Reptile Room Podcast

Episode 6 - The Tired Debate: Racks vs. Cages

Episode Summary

This week we beat the dead horse of one of the most tired debates in recent herpetoculture: Racks vs. Cages. Ever since the inception of rack systems for the large scale breeding of snakes, there has been an ongoing debate of the ethics of utilizing this caging system.

Episode Notes

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