On October 28th we are getting a pacman frog from a reptile Expo. We wanted a bioactive enclosure. After two weeks of tearing down, setting back up, and tweaking I finally have the enclosure to where it will hold consistent and appropriate humidity and temperatures.
I turned to YouTube for a bit of due diligence and all I have to say is, what the hell?!
There are a very large number of tutorials where bioactive appears to mean: we put dirt in it, therefore it is bioactive. I even initially skipped using a drainage layer because of one of the bigger names and found out that wasn't going to work for me.
This was minor compared to the next travesty.
I understand the benefit of feeding videos. What I don't understand is when it gets made into a spectacle. I can live with "here is my pacman eating a nightcrawler," or "here is how you dust crickets with vitamins." What I'm not cool with is here is my pacman vs 17 hamsters. Before anyone even thinks of saying it, there was one where they fed it a live octopus. This isn't normal feeding. And there appear to be ton more of those than there are informational ones.
Just when I was thoroughly fed up with scrolling past all this trash looking for something of value, I stumbled across these 'battle royal" videos where apparently people put 4 or 5 different animals in a box and let them fight. Now you get tarantula vs. scorpion vs centipede vs mouse or whatever. There aren't just a few of these either.
I can't believe YouTube lets stuff like this fly, but there you are. I didn't click on any of it to be clear, thumbnails were enough. I guess the moral of the rant/warning is for every Tom's Big Spiders or Dave's Little Beasties there is someone willing to throw a live mouse in with a T. stirmi for clicks. The worst part is, you can't even filter that stuff out to my knowledge.
I turned to YouTube for a bit of due diligence and all I have to say is, what the hell?!
There are a very large number of tutorials where bioactive appears to mean: we put dirt in it, therefore it is bioactive. I even initially skipped using a drainage layer because of one of the bigger names and found out that wasn't going to work for me.
This was minor compared to the next travesty.
I understand the benefit of feeding videos. What I don't understand is when it gets made into a spectacle. I can live with "here is my pacman eating a nightcrawler," or "here is how you dust crickets with vitamins." What I'm not cool with is here is my pacman vs 17 hamsters. Before anyone even thinks of saying it, there was one where they fed it a live octopus. This isn't normal feeding. And there appear to be ton more of those than there are informational ones.
Just when I was thoroughly fed up with scrolling past all this trash looking for something of value, I stumbled across these 'battle royal" videos where apparently people put 4 or 5 different animals in a box and let them fight. Now you get tarantula vs. scorpion vs centipede vs mouse or whatever. There aren't just a few of these either.
I can't believe YouTube lets stuff like this fly, but there you are. I didn't click on any of it to be clear, thumbnails were enough. I guess the moral of the rant/warning is for every Tom's Big Spiders or Dave's Little Beasties there is someone willing to throw a live mouse in with a T. stirmi for clicks. The worst part is, you can't even filter that stuff out to my knowledge.
