Anyone ever tried Reptilinks?

[joeysgreen]

That is a very good additional point Rush. I'll bring it back to the dog example I used earlier in the thread; Dogs that are fed kibble their entire lives, no matter how great nutritionally that food is, are more susceptible to pancreatitis after a fatty meal (stealing table scraps or finding roadkill), and more likely to get GI upset if they eat spoiled food (roadkill, garbage). Now I'm not saying to feed road kill and garbage, just pointing out that a finely tuned GI system isn't as accommodating to dietary extremes. I don't think this is documented in reptiles, but is that because it doesn't happen or because of the lack of documentation in reptiles?

[Rushthezeppelin]

That is a very good additional point Rush. I'll bring it back to the dog example I used earlier in the thread; Dogs that are fed kibble their entire lives, no matter how great nutritionally that food is, are more susceptible to pancreatitis after a fatty meal (stealing table scraps or finding roadkill), and more likely to get GI upset if they eat spoiled food (roadkill, garbage). Now I'm not saying to feed road kill and garbage, just pointing out that a finely tuned GI system isn't as accommodating to dietary extremes. I don't think this is documented in reptiles, but is that because it doesn't happen or because of the lack of documentation in reptiles?

Really tough to say. Perhaps though the fact that some of the largest species of snakes can eat meals that are enormous and take sometimes half a year or more to digest is telling who knows. I'm sure small oxen are rotten in a couple of weeks in a wild retics belly lol..but they do fine (well as long as nothing spooks them into regurging lol). Of course does that mean captive retics can do the same? Can that be extrapolated to all snakes? Then you also have the case of blood pythons that while eating smaller meals will sometimes take half a year to take a huge dump....and most of that half year they are sitting in a stagnant ammonia/nitrate/piss filled pool......Who knows.