Plastic rubs/ tubs - Cause for concern ??

[zina10]

For such a study to work, it has to be controlled, all the time, all the animals, over years.

For example HE will have to keep a large number of animals that all came from the same place or method or raising, from healthy parents, from the same breeder. He will have to quarantine ALL of them. Away from one another. To make sure he starts on a clean slate.

Than ALL of those animals will need to kept in the same exact tub setup. Actually he will need a few different tub setups, but a large number of animals for each kind of setup. He will also have to keep a large number of animals from the same group, bred and raised the same way, quarantined the same way, in glass tanks or whatever he says cures animals. Again, in a few different setups.

Then..he will have to feed that very large number of animals the same way, in the same area, same everything (aside from their actual setup). For years. Then....IF some of the "tub" animals get sick, they will need to be tested. And treated. All the same. Then returned to the tubs. If they will get sick again (re-current) they will all have to be tested. Treated. Returned to tub.

THEN..if those same animals get sick AGAIN, they need to be tested, treated and then set up in the different glass viv setups. Then, if ALL those animals that got sick over and over again, in the different tub setups (mind you, correctly set up ones) suddenly miraculously get better (tested over a long period) he may have a point.

I doubt he did any such thing, though.

Meanwhile you have countless of breeders and hobbyist that have kept hundreds of thousands of snakes in tubs and, oh wonder, they do just fine. Usually far better then the ones kept in glass tanks.

But again, tubs can be done wrong, glass tanks can be done right. Not saying thats not true.

Just saying that I doubt very seriously that he has done any kind of valid study, because that would involve years of carefully set up places and monitoring. On a very large and extremely strict scale.

Most likely he got sick animals from people. They kept them in tubs. Probably incorrectly set up tubs, or incorrect husbandry. He then put them in glass tanks under HIS supervision, meaning set up right, and voila. Animal gets better.

I have a feeling this is all about husbandry done wrong and husbandry done right.