animal husbandry is constantly changing. if you’ve been keeping your animals the same way 20+ years, then maybe you should look around and reevaluate your husbandry
^This. Seriously if you read about the history of the herp hobby, or even professional herp keeping in zoos and academic settings, it has come so far in such a short amount of time. It wasn’t very long ago that there were no rules, everything was wild caught, and reptile vet care was unheard of. We now know how to readily breed species that never used to survive more than a couple months in captivity. .