Quote Originally Posted by Crotalids View Post
I draw the line at doing things that are clearly impractical. For my rattlesnakes, i'm not exactly going to ship in sand from the US am i. Sand is sand at the end of the day..
Not really. There are many types of sand. Play sand, concrete sand, reptile sand and others.

I know they aren't in the news paper, but some how they've got into his collection.

If you use natural substrate its not hard to eliminate the chance of mites being present. I freeze, and then bake and micro wave all my substrate to make sure anything in there is killed..
Not knowing your friend but one thing that could be the cause of getting mites is not having proper quarantine. Seeing that your snakes got them as well his snakes were not quarantined from your properly.

To be honest, i couldn't care less if people accept it or not. People are set in their ways, and me coming on here without scientific backing isn't going to change that. But because there isn't evidence for it, doesn't give me reason to just provide my snakes with the basic environment does it? We shouldn't just assume because they are eating etc on paper towels they wouldn't benefit from a more interactive enclosure.
Just because you have no proof doesn't mean you can't provide them with the environment that you see fit. At the same time you have no reason to say that the people that keep theirs in tubs or on paper that they have no passion or willingness to do anything.

With that being said, and I know that you don't care, but it's the way that you come across. That you are right and what everyone says is wrong is what people have a problem with. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but at the same time there is no need to have to be right all the time. Having to have the last word all the time that your right is just childish and something I expect from my 8yo but not from a grown adult.