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JLC
at Thu Jan 22 23:10:19 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JLC ]
To emphasize... 3 square feet for 2 AVERAGE size adult balls IS less than ideal, but is functional nonetheless. However, YES (once again) you should feel free to provided more space with the equivalent floor space of a 55 gallon aquarium much better.
So if someone comes here looking for specific advice, why would you offer something that is "less than ideal?" I'm really just curious about the reasoning. It sounds like saying "It's ok if you can't afford to give your snakes the proper housing, they can survive in anything."
Also, I must disagree in discouraging captive breeding of ball pythons. There are still tens of thousands being imported each year. That considered in addition to the rewards received in captive breeding your snakes, I always advise one to breed their ball pythons if they have the desire. These considerations are apparently subjective in nature, and we will all probably never agree. So I say it's your choice.
I didn't discourage captive breeding at all. I simply disagreed with the cavalier attitude of thinking it's "fun" to throw two snakes together to see if they might make babies. Of course breeding animals can be "fun"...but the responsibility involved goes a lot deeper than the "fun" of seeing what happens. I'm sure you didn't mean it to come across the way it did, but it's my belief that if we're giving advice to people, we need to be careful of what we say.
Breeding animals is something that should be done with a great deal of forethought and planning...not on the fly just because you happen to be buying a second snake of the same species.
Here we see the true advantage of the forum... we can disagree all all can contribute in order to find the best answers.
True enough. I'm sure we wouldn't see half as much good advice as we do if people didn't first see something they disagreed with and had to step in. There ARE different ways of doing things, and getting a wide range of opinions can reveal other options and the pros and cons of each. (Such as whether to house snakes together or feed live prey...)
Best wishes to you and your animals....
Judy
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1.0 red cape gopher (Caesar)
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Just to clarify - JLC, Thu Jan 22 23:10:19 2004