I was just reading on an unnamed forum and came across an ADMIN'S reply about Ball Python care... It absolutely astounded me how someone could come across as being so blatantly stupid. If this offends anyone, I'm sorry, but telling someone to keep their snakes like this is just going to kill an animal or make it where the animal never wants to eat... I would appreciate some comments on this. How in the world can a person with a complete disregard for a snake's basic husbandry be made an Administrator? Here are some quotes.

"All ball python caresheets suck. I've never seen a good one. Being the most commonly kept boid in the US pettrade, it apparently attracted the most noob herp keepers to the keyboard to write caresheets. Since so many people assume that anything published on the internet is gospel truth, these caresheets spread like wildfire. For the record, NO BALL PYTHON THAT ISN"T GRAVID EVER NEEDS OR WANTS A 90 DEGREE BASKING SPOT. 83-84 hot side max...anything down to the low to mid 70s for the cool side. If they have that gradient, they will move around and thermoregulate. Even the finicky wild caughts that never eat for people, will eat within 30 days if they are set up properly. If you provide a 90 degree basking spot, you take away half the cage for the snake because it will never go there. They don't like high temps and will avoid them staying all the time at their true basking temp over on the cool side and then never get a chance to go cool off anywhere unless they have yet another cooler side...which most don't. Luckily though, they are fairly idiotproof in that they adapt well to our errors and are really hard to kill. You can't even really starve one to death since they can go years without eating lol (please don't try this at home kids). For most setups, ball pythons do not need much heating. Just a heatpad on one end of the tank with a hide with a surface temp no higher than the high 80s or whatever it takes to get the air temp one inch above the substrate to 83-84 (I would even stretch this to say that anything above 80 and below 85 is plenty warm enough)...and a hide and waterbowl on the cool side...no lights, no che, no preheat and bake device of any kind. Even though they come from Africa in places where it gets really hot, they stay cool in the wild by going underground. Burrows stay cool. They come out to hunt at night...again, it's much cooler then. They don't play in the scortching sun. Please don't scortch them in their cages."

And also:
" btw...all snakes do better with a night drop in temp. If they are kept in such a way that they can find a comfortable spot to remain 24/7, they will do that and become sedentary. Sedentary snakes develop digestive issues and lose muscle mass from lack of excercise. Cooling at night, even if just a little, requires them to move around in the morning to thermoregulate which helps them move their bowels and keeps their muscle tone."

Ok... Oh my holy snake poo in a handbasket... Why?