Tom's response to "Garden State Tortoise" Video

[Tom]

Experience just like you. I know the vets & work with several adoptions zoos. All with the same type soil. Sulcatas, red/yellow foot, etc. I usually end up with the testudo & box turtles. Theres plenty of people over seas that keep them on their natural soil.

Im not saying it cant be an issue, but its not near a big of a deal as its being made out to be. Theres underlying issues usually on these type of things.

Also theres a bunch of us that have playsand with fw puffers, altum angels, discus, & fw rays. No off the wall water tests or bad algae blooms.

Adoptions zoos? Can you explain what that is?

Nobody is debating whether or not keeping them on "natural soils" is an issue. All of my tortoises, except for the babies, live outside on natural soils. None of them have ever been impacted.

What do aquarium fish have to do with any of this?

You say this issue is not nearly as big of a deal that it is made out to be. What do you say to the vets out west here that see several cases of sand impaction a year?