a good soil/dirt substrate that allows for all the essentials (safety, security, moisture, burrowing, egg laying, etc) is not a paint by the numbers thing. you have to LEARN about it to make it work well, but the rewards are definitely worth it.



certainly breeders have had success without a good soil. but can you imagine what they might do with an even better setup?



as for the point about supporting breeders, of course it is dead on. the problem is...



it seems to be one of those mistakes that EVERYONE seems to make at first. in retrospect, it seems so obvious to say "avoid all the hassles, headaches, and death, and buy captive bred from a breeder" but for folks that really are newbies, and can't tell the different between what you and i suggest, and what Melissa Kaplan suggests, or what their local pet store suggests, that WC ("oh yeah, it's captive bred" "live" Uro in the cage available RIGHT NOW makes as much sense as any.



goodness knows i have made plenty of ill informed boneheaded choices in the past, and i have learned from my mistakes, but it seems that folks need to live it to learn it, so we see the same cycle again and again.



the delbaso poster here on the forum is dealing with it right now...



there has been good info posted to this person, and some bad info as well, and they are now buying two WC Uros in a row, so apparently nothing has sunk in, or more likely, they lack the context to make use of what we are saying.



telling someone to buy captive bred from a breeder doesn't help when their local pet store tells them that the WC Uro they just got from "Crap Is Us Importers" is a fine captive specimen...



it is so easy to fall for the okey doke, there is a lot less work and effort in that than to truly do your homework, be patient, and perhaps wait 3 extra months for true captive bred availability...
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