I want a list of experts please .
Just make sure you parrot the "right" person.
I want a list of experts please .
Like I said on the other post . I would like the names of the experts here . The school, phd or any other thing that makes anyone person an experts here . This is a bundle of information made by different keepers. What works for one may need to be tweaked to work for you . There is no one way layed out to follow . Take the information add a little common sense and run with it .
I'm going to close this thread by 5p PST this evening. [/B]
Spot on. It appears the admin at the time (quoted in the very first post in this thread) seems to have a liking for Ascott that clearly biases his/her administrating duties.
You got that one right . To answer your other questions . To know who the so called experts are I think it would help . I know one thing if I need help with my Leopards or sulcatas I go to you or Kelly . Plus Ken helps me out also . So I would put you and Kelly down as experts no problem . Yvonne needs to be on the list also . I just really wanted to point out there really isn't a set expert here . So don't take it wrong I really am grateful you are here .Our friend Cowboy Ken is an expert at self-promotion. You should see his thread! Ken, can you link it for us?
Sadly this is a short and lonely list, as no one can match Ken's unique and hard earned title in this category.
From my perspective, it seems the only time "parroting" is called out in a negative light is when people point out Tom's links.
No one has ever come down on someone parroting Yvonne's baby soaks, not that they should..
I just can't recall an instance where people went all "anti parroting" on someone other than when sharing Tom's humid info.
Coincidence? Biased?....curious.
Thanks for liking my post . You don't need a phd to be an expert . I was trying to get someone to say they are . Just to point there isn't any . Like you said this is the best place to learn . But to ask an expert nope . To ask for direction yes . People need to understand there's not one way . You can't just put them in a box with heat and walk away . You have to check try ,check try , ask, try check then one day its working . I like everybody here but Newt! Haha its a very helpful place for a starting point . But you have to tweak and try different stuff . Ok off my soap box .Hi Mike, I like many of your posts. To specifically answer this question about 'experts" I'd suggest that even with a PhD, you'd poke a hole in that POV,'cause they don't have real world experience. Or some other straw man argument. Jacqui once suggested there are no such thing as experts, and certainly not on TFO. I frankly think TFO has the largest collection of chelonian husbandry 'experts' in the world. If you really only define experts as people with PhD's then there are indeed experts by that criteria here on TFO. If people with PhD's and published, well TFO still has experts. If PhD, published, and at least ten ears experience then still, TFO has experts. What criteria would make you give a pass on someone being an expert? No one 'knows it all'. An interesting quote from a fiction writer comes from Robert Hienlein "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." So argument in its rational form is a great tool to learn with. Tit for tat Yes/No is an irrational way to argue.
So, what criteria will satisfy your interest to characterize someone as an expert, once and for all, and I'll 'out them' here on TFO.
I think some confusion may be caused when discussing adults versus babies. I would not keep a baby Russian on damp substrate below 80. But my Russian is an adult and is able to warm up every day. So I think especially for a new tortoise keeper, if it is not very clear the differences between adult and hatchling care then it can get very confusing very quickly. And I think that's why there is confusion as to what is said at times.
Good morning. My practice, as you say, with you has been to try to...work...through...your CRYPTIC syntax and see if you have any information on offer. If so, I attempt to determine voracity, based on either evidence or reference, neither of which you provide. This is not a personal attack, this is a technical dismissal. Biology is not like open mike poetry night, where everybody's opinions are equally valid. You wish to engage in discussion or critique? Great! Then come to play. That means with evidence, reference, or at least logical reasoning (that's the hierarchy in descending order, by the way). Absent that, you're only providing personal musings at best, which are irrelevant, or bad advice, which is dangerous.
Hope I was able to provide some clarity. Have a great day
I don't think blanket statements are being made. I think quite frankly you were reading them as blanket statements. It is clear if a person is talking about a hatchling or an adult from the title or information in the thread and the original question asked.You are absolutely correct.....problem is when a blanket statement is made, then tortoise pay the price....THIS is and has been one of my biggest issues with the high humidity, closed chamber method, in addition to it is not a natural state for the tortoise to grow in...a tortoise does not live its life in this constant high humidity....in an outdoor space a tortoise can move from one micro climate to another with relative ease...in a closed chamber, there is not that choice...again, just one of my biggest issues with the "new" method of forced wet/hot/humid chambers....
This may be, literally, the funniest thing I have read on this forum. I can assure you that there is absolutely no favorable bias towards Angela.
I don't think blanket statements are being made. I think quite frankly you were reading them as blanket statements. It is clear if a person is talking about a hatchling or an adult from the title or information in the thread and the original question asked.