Itsnowingcorns said:
This whole thread is really ridiculous... Can't all of you just give him some stern advice without having to catch him out and make a mockery of him?
I think Standard is the only person with brains on this thread, maybe all of you should use your knowledge of corn snakes to help others and prevent deaths like these.
Can you all stop your flaming now?
In the early stages of this thread, we did try. It obviously didn't work because he has yet to admit he needs to re-evaluate his husbandry methods. Go back to the page right before this where he quotes me and asks something along the lines of "What makes you think I can't care for snakes properly?" The answer to that is the basis of this whole thread...
I can't speak for everyone, but I don't think RA can care for corns (or snakes in general) properly because three died in 2 weeks, and who knows how many before that. Of these 3 most recent ones, they were all husbandry related problems.
Snake 1: Drowned in a water bowl that had a lid on it because the hole wasn't in the right place to allow the snake to get out. From the sounds of it, he didn't have the bowl set up properly for keeping a lid on it because he hasn't said anything about having overflow holes in the side (which were described by somebody else near the beginning of this thread)
Snake 2: It was a house snake. If I remember right, he posted something like "does anybody know how to care for house snakes? I'm getting one tomorrow and I want to breed them." No research apparently. He also apparently didn't have its viv set up when he got it because he kept it in a small enclosure which he then put inside a viv for another snake. Somehow, that snake got out into the bigger enclosure or the other one got in, because the house snake got eaten. That's just irresponsibility on his part.
Snake 3: Died while soaking...which means that something wasn't right anyway. Maybe it had mites, maybe the humidity was low, who knows...but if you read the second post on this thread, you'll see that other people questioned why it would be soaking in the first place. But with that aside, there's also this new revelation about maybe it got into some chemicals. It would've really had to get in them (like, inhaled or otherwise ingested them) for it to have any effect. It's not like this was an amphibian that relies on cutaneous respiration and the chemicals just infiltrated the body that way. But maybe it didn't die from exposure to chemicals, we don't know that yet. But what this DOES tell me is that, again, his husbandry methods were not up to par because the snake was able to escape in the first place.
So, Rep_Addict, this is why I don't believe you can care for snakes properly. Do what you want with yours (and you obviously do), but I will have to be very hard-pressed for help to take any advice from you for a very, very long time. I didn't have a problem with you until you started lying at every possible turn. Regardless of when you posted with JakeTheSnake last, you were still involved with lies then because you were having to use a second name. You said you lost your password for one of them, but you still managed to use both names.
If you care for your snakes as much as you say you do, you'll take our advice instead of just arguing for the sake of posting something. I don't know how you could even say a thing like this:
Just reading through this. Based on what facts makes you think I can't care for a corn properly. I told my temps, my housing, and my feeding. What evidence makes me a snake killer??? What makes you believe that this corn died because of me.
There is also a reason why I don't think you can take care of other snakes besides corns. You can't care for corns (aka "Beginner snakes") properly, so I very seriously doubt you're any better at caring for the more advanced species.
