What is happening here lately?
I'm puzzled when things like this occur. It shows that not a shred of research has taken place on the part of the OP. If there was, it was ignored or not retained at all.
Reptiles have been imported for decades and the early importers and keepers went through years and years of trial and error to eventually figure out how to get wild caught snakes to stay alive, breed and eventually thrive.
After all of that we are lucky enough to have almost every species you could ask for being successfully captive bred.
SEVERAL extremely well respected breeders have written books giving all of us the information needed to not only keep our animals, but how to breed them, and extend their lives to the maximum limits. These books come backed by field studies and go into the biology of the animals.
THE COMPLETE BALL PYTHON
THE COMPLETE BOA CONSTRICTOR
THE COMPLETE CARPET PYTHON
Those above, are just 3 books I thought of with hundreds of pages about everything one would want and need to know about keeping snakes.
In every book the message is pretty clear about NOT keeping snakes like the OP is doing.
This very board has quality information readily available for all to learn from.
I was tempted to not even post as all of the comments before my post sum it up and sum it up well.
This is a quality chat board, and one of few still in existence and going strong. There are still many members here that are filled with knowledge and can be very helpful to others.
The original post here does not reflect how the quality keepers I know here keep snakes, or how the board recommends they be kept.
If anybody new is looking at attempting a similar practice, please don't. Its absolutely the WRONG way to do things.
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