Not everyone agrees that uncontrolled harvest of wild reptiles is a problem.
- "Florida has the world's worst problem with invasive reptiles and amphibians," scientists said as they examined the carcass of the largest python ever found in the Everglades: 17.5-feet long, 12-inches wide, 164.5 pounds.
When purchasing sand, you can use chinchilla sand (NOT chinchilla dust, this can cause respiratory problems), or some reptile sands.
The case resulted from the convergence of two public health problems, researchers said: first, that reptile pets, like snakes, lizards and turtles, often carry salmonella and can spread it to their owners, and second, that platelets can transmit infection.
The only thing experts agree on is that the source of the problem is South Florida's booming exotic reptile trade.
The problem is, even some other fossil reptiles have evolved some filaments too (including the flying pterosaurs), so a kind of simple filament might easily have evolved multiple times.
Exotics–reptiles, even lions (Texas has a well-publicized problem with people keeping wild cats as pets)–make up about 8%.
Not so the illegal trade in birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and fish of Central and South America -- a problem of epidemic proportion.
Do research, nearly all problems that can occur with any reptile are caused by lack of proper care.
He told CBC News the real problem is not him having hundreds of reptiles in his care, but the people who keep taking shitty care of them in the first place mainly pet stores that keep breeding reptiles they can't take care of.
