So my (ex) owned a bp for about 15 months, after holding her once December of last year I became very fascinated with snakes and got one of my own a month ago. After learning so much through video and all you nice people on this site. I realized there were so many things he did that weren’t correct. Big one was using a heat pad without a thermostat, using those cheap petco non-digital thermometers, not feeding the right size etc I was able to teach him what I learned about thermostats, probes etc etc.
he ordered the things needed and set up his tank and told me this Saturday I can come over and “test out” his husbandry. As in give him my input on it.
Immediately i asked “where’d you place thermostat probe?”
He said he placed it IN the tub under the substrate.From my acquired knowledge I’ve learned this is wrong, and the probe should go under the enclosure sandwiched between the enclosure and heat pad bc the snake has the possibility of peeing or pooping on it and burning themselves.
I’ve told him this several times so I said “no!”
He is very stubborn at times and I told him this isn’t a place where he should be stubborn bc it’s not about what we think* or want* it’s about what our snake needs.
He then replied,
“It’s not about being stubborn you become obsessive and go overboard with thing based on text book knowledge and that’s not how things always work out. There’s ppl that don’t have nearly HALF the items we have and have healthy BP’s. It’s not about me and what I want for her tank it’s what works based on research and evidence I’ve found. There’s other factors involved when deciding where to place the probe. Glass vs plastic. Size of the enclosure etc I decided to put her probe in the substrate on the hot side based on research not because it’s just what I want. I tried your way the first time and immediately the pad (with aluminum foil) was reading 90-92 on the thermostat but pushing out 104+ with the temperature gun. Through trial and error I got the best settings the way I setup her enclosure and have been checking temps since last night until today. So stop calling me stubborn when it comes to this as if I’m just ignoring your advice. This is why I just do shyt my way. If she dies,is sick or anything. It’s on me and only me. Instead of taking your textbook perfect knowledge opinion on it”
And I’m astonished lol.
I was trying to help him better take care of his pet and letting him know putting the probe inside holds a risk of the snake being burned. Never said I was an expert. I’m far from it.
He ended up telling me he’s tired of the stress I put him through and that he’s done. (We’ve been having other problems) but yeah. Thought it was kinda funny out of all the other problems we’ve had THIS is what it took to break up.
Anyways, I don’t have any other herplovin friends so I decided to share ha. Sorry the text is weird
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