You hit the nail right on the head. It's time. Time 90% of beardy owners aren't willing to put into either take the care of them that they need to, or even the time to LEARN the correct ways of treating their animals - again, it's mostly opinions, but I bet if you took an honest poll of all beardy owners in the US, over half of them would say "What's UVB?" or "$7 incandescent bulbs don't give off UVB?"



Btw, that 90% figure, I'm sure it's a LOT less than that on this forum, but what about the people that aren't on here? The people who are being told all the wrong information by the pet stores, "Sure, calci-sand's great, cuz it's 10 bucks a bag", "Yeah full spectrum means UVB", "It won't have much exercise space, but an adult can live in a 20g tank", "Oh yeah, they only eat about a dozen crickets a day... if they start to look a lil skinny, just give 'em a few pinkies, or pack 'em full of waxworms", and those are actual quotes from various pet stores (not just PetSmart & DeathCo.).



Advising somebody to wait longer, giving them more time to research, before breeding, isn't a bad thing. If anything, it might give them time to wake up to the fact that breeding is more costly than not breeding unless you're doing it professionally.



When just a single clutch can go through 10,000 or more crickets in a month, that's a very big expense, not to mention housing them and providing adequate UVB, etc.
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