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[DeeDub]

Lame....

[Mercedesherp]

I think I paid 135.00 for my copy, soon after release. Books never die, but frogs do. Would you ever spend 200.00 on a frog?
You do not have to purchase it, just borrow from a library.

[DeeDub]

and photocopy it....good call!!! lol

one of you smarty pants (making up for my own lack of knowledge by being condescending...lol) should seriously write up a basic care and medicine book geared toward the hobby and not the science and get it published. All of your responses from the price, to the revelation that this is a textbook fall into my gripe that good info is not readily available in book form for Ceratophrys/Pyxicephalus/amphibians etc. on a whole.

[GrifTheGreat]

and photocopy it....good call!!! lol

one of you smarty pants (making up for my own lack of knowledge by being condescending...lol) should seriously write up a basic care and medicine book geared toward the hobby and not the science and get it published. All of your responses from the price, to the revelation that this is a textbook fall into my gripe that good info is not readily available in book form for Ceratophrys/Pyxicephalus/amphibians etc. on a whole.

A new book should be writen focusing on husbandry and care with the added breeding techniques, but that's a lot of info and a lot of time piling it together.

[DVirginiana]

A new book should br writen focusing on husbandry and care with the added breeding techniques, but that's a lot of info and a lot of time piling it together.

One thing I wonder about is what all you could put in a book like that. The temps and humidity and basic housing info is one thing, but I'm not sure how far you can go with recommending treatments for medical conditions like impaction, or MBD. Like... at what point does care info start to be 'veterinary advice' because I'd wonder when you'd need a vet writing it for legal reasons. It would be a bummer to buy a book on pacman care without a guide on how to deal with impaction and other very common medical problems. I mean, impaction is easily the most common issue I see people posting about on here.

I don't know anything about what a non-vet can/can't legally publish with regards to vet care, just wondering

[GrifTheGreat]

One thing I wonder about is what all you could put in a book like that. The temps and humidity and basic housing info is one thing, but I'm not sure how far you can go with recommending treatments for medical conditions like impaction, or MBD. Like... at what point does care info start to be 'veterinary advice' because I'd wonder when you'd need a vet writing it for legal reasons. It would be a bummer to buy a book on pacman care without a guide on how to deal with impaction and other very common medical problems. I mean, impaction is easily the most common issue I see people posting about on here.

I don't know anything about what a non-vet can/can't legally publish with regards to vet care, just wondering

You could always have a Vet offer those treatments. If you publish actual Vet treatments with proper meds to be used and dosage levels I don't believe you would be publishing anything that would get you into trouble. Otherewise offering any sort of treatment here on the forum could be considered acting as a Vet. Of course most medications required for treatments can only be provided by a Vet so if you state that fact in the care guide then I see no wrong in it. I've been given knowledge from my Vet on how to treat certain ailments, but the meds must still come from him.

[Mercedesherp]

One thing I wonder about is what all you could put in a book like that. The temps and humidity and basic housing info is one thing, but I'm not sure how far you can go with recommending treatments for medical conditions like impaction, or MBD. Like... at what point does care info start to be 'veterinary advice' because I'd wonder when you'd need a vet writing it for legal reasons. It would be a bummer to buy a book on pacman care without a guide on how to deal with impaction and other very common medical problems. I mean, impaction is easily the most common issue I see people posting about on here.

I don't know anything about what a non-vet can/can't legally publish with regards to vet care, just wondering

Basic housing information, combined with understood proper husbandry regimes, reduce the consequence of both impaction and Mbd,( which I may add, are precursures and indicators
of improper husbandry standards ). These two situations are keeper determinate , and, a modification of maintenace skills and Keeper applications, when properly applied, will enable
an advoidance of these issues for the most part.
( I wish I could help you more on these issues, but, time does not allow)

[mikesfrogs]

I guess I will have to buy the book. It will be a month or so but I could help post information.

One thing I wonder about is what all you could put in a book like that. The temps and humidity and basic housing info is one thing, but I'm not sure how far you can go with recommending treatments for medical conditions like impaction, or MBD. Like... at what point does care info start to be 'veterinary advice' because I'd wonder when you'd need a vet writing it for legal reasons. It would be a bummer to buy a book on pacman care without a guide on how to deal with impaction and other very common medical problems. I mean, impaction is easily the most common issue I see people posting about on here.

I don't know anything about what a non-vet can/can't legally publish with regards to vet care, just wondering

[Mercedesherp]

NO photocopying. (unlawfull), borrow and read.
While I am in agreement that pertinate information is currently in-adequate for some, ( as it will always be ) , others gain from what is actually avialable.
Hank