Episode 6 - The Tired Debate: Racks vs. Cages
Episode description
Two opposing sides have emerged in this debate; pro racks and anti racks. However, could there be a middle ground? Andy and Riley brainstorm, discuss their experiences, visit some of the pervasive hypotheses, and conjecture about the future of reptile keeping techniques as a result of this ongoing debate.
Scott Borden’s Blog Post About Racks & Cages
Intro:
- Catching up
- Forrest Fanning
Body:
- GH calling out FB on arboreal rack
- Starting the question
- Looking at natural history of normal rack system animals
- UVB blood testing
- The history of rack systems
- When they were first implemented
- How they changed the hobby/industry
- Pros
- Efficiency
- Sterilization
- Observation
- Organization
- Cons
- Visibility
- Esthetics
- Argument
- Negative
- Various species benefits and detriments
- Beardies
- Applications
- How they’ve made positive differences
- How people are utilizing and refining them today
- Current trends towards the future
- What do each of us use
- What types
- For what species
- Experiences
- Good and bad
- Future plans and thoughts
Outro:
- Wrapping up mentioning the ongoing lists of suggestions and hopefully not the audio issues
- How the Australia trip may or may not impact my responses etc and please be flexible and understandable
- Next!
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Intro Music: Old Blue by Chris Haugen
Outro Music: Cats Searching for the Truth by Nat Keefe and Hot Buttered Rum
@30:10 rack quote from Andy
@34:20 some keepers dedicating time to animals in the sun….
@37:00 UVB lighting talk
@46:00 being critical of others
@49:00 debate vs discussion
@52:00 great example of a tub helping a pituophis
@58:00 asking why