That is why it is important to read actual books and focused/in depth discussions not just basic care sheets and videos. The latter sources give you a general sense of what to buy, how to select a healthy animal, typical temperament, what it eats etc. But there is a lot more to learn than that! I am still researching and learning as much as I can about my reptile pets.
ETA this is not a criticism. YouTube videos and internet posts are a great way to start your research and figure out what animal might suite you. But I have noticed that a lot of the popular sites and videos contain the same fairly basic info. To really get a good understanding though, you eventually have to dig deeper. In my experience, books typically offer more detailed info.
Thanks! This is helpful. I’ll definitely have to get some books maybe. I think I might have one actually. I will have to look. I know I have some small animal ones I found yesterday, like gerbils and guinea pigs, but not sure if I have one for geckos or not.
But anyways, I could definitely do some more research aha although that said, I didn’t just look at like
Petco sheets or anything like that, I don’t trust those things haha
I was reading like articles and actual reptile sites and stuff and also a lot of the info came from actual reptile owners because I was on a blog type site thing when I did most of the research so I read stuff they posted and/or asked questions and learned that way and same for a lot of the stuff I learned about fish, small animals, birds, dogs, most things actually haha I thought it was good info considering a lot of came from owners and/or corrected common mistakes and misconceptions but clearly I need to do even more research haha
And btw, I didn’t take it as criticism, you’re right, I definitely need to do more research and there’s definitely a lot I don’t know still, but I do also know some stuff that some people might not like about MBD and never using sand and now the brumating so that’s a good step I think haha but definitely still very basic.
I guess I just figured the Internet would have more in depth information somewhere since everybody uses it these days and almost no one uses real books anymore haha seems the more detailed information should be more readily available! But maybe it is if you know how to look. Idk. But it does seem like a book would probably be the best place and/or easier cause it’s all in one place instead of having to dig to find different info in different places.
I think I need to find a book.
But then again books aren’t necessarily always great either because you have no way of knowing if it’s a good/reliable book or author or not. Of course it’s probably usually more reliable than articles if they were able to make a book but still. Don’t know for sure haha
Sorry for yet another novel.
I really need to work on that.
This more general than I would like. It is not bad as a starting point but you are better off in the long run looking up info specific to your type of animal.
Thanks! This is very helpful.
Yea.. why wouldn’t I agree with it? Haha.
Idk, I was just making sure it was good information and not anything blatantly wrong with it or anything haha there’s a lot of false information out there these days, anyone can write anything, so I just wanted to make sure the information in it was right haha
So thanks!
