Ed, we are asking you to share what your research and experience has taught you. You came on and said you'd bet my older sulcatas pyramided because my temps were wrong, but you never said what the right temps are. Do you really expect every single one of us to raise dozens of hatchlings, for ten years, in an experimental fashion, with different temps to see which temp works the best? Isn't the point of this forum to share information about the best way to keep all of our tortoises as healthy as possible? That's what the point is for me.
You clearly know more and have more experience that most of us, but you want us to somehow earn the knowledge by wasting hours of our time searching through tens of thousands of old posts for something we may never find and have no idea how to look for? I'm happy to do a search. Can you at least give us the title of the thread to look for?
We will all eventually figure it out, as you have, but do you wish all of our tortoises to suffer the consequences of trial and error, as yours have?
Good point mc. I'll be as precise as possible when it comes to describing exactly what I do for these guys.
My main objective, however, is to publicly demonstrate the difference between raising them dry (all of my current and past adults) and raising them "wet" (my current hatchlings), with all other variables remaining as constant as possible. I'm no scientist and three hatchlings does not a viable study make. I'm just trying to further tortoise knowledge a bit. If nothing else, the whole thing is just for my own edification. If someone else is interested or can somehow benefit from what I'm doing here, all the better.
You clearly know more and have more experience that most of us, but you want us to somehow earn the knowledge by wasting hours of our time searching through tens of thousands of old posts for something we may never find and have no idea how to look for? I'm happy to do a search. Can you at least give us the title of the thread to look for?
We will all eventually figure it out, as you have, but do you wish all of our tortoises to suffer the consequences of trial and error, as yours have?
mightyclyde said:I am excited about the experiment. I think it has possibilities. However, it seems that duplicating the experiments will be difficult for anyone else, as none of it seems to be measurable in any way. "frequent" mistings, "high" humidity, soak(s)... can mean anything. Completely subjective.
Good point mc. I'll be as precise as possible when it comes to describing exactly what I do for these guys.
My main objective, however, is to publicly demonstrate the difference between raising them dry (all of my current and past adults) and raising them "wet" (my current hatchlings), with all other variables remaining as constant as possible. I'm no scientist and three hatchlings does not a viable study make. I'm just trying to further tortoise knowledge a bit. If nothing else, the whole thing is just for my own edification. If someone else is interested or can somehow benefit from what I'm doing here, all the better.