Your comment about the laziness of many posters is dead on. Recently on another forum someone posted a question to the effect of, "Hi, i just did some research and decided that I want this kind of snake, all I need to know are its care requirements and how big it gets and what its temperment is and what it looks like. If you could just post that info here that would be great." That was basically it! Now, I had been researching the same snake before I got one for months, and could have told him the answers even though I didn't own one. I'm not EXPERIENCED per se, but I do know quite a bit about the care requirements and basic temperment of the species just from reading about it.



Another thing is that, in terms of hands-on experience, sometimes a newbie can help a newbie if they're both having the same problem, and one solves it first. I've been in that situation too. And I think that, in that case, sometimes the other newbie can be MORE helpful than an experienced person. A person who has been keeping a herp for 15 years may assume, without meaning to, that the newbie knows certain basic things about a herp's personality that one would have to have been keeping the herp for awhile to know.



..So those are my opinions! (But what is the internet, really, but ads and opinions?) Though I'm a newbie; I could be wrong
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A. Fox

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