What i realized..

[Lizardlicks]

Uh, you immediate aggressiveness, and tendency to read blunt truth as an attack are what's putting you in the red. Your responses to people who are trying to help you get the basic husbandry of your original snakes right, and to stop and THINK about what you're trying to accomplish are what is affecting your current and future reputation both on this particular board, and in the community in general. The snakes are your pets, yes, that's true for most of us here, even the big names. We all got started because we LOVE these animals, they are important to us, and bring joy into our lives. We want nothing but the best for all snakes, and the members here strive everyday to take THEIR TIME and THEIR HARD EARNED KNOWLEDGE and give it to people FOR FREE in order to accomplish that. What you do with it is up to you, but throwing it back in our faces isn't winning you any friends.

And you're wrong about this not being a hobby. The second you decided to breed your animals and sell the offspring, your pets became the backbone of your HOBBY BUSINESS. If you want that to succeed, you need to take time and actually listen to what the people here have to say, even if you don't like the way they say it. If some one is tossing you shade, suck it up and be the bigger person. Not being petty and vindictive, acting with grace and humility, these things will go the extra mile and a half when it comes time to build a costumer base and find your babies new homes.

Now for the tough love. It took you three separate threads to finally absorb ONE piece of advice here, then you make this thread with the attitude of a teenager who finally cleaned his room. You want a cookie for that? Too bad. It wasn't even the housing or husbandry advice you listened to, you know, the part that will keep your snakes alive, happy and healthy for the nearly 30 years of their lifespan? A yet you're still making plans to add more snakes, to make those snakes reproduce, then hatch the eggs and house the babies. Every time someone as tried to offer solutions for quick and easy corrections, you come back complaining it's too much space or money. But you want to add more snakes? If you can't keep the ones you have well, how do you expect to get anywhere? It's not only a matter of the health and safety of your animals, current and future, but also the fact that snakes simply won't reproduce if conditions aren't right. They aren't mammals, you can't throw a boy and a girl together and wait for the girl to go into heat then keep her in a warm closet with a blanket. This stuff is finicky work that takes a dedication of time, space, learning, and yes, at least some money. If you want people to drop the money thing, maybe you should stop throwing at us how poor and hard strapped you are every time someone suggests a husbandry fix.

See, the thing is, we aren't out to get you. We don't want to see you or your snakes fail. We don't want to see you toss a lot of time and cash down the drain, but if you have a hard time believing that everyone here has responded with nothing but the most honest intention of helping you, no matter how bluntly put the advice, then I'm not sure there is any hope for you. So. Go on then. Do whatever it is you think is best, however you think you can best do it. But if you want to fly in the face of combined decades of experience or common sense, don't be surprised if failing is exactly what you do, leaving both you and your animals in an even worse situation to boot.