want to know what the acronyms are?

[carpy]

Originally Posted by friget

went through all 6 pages and still don't know what viv means...
help?

viv - vivarium

not really acronym, just an abbreviation

[evilchild]

dum question but,
cb - captive bred
cf - captive farmed

whats the differance? whats best?

[dodol]

nice thread....very helpfull...now i get to learn sumthin from dis forum..

RFUK

[carpy]

Originally Posted by evilchild

dum question but,
cb - captive bred
cf - captive farmed

whats the differance? whats best?

captive farmed is usually where females (often gravid) are taken from the wild, placed in a captive environment, and then either mated, or allowed to lay / give birth to her young in this captive environment. this is almost always done in the country of collection. the resulting offspring are then shipped internationally. they are often parasite infested, or have feeding issues, or other problems because they are oftne kept in similar ocnditions to wild (i.e pens) and there is often a high population density.

captive bred is where the young are bred in an entirely captive envoronment, and should be where the female was mated under captive conditions

[Pinksluvva]

K, got all tha, so wot does 'MBK' mean then? Also, Im new 2 all this, so wots a 'RUB'?

[carpy]

MBK is mexican black king snake, and RUB is a make of clear storage box, an acronym of really useful box

[joeandsal]

great thread cleared a few things up but what does imao mean in my what? opinion???????????????????????

thanks jody

[carpy]

Originally Posted by joeandsal

great thread cleared a few things up but what does imao mean in my what? opinion???????????????????????

thanks jody

Could mean one of 2 things

LMAO - laughing my ass off
IMO - in my opinion

[Skyespirit86]

what about ph- possible het?

[carpy]

Originally Posted by Skyespirit86

what about ph- possible het?

depends in what context - where did you read it?