Quote Originally Posted by JLC View Post
Here's the problem with this discussion. Your "vent" is an unwillingness of "everyone" to not deviate from care sheets. But at the same time, you defend care sheets by saying if folks follow them, they should be fine. So why the vent?
The vent is people saying you can't deviate from the care sheets. That is what I have been saying all along. I said keeping snakes like the care sheet says will be fine for your snake. However people need to know you can deviate from it. I am just tired of people saying an ambient of 75 will kill the snakes. I am tired of people saying you can't incubate at 85. I am tired of people saying you have to have a day/night cycle. It has been proven many many many times over that it is not detrimental to keep balls like this. Yet as you can see some are stuck on the care sheets and will not even consider anything else. I still feel 80 ambient and a day/night cycle are not the healthiest way to keep balls. I however said they will do fine also. It has been proven they do fine both ways. I do not recommend new people keeping an ambient in the high 60s. However when I was running that cold I had balls on the cold side. The girls did great in those temps I had very few slugs. My new house is insulated very well and I don't get that cold anymore and my slug numbers went up. The snakes know what they need better then any of us.