Boa Bubbles

Can I just say that I’m extremely disapointed in people? As most of you know I’m an animal lover and an aspiring Reptile Breeder. I watch Brian Barczyk’s vlogs and I look up to him as a reptile breeder. So, as I got bored I decided to look up his name on Tumblr to see some cool stuff but instead there were countless amounts of people hating on him and BHB and I am just disappointed. I saw maybe two or three good things about him and it upset me greatly. Half of the things these people were saying are also completely false, like get your facts straight people! Now I’m not saying that he is perfect or that everything he does is right because yes people make mistakes but it’s a matter of how y'all shouldn’t be posting about how he shouldn’t be allowed to own animals because that is just cruel. And yes you can have you’re opinions but be classy about it, he doesn’t deserve all this hate. Now I might be slightly biased because that is someone I look up to and want to be like but at least I have my facts straight. Damn.

I am really sorry, OP, but your opinions are dangerous. You should not look up to BHB reptiles, even if you have watched the show in the past. I used to watch it, too, and my initial reaction was exactly this: “OH COOL! I can keep a pet in a tiny tub! What a space-saver!”  And that is the dangerous point of view that is extremely harmful to reptiles. Because he is well-known, a lot of people accept that what he says must be true… And it’s not. As I researched, I found that this method of husbandry was severely damaging, and now all my snakes are in large tubs with a lot of enrichment.  And I can almost guarantee that the retic in his recent selfie will soon be the subject of a ‘my poor snake died’ video. When a snake is so sick you can see it, and he’s not doing anything to help it, it’s not long for this world.

Side note: Are those drawers not for simulating periods of hibernation? I know it’s better to not have most reptiles hibernate at all when kept as pets because it can be tricky and they don’t actually need to hibernate to be healthy, they just do it to stay alive when it’s too cold out. INside your house, it can always be optimal for them and that’s best. But do some people not still hibernate their reptiles? Especially if they run large facilities with them? Can this not be a part of decent enough animal care? Also another side note: The people criticizing him are likely right but… Do we know for sure that selfie was not taken with a snake he had just taken custody of in some small victory to get a chance to nurse it back to health? Like, have we confirmed all of these pictures aren’t being taken out of context? I’m not meaning to challenge the criticism, I’m genuinely checking, and asking for information.

No, those animals live full time in those drawers. Ball pythons do not hibernate. Neither do savannah monitors, like the obese specimen in that drawer. If you look into it and watch literally any of his videos, you’ll see that those are the only homes those animals ever have in his care. Brian doesn’t rescue animals or nurse them back to health. That snake of his is either the second or third Sunshine- he keeps getting big burms and they die because he treats them like shit.