i only read a little of the thread below, but what I read was interesting. Some folks are trying things and having fun and some having nice results.
In many cases below the stimulation is for the keeper, and that is a very good thing. Anything we do to gain interest in our CAPTIVES is a good thing. Anything we do to learn more is a good thing as well.
Sadly, some I posts I read are very narrow minded. Things like, "it would be hard for a large collection". Again, those folks are extremists. That is, that old one way or another. Because you cannot do them all the same, does not mean you cannot do any or some or half or most, or a few. Those with large collections do not have to treat them all the same. In fact, to learn you must not treat them all the same. To learn means, you have to treat them differently.
To learn you test, you must use different approaches. If you find something that you feel is absolutely needed, IN YOUR MIND, and you have to do that something to the whole collection. Then it must be very important. Then go for it, if you have too many snakes, fix that.
Many times those with lots of snakes have commented about the folks with one or a few snakes. Saying such things as, remember how much fun it was to only have a few and the joy you recieved from that. That type of statement is very very telling. And that too is easily cured. Have fewer snakes and have more fun.
This brings us back to the point, if keeping them is not so much for profit, that it must be for our own entertainment. So let the animals entertain you.
I know, I did this backwards again. So I will now go forward.
With the snakes, and this "Retes" stack thing. There are many ways and materials you can do it with. What you will learn is, The snakes are like you. They are very prejudiced. They do have things and materials they are drawn to. If You use the wrong material, or your stack ends up not being what they want. They simply ignore it.
Below someone said, my this species did this and my that species did that. but my other species perferred the ground. While that may be true, its also more about the snakes prejudice, it does lot recognize what you did. Keep trying it until it does. One test does not tell you anything. One test is a start.
Folks, before you start to come to conclusions, Try lots of things. If you are interested and want to ask what has been tried and what that resulted it, please ask. The key is to keep in interesting for you. And try to understand, these snakes are prejudiced and do require certain things that are normal parts of their lives. Cheers
