The magazine is just getting worse and worse.
I just want to point out some of the retarded things this magazine has. These are simply my opinions so feel free to share yours. I would be speaking on will be the May 2008 issue.
I would like to start with the "show us your stuff" portion f the magazine. This months was a real gem. A water dragon enclosure that IMO is not very good at all, and certainley not deserving of any prizes/rewards. They have had decent set ups in the past but the last few issues have been things like this one (page 8 if you have the magazine) Rewarding people for run of the mill pet store set ups is a shame and sends out the wrong message about reptile housing. People should see images that inspire them to do something more for their aniamls not a 55 gallon tank with a red basking light,gravel for substrate and an ultra sonic fogger (I could go on and on about how I would set up a water dragon but dont have all day to type)
Next
The herpetological queries section
page 14 in this issue.
Wow this is mind numbing. The "Ships Safely" article is ok, but the "NEW Blue" article is ridiculous. A simple google search would have told this person all the answers they needed. but that's fine the person didnt know anything about it. But why on earth would reptiles magazine publish this??? it's just purposterous.
Read it you'll see what I mean.
now it gets even worse.
A conversation about iguanas being over shadowed by bearded dragons in the pet trade???? who cares!!! That is a good thing that captive bred animals are taking the place of farmed iguanas.
then the most retarded "query" of the month
"what is a hemipenal bulge"
durrrrrrrrrrrrr, why would they even bother to respond and publish this. why not answer some Care advice questions about a species not regulalry seen or answer something that isnt almost common knowledge to anyone except the newest of newbies
There's also an article about False water cobras written by our good freind Ken Foose who if you look in the good guy bad guy forum on here and on the fauna BOI, I have had some run in's with about selling colombian tegus as argentines at argentine prices, fun stuff.
There's A NICE "REPTI GEAR" article this month too. showing 4 different types of mercury vapor bulbs with the makers description of them. NOw if this magazine were about promoting the best products for reptile keepers they might have invested in a comprehensive study on these bulbs against each other. Then again that would alienate companies with sub par products and the magazine would lose valuable advertising dollars that keep us in great supply of great article such as the "retailer spotlight"
or "who's who in reptiles" which are pretty horrible if I do say so myself.
umm I know there's more that I wanted to comment on but cant seem to find them through the pages and pages of ads.
I just want to point out some of the retarded things this magazine has. These are simply my opinions so feel free to share yours. I would be speaking on will be the May 2008 issue.
I would like to start with the "show us your stuff" portion f the magazine. This months was a real gem. A water dragon enclosure that IMO is not very good at all, and certainley not deserving of any prizes/rewards. They have had decent set ups in the past but the last few issues have been things like this one (page 8 if you have the magazine) Rewarding people for run of the mill pet store set ups is a shame and sends out the wrong message about reptile housing. People should see images that inspire them to do something more for their aniamls not a 55 gallon tank with a red basking light,gravel for substrate and an ultra sonic fogger (I could go on and on about how I would set up a water dragon but dont have all day to type)
Next
The herpetological queries section
page 14 in this issue.
Wow this is mind numbing. The "Ships Safely" article is ok, but the "NEW Blue" article is ridiculous. A simple google search would have told this person all the answers they needed. but that's fine the person didnt know anything about it. But why on earth would reptiles magazine publish this??? it's just purposterous.
Read it you'll see what I mean.
now it gets even worse.
A conversation about iguanas being over shadowed by bearded dragons in the pet trade???? who cares!!! That is a good thing that captive bred animals are taking the place of farmed iguanas.
then the most retarded "query" of the month
"what is a hemipenal bulge"
durrrrrrrrrrrrr, why would they even bother to respond and publish this. why not answer some Care advice questions about a species not regulalry seen or answer something that isnt almost common knowledge to anyone except the newest of newbies
There's also an article about False water cobras written by our good freind Ken Foose who if you look in the good guy bad guy forum on here and on the fauna BOI, I have had some run in's with about selling colombian tegus as argentines at argentine prices, fun stuff.
There's A NICE "REPTI GEAR" article this month too. showing 4 different types of mercury vapor bulbs with the makers description of them. NOw if this magazine were about promoting the best products for reptile keepers they might have invested in a comprehensive study on these bulbs against each other. Then again that would alienate companies with sub par products and the magazine would lose valuable advertising dollars that keep us in great supply of great article such as the "retailer spotlight"
or "who's who in reptiles" which are pretty horrible if I do say so myself.
umm I know there's more that I wanted to comment on but cant seem to find them through the pages and pages of ads.