if not now before on shear numbers of kept alterna ? I still know ( and I bet you all do to ) of people just keeping large numbers and even what i deem as ridiculous numbers of alterna just to be keeping but with other ideas of past and doesn't apply now. The obvious goal at one time for most multi kept alterna was the market value ( for most people ) that has definitely waned over the years. We know some people that still breeds alterna that will never even sale or trade all of the offsprings of a breeding and successful hatch. I ( and you all probably know as well ) some keepers that are or become over welmed by their collection of alterna ( add other species to this I guess ) and :> let's the collection go down hill, not able to feed as they should, make other priorities or other priorities come up and takes a toll on either the collection itself or breeding aspects that may include the demise of eggs/offsprings and or parent snake/s, have a disease come in because of lack of time or not good husbandry practices such as not quarantined wild caught animals.

Are they wrong, probably not but other than the so called professed thought or even spoken word of " I just LOVE these animals ". my opinion is my opinion that I do not understand the keeping of multi located animals from locations with all of my stated above. Understand that again I do not chastise anybody that does. I just don't or can't see it when it reaches dozen or dozens of species from a locality.
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I may be old , cantankerous, crabby, and cynical, but......

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