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Originally Posted by red ink
Contradictory statements... First you acknowledge there are multiple substrates labelled as "sand".... and "maligned" as being dangerous. On your next post you call the causality of them being reason for impaction a myth.
We are going around in circles here... and I have been trying to get you to see the point so I will just be blunt about it.
Do not make sweeping statements about a fallacy when you do not have evidence about it.
As I sated natural or not.. some species of reptiles should not be on sand (carpet pythons for one).
Be succinct in what you are saying as ironically, that's how myths get started. So if you mean "sand" as a natural substrate... say that. By your own admission plenty of products are called sand which are actually dangerous, therefore not a myth in the potential harm they can cause.
As I've already stated:
"Being dismissive about the so called "myth" is just as bad as not knowing anything about particulate substrate husbandry. To simply make a sweeping statement about sand use (and the dangers it may pose) being a myth is rather short sighted."
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They aren't contradictory statements. I also stated several posts ago that I was talking about natural sand, but you said that the point was void. I should've have been clear about it in my OP, but I didn't expect somebody to come along and blow it out of proportion.
And I've acknowledged that some species don't do well on sand. However, some species don't do well on aspen, or any other substrate for that matter. But ironically, people don't generalize those substrates as being dangerous in the same way that they do sand. And as I have stated many times, if an animal that doesn't belong on sand is housed on it and happens to ingest and become impacted, that is a husbandry issue. Just as it would be a husbandry issue if a snake wasn't given the proper humidity and developed a RI.
You are correct in saying that this discussion is going in circles. If you want to keep discussing this, I'd prefer we did so in private.
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