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Old 14-09-2012, 05:07 PM   #21
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Does anyone on here know anything about warm and cold blooded animals?
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Old 14-09-2012, 05:09 PM   #22
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Does anyone on here know anything about warm and cold blooded animals?
No don't think so...
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Old 14-09-2012, 05:15 PM   #23
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Been trying to drill the point into the heads of some morons for as long as I've been using the internet... still no joy.

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Old 14-09-2012, 05:19 PM   #24
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Oh, the irony.
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Old 14-09-2012, 05:25 PM   #25
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Been trying to drill the point into the heads of some morons for as long as I've been using the internet... still no joy.
you telling me it is not as simple as hot blooded can create heat to keep warm etc, cold blooded can not, so uses heat sources, like sun, to warm up to get metabolism etc going?
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Sense of humour bypass.
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Old 14-09-2012, 05:34 PM   #27
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This is why heat and hydration are the two most important components in reptile husbandry... nutrition follows after those.

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This is why heat and hydration are the two most important components in reptile husbandry... nutrition follows after those.
well duh really, what I said is like secondary school biology stuff, net exactly advanced...
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Old 14-09-2012, 05:41 PM   #29
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Not many tortoise keepers seem to be able to grasp that basic concept.

...hence the questions on rate of growth... winding down this time of year... among other questions related to temperature.

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I think you could be over simplifying Ed...
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