jobi,
Thanks, I really found that interesting. I am curious though, even if husbandry conditions are perfect, does the stress the animal goes through in transit, from wherever, weaken it enough for parasites to become present in huge quantities? Then when put into captivity, does this fix itself? Or does this even actually happen, is it one of those things we are fed and told to believe?
You import your own, so you know the shipping methods better than I, so is it really that bad?

In stores like Pet Co and whatever else, their casualties are caused only by bad husbandry? (I really do plan to try this with the group of coronata, if I should get them.) Even if the animal is weakened and very thin, you think with only hydration and proper husbandry they will recover? Parasites don't weaken them further when that ill? The example of this I see most often is with green anoles. They come to stores in bags with crumpled newsprint by the hundreds. We have always kept them as best as we can, proper housing etc. and yet they sometimes drop like flies. Why do they do this if not from parasites? I didn't mean to turn this into a green anole conversation, but I think you could see the connections to the ideas being discussed.

Thanks for your post, and I am interested to see what you'll say next. This is really interesting to me, I lost my first pair of MHDs to what I accredited for so long to be a parasitic infection. I could think of nothing else that would have done it, the caging was the same as now, I still don't know.


Evan

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