People are weirdly, stubbornly defensive of their terrible husbandry practices. I've seen this across the board: people insisting sand is fine for leopard geckos, that it's perfectly okay to give igs extra protein by feeding them pinkies and crickets, keeping turtles in scummy tanks of water and betta fish in bowls, etc. And it's always "Well I've done it for X amount of years and never had a problem!" when in reality their animals don't live for anywhere near as long as they should, and they just shrug, and pass off sudden death as a tragic and surprising thing that just suddenly happened with no way to have predicted. I don't know why it is, but it's so terribly, awfully sad for the animals that they have to suffer slow, unpleasant deaths like that.
