OK I keep getting flack for keeping my snakes in a rack system

[RoseyReps]

Hence my "Edit" line Crotalids, I retracted my first assumption, I left it in text because I would not want one to assume I was trying to hide my first assumption.

And I will jump in here, not on the off topic debate I was flaring, but on what you stated to Deborah.

Just because a species is generally an easy keeper, doesn't mean that they don't have specific requirements and notable tendencies. I believe, and I'm not Deborah, so this is just what I took from it, that she was trying to say you are basing your opinion on what is best for a Ball Python based on zero experience. Telling people what or how to keep an animal, that you have no experience with personally, is generally frowned upon.

I would also add, that just because they are a starter snake, doesn't mean they don't require knowledge. Again, look at the hundreds of thousands of ball pythons that end up given away, or at shelters, or rescued, or dead, because the person didn't have the knowledge required to care for them properly. Or if they did, they didn't care enough to do so, which is an entirely different beast on it's own.

Any animal you take responsibility for requires knowledge. Even a little goldfish, hamster, dog, cat etc.

Before I acquired my first ball python, I had no idea that an UTH required a thermostat, that BPs required 50-60% humidity, that 2 hides are best, or that they are basically really pretty pet rocks in reference to activity levels. I learned these things before I got my first bp because I wanted to make sure I was taking care of my animal properly. But it required me learning, if I hadn't gone looking for the information, my bp would be suffering now because of it. So yes, it requires a bit more than half a brain cell. Not hots by any means, but a knowledge base none the less.

Edit: Deborah beat me in reply swiftness. Oh well