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

[Crotalids]

Crotalids -

What is the point of coming into a debate with a condescending tone and a closed mind? You're simply coming here on a ball python forum with ZERO experience keeping ball pythons and telling keepers with hundreds of years of collective experience that your way is superior to theirs. You don't even have enough of an open mind to entertain that maybe what you do for your hots doesn't apply to ball pythons. Not only that, you're a hypocrite (in my opinion... Which to use your logic, since it's MY opinion, I'm right and there's no debating that...)

If snakes can successfully live in the wild, we should be able to create a similar environment in captivity that they thrive in. Simple, there is no need for these simplistic enclosures that disregard what the habitat is like where the snakes originate.

Show me how i'm a hypocrite?

I've never kept a snake in a non naturalistic enclosure, or a lizard/gecko for that matter. Isn't that the point i've been arguing? So how can i be a hypocrite. It is indeed your opinion, but i can try to change your opinion - i'm not offended.

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People have tried to explain to you the alleged benefits of keeping BALL PYTHONS in rack systems with small, tight tubs, but you're acting like a small child who is plugging his ears after he hears something that he doesn't like. Not to mention, some of these people have been keeping ball pythons for decades upon decades.

Your attitude is completely abrasive and the superiority complex that you seem to be exhibiting is not helping your case. I GUARANTEE YOU that if you came in here with the attitude that I posted in my previous post (the positive, non-judgemental one) you would be getting a very warm reception and nice conversations from the people in this community.

Something tells me you don't have the capacity to have a positive, non-judgemental attitude, though.

So how is it people manage to keep Royals in naturalistic set ups then? Any snake will thrive, given the correct set up. I guarantee you, if i were to buy a royal python right now and put it in a Viv as a baby i will have it feeding. Because my set up will be correct. Maybe i will.

That's because by definition and design, a rack system isn't supposed to be "spacious". What are you looking for? Someone who has a rack full of 55 gallon tubs? My enclosures in my racks are size-appropriate for the animals they contain. When the snake begins to "outgrow" their tub, they're upgraded to the next appropriate size.

Exactly, so a rack is designed to cram in as many snakes as you possibly can. Lazy snake or not, lazy snakes do utilize the space given at some point if given the opportunity.