Quote Originally Posted by wilomn View Post
It interests me that so many espouse ONE way of doing things as the ONLY way that is proper when NO other way has been tried.
Who?
I think a good majority of users on this forum eventually "get" that there is no ONE way to do things. I certainly understand that, but from time to time, I like to give recommendations that work for me and many others.

I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything, personally I figure what you do with your snakes is up to you. I just like to know where these people who so freely give advice get that advice from.


It seems that most of them have had, at best, less than half a dozen snakes and have not had them for more than a year or two and are relying on large scale breeders or lousy pet shops to give them the information they then pass on, never having verified any of it, just saying it because someone who does it that way said to.
I like to look at it this way...
Reading forums with experienced keepers helped me out a great deal.

Well, you might say, "don't always believe what you read"...OK, so what do we believe? What works for us? Do I have to try EVERYTHING at least once in order to get first hand experience? or can I not read about someone else's failures and try to learn from that?