed is hardly natural or healthy for the snakes.

Bluerosy



You are doing what suits you. which is fine, but its not about the animal, its about you. Your requirements.

Frank Retes







www.Bluerosy.com






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Edited on May 30, 2012 at 10:53:42 by PHFaust.

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