This is how I learned everything about keeping my snakes healthy... research.
This forum has a "search" function. I can simply type in whatever I am looking for, and read page after page of forum discussions on the topic. There are also "sections" on husbandry, or other specifics. In those subforum sections, there are "stickies" which are basically a FAQ type of thread, that get referred to over and over.
I started keeping ball pythons 2 years ago, and I have spent literally hundreds of hours reading about ball pythons, husbandry, feeding, heating, humidity, hides, enclosures, breeding, incubating, pooping, you name it. I know for a fact I have spent hundreds of hours sitting on the couch reading about this stuff, using the search forum function and simply reading the threads that interest me. Now granted, I occasionally posted a question to get more specific advice aimed at my particular need, but for the most part, 90% of my posts are actually helping, answering and discussing ball pythons,
because I love them!
I am continually amazed about how lazy the majority of people are on the internet. They can't take 30 minutes of their life to do some very easy online research, but instead want all the information spoon-fed to them. Every day we get a new member posting a new thread like:
"HELP, my ball python won't eat!!!"
There are hundreds, if not thousands of the same posts over and over and over again! I personally find it ridiculous that people can't just skim through the other 5000 threads that have already have ALL THE POSSIBLE ANSWERS they could ever need. Somehow, they cannot find the time or effort to do a quick search, or to do some reading, but instead just join up, don't do any research at all, and then post,
"HELP with my setup." "What size prey should I be feeding?" etc, etc, etc.
Now, granted, this is a social/information forum and all such questions are welcome and almost always get answered by experienced, knowledgeable members. However, in your particular case, you have been belligerent and disrespectful to the community right out of the gate, so it would probably be wise, to lay low and just use the forum as a research tool, instead of asking for spoon fed advice from people who aren't getting paid to help you, and might not want to freely interact with such a trollish attitude, when they might have better things to do with their time.
Just my 2 cents.
Originally Posted by Godzilla78
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