I'm not bashing you for speaking to anyone. If what I am trying to tell you is bashing at all, it's just that you discount and alienate "snake keepers" in favor of "lizard keepers" and call snake keepers idiots and to be quite frank, have made quite an idiot of yourself by doing so.
I don't agree with your hotter/shorter theory being "better". It's one way of many to do things. It may be "better in some circumstances for some animals in some occasions but for others, it may be better otherwise. It's a broad stroke once again painted by your very wide paint brush. You have limited experience working with a couple of species and now you want to speak for them all. I have a variety of experience...some very limited, some very extensive and some somewhere in between of a vast variety of species...including venomous, non venomous, fragile and not so fragile ..and even varanids and other lizards though I hate to admit that part
...turts, torts, gators and phibs. My advice to you ...you need to lose that big brush. Reptiles are quirky animals that can't always be lumped into common husbandry practice. What works great for one will kill another. Your quick assumptions about higher temps for shorter periods being beneficial... Some snakes never bask at all. Some crocs bask pretty much all freaking day. Various metabolisms operate and require different things. AND, the two species that you keep...
BCI and Retic are fantastically resilient and forgiving animals.... Especially as adults. Have you ever raised any baby snake to adulthood? didn't think so. Please don't try mucking with the husbandry of more fragile animals.
