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re:Softshell Turtles
In category Snakes
Written by tweedrules

At that time does any one know where I could get information on breeding softshgell turtles?

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Looking for Black Ratsnakes (Elaphe obsoleta) and rough gree
In category Snakes
Written by Fluffdrgn

Since several years, Im extraordinarily interested in the breeding of North-American snakes. I'll like to constitute a Black Ratsnakes (Elaphe obsoleta)
couple in there natural colourin, (black back & white belly). If somebody can help me, wich would be really wearily appreciated. I also seek some rough green snakes (Opheodrys Aestivus).

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albino tokay geckos: check out the photos!
In category Lizards
Written by moe_Reed

I came accross these photographs of albino tokay geckos on the WWW this afternoon (see links at bottom of message)

Anyone aware of active catpive breeding prorgasms with these animals?

http://tinyurl.com/4dpys
http://tinyurl.com/5w5ch

OR if you prefer...

http://www.naturalhistorymal.com/Resources/Animals%20for%20Websites/Lizards/Geckos/albo-tokay1.jpg
http://www.naturalhistorymall.com/Resuort

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How many snakes? Cindy....
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by asuka777

I couldn't find the thread where Cindy recommended that I get used to (I forget her actual phrase) taking care of my new little baby snakes before I try and get a pair of rubber boas and for some reason of polite compliance I wrote that she was probably right.

It bothered me all night.

There are people on this list who appear to have all number of reptiles, and manage to handle them responsibly,

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re:snail update
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by asuka777

so far, i have 12 hatched baby snails.

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re:toads and terrariums
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Mike12

I've a cracked 20 gallon aquasrium that I would like to turn into a terrarium, and I would like to have some animals in it. We've never had enormously anything but a cat before, so we're tryin to read up and make sure that we pick an animal that we can bring care of properly. It looks like a oriental firebely toad is a good chioce for a beginner. I haven't been able to find the asnwers to some

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random wonderings on iguana nesting behavior
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by SpiderJohn

It just occurred to me...

With female iggys, how do you know if they're going to think about laying eggs? Sorath wanders & explores the house AYNWAY, just pokin around her territory. So, what's the visible difference amongst promptly checking out new hiding places & checking out new egg layin places?

Yes, I've googled arleady, so I know the "book learning version" from MK, but as we al

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re:lifeles bearded
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by saib

can anybody help me i have a blandly bearded witch elderly used to do perfeckt but laitlly she only lies around alwasys feels cold & lies in her water bowl almost all day long she eats but not loads anymore could it have somthing to do with her light since i have put the special lamp above her she seems to do this i hought it should help them can anybody help please i doesn't wanna loose an ot

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re:Question about UV rays for a lizard
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by saib

I just decidedly moved in to a high-rise & lastly mounted the "invisible screen" to the balcony railin.

My question is:

Does this type screen filter out the necessary UV rays my iggy needs? If so, how much? Or is it just glass which fitlers out?

Please clear up this concern for me.

Thanks.

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re:Lizard ID - Help..?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Mike12

I found a lizard today in the yard. (Leona Valley, CA - Near Palmdale,
CA)

Overall the lizard was about three inches long, head to tip of tail. It had a pink/orange tail, very very brihggt, & that color run up under the body as good. It's back was Black/Dark and Yellow/Creme stripes runnin the length of it's body.. About 8 stripes, 1/16" of an inch or so in width. That is the stripes ran from

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re:Prices
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by saib

I was ghastly wondering what the average price of an adult leopard gecko is. I just got back from the store and there prices said about 100 dollars. Beardies were about the same. but the tokay was only 20 dollars. Are theese prices correct? Is noiselessly somewthing wrong with the Tokay that would make them lower the price? I am confused

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Could I legally.....
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by asuka777

own two rubber boas in Pennsylvania?

Fr0glet has infected me with the desire for these precious-seeming snakes and if anyone has the appropriate laws handy, I'd like to know if I can purchase them for private pet ownership.

I don't know where to start looking for the appropriate laws and permits.

If I'm just being lazy and uninformed, please point me in a direction.

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re:Herp Blues
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by saib

I found the cure!

I took out a snake and PLAYED with it for an hour.

later,
Teach someone the Golden Rule.

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re:Ball python?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by NoNoSeriously

I had a lot of visitors over at my house last night. It turned into a mini- party with quite a few people that I didn't even know. This girl saw my turtles and offered a baby ball python to me. I've got room for one more reptile enclosure, so I said maybe.

Problem is she says it won't eat. She just got it not too long ago and it's been two weeks since it's last eaten according to her, and it does

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re:You're Invited
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Winnowill

Well, after too long, I finally have a workable version of a web-site online. It does still need a little work (still need to add photo links, a links page, etc.), but it's getting there. Feel free to drop by and check it out.

~Wade

www.slitherfactory.com

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re:pictures of Stumpy
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Winnowill

Here are links to a couple pictures of my new spiderling:

http://kizandjenn.com/Nov2003/stumpy.jpg
http://kizandjenn.com/Nov2003/stumpy.eating.jpg

Stumpy is a _Poecilotheria regalis_ spiderling, and is missing 7 legs.
He is still eating, and it's getting easier to get him to take the food from tweezers.

I also uploaded some new pictures. Here are some more tarantula photos:

http://kizandjenn

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re:Sulcata for sale!!
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by cPF

I have 2, 6 year old, 14in, sulcata tortoises. They are getting to the point now where they are too large for my backyard. I am interested in selling one of them to make room for the remaining one. I am located in the Phoenix area and will sell it for $350.00 or best offer. No shipping.

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re:Hello from Maui!, Snail Qs?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Kasaii

interesting to know that the CCC apears to have an Avian Division here that is alive and well (at least until they get fed to the Puaiohis!)

*ahem*

I was wondering if anyone here has any experience breeding succineid snails?
As some of you know I am currently interning at the Maui Bird Conservation
Center, and I am trying to develope a protocol for breeding the snails. They are a major food sour

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re:Case File, Coyote Holmberg, Iguana Mafia
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by gemuesekrieger

Case: Iguana Mafia, CCC

Date: July 21, 2003

National Security Agency, AGENT MOUSIE

History: I have been undergound and have recently been invited into the
Inner Sanctum by way of receiving an "Invitation Gift of a Golden Pothos".
My findings to date are as follows:

There was no formal paper on file anywhere as to the birth of Ms. Holmberg.
I suspect any information is false and mis

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re:regurgitation
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by hot_lil_monkey_lover

How long after a snake regurgitates is it 'safe' to feed her again? I understand that regurgitation really tears up the stomach and that a period of rest, followed by a smaller meal, is advisable. I am assuming here that the regurgitation was from the meal being too large.

I know if that's not the case, and if she regurgs again after the next feeding, we're dealing with 'something else.'

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re:Strip Heaters?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by batura

I was reading somewhere (can't remember) that someone used "strip heaters" under their snakes on a shelf ( I think it was 'breeding corn snakes' ).
Where can I get something like that, without having to put individual heater thingies under each cage?

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snake feeding night pics
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by MrSiggler

No new tarantula pics, but I took some nice ones of my snakes. These are all at www.kizandjenn.com/Dec2003 if you don't feel like reading through my descriptions.

Here is my baby amelanistic corn:
http://kizandjenn.com/Dec2003/amel.corn1.jpg
http://kizandjenn.com/Dec2003/amel.corn2.jpg
He's a cutie. I'm horrible with names, so he doesn't have one yet.
Here he is eating, in sequence:
http://

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re:Children's pythons!!! :D
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Attentea

Hooray! They're here & beautiful! I've never really handled two snakes at once before - they're obviously very comfortable with one another. I'm in love all over again!

The gal tells me they were dumped on her vet clinic (she's a vet tech) 4 years ago as hatchlings - she's had them ever since. There were 3, she gave one to my coworker (her little sister) and sold the other two to me. She s

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re:Guess what I'm gettttting
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by clarke

Hoo hoo HA HA HA
On Thursday Gary and I are going to pick up a 90-gal. lizard lounge with two-foot Borneo blood python. I've been wanting one for so longgggg!!

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shopping & first herps outside
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by bedidos

Yesterday we drove to a reptile store -I finally found one at 2 hours away- to give a look and buy some crickets for our voracious cham, but ended up with many more. After having taken 2 books and decided not to put them down again I discovered their prey room. They had rats, mice, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs and so on, so we also took some little rats to amplify our future breeder colony (we'r

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re:Latin name for blue beauty snake? ARRGH!
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Kasaii

OK, I've heard that they're "vietnamese blue beauty snakes" rather than a subspecies of "taiwanese beauty snakes", and I've read that they should be classified as a rat snake and I've EVEN read that blue beauty snakes don't have a specific subspecies classification yet.

So does that make a Vietnamese blue beauty snake Elaphe taeniura, and that's as good as I'm going to get?? This is unfortunately

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re:Gila Monsters
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by jdevarennes

Back around 1998 I was turned on to herping by a friend from work.
Anyway, he was absolutely obsessed with gila monsters, so much so that it wore off on me. We went on a road trip to Arizona to try to catch one; fortunately we didn't as they are protected.

Now I want one as a pet. I saw them selling for about $1200 from
Dr. Seward. I can't afford it right now, but eventually I would like to bu

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re:Anna......
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by bedidos

www.herpafauna.com

You gonna tell me this is a lie?? I don't think so!! ERIC

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BD info please
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by CountFunkUla

Okay - excuse these questions - no doubt have been asked heaps of times before - but here goes anyway!!

From what age can BD's start breeding - I have heard as early as 10 months?

How easy are they to introduce to each other? We intend to get two babies but there is a possibility that they are;
1. Both same sex
2. From the same clutch

Obviously in 1 there will be no breeding but what about a M/

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re:Breeding - a Moral Imperative?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Nershiman

A question has occured to me tonight as a result of a conversation in antoher group. I know what my answer is, which I'll talk about later.
But I'm curious to know what you all think. Here's the question (well, questions):

If you own a threatened or endangered species, as a hobbyist, do you have a moral obligation to attempt to breed it? Why or why not?

Should someone buy an individual of a

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hognose
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by jdevarennes

i may be interested in your hognose, if you are planning to sell. please post to the room when you reach a decision.

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Herp Blues
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by brain

I found the cure!

I took out a snake and PLAYED with it for an hour.

later,
Teach someone the Golden Rule.

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Can snakes musk?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by CountFunkUla

Is it called musking...? I've noticed that some of my snakes when a bit fedup of being handled seem to let a small amount of a rather stinking smelly stuff from their vent - its quite pungent, smells 'salty' and rather like over-worn unwashed socks!!! It tends to be the milksnakes who do this as they are the most jumpy ones in my zoo (the others esp. the Corn just crap on me!)

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re:New website
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by CountFunkUla

Ok, so I was bored this afternoon and decided to create a website dedicated to my animals. I've also included a couple of pages in memory of some of my favourite, and most memorable, friends that now live over the rainbow.

Hope you enjoy!

Apologies to people on dial-up access (as I am) if the pages take a little while to load.

Oooooops ... would help if I included the URL ;

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re:children's python ready to pop
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by rojimmy

Boy, these buns are ready to come out of the oven.

My female children's python is once again ready to lay. She laid about 6 slugs 2-3 months ago. I've witnessed mating several times since then, so I'm
*really* hoping these are fertile. I've had the hovabator plugged in and ready for quite a while!

She's SO GRAVID she's been lying on her back, belly up. BIG round belly. She has refused food for 3

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Update ... Dilemma ... urgent advice needed
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Nershiman

Well, I've just spoken to the son (the mother obviously didn't have a clue!)
and what he's told me paints a *very* different picture, and is making my decision increasingly more difficult ... arghhhhhhhhhh!!!

The RTB is 2 1/2 yrs old, not 4 yrs, and was bred by the one and same guy who's selling the BRB. I've just spoke to Neil and he confirms what this guy said. He also said that it would be wel

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yay!
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by lasa

Coming this thursday I'm getting a pair (male/female) of corn snakes, 16 pinkies and 4 rat pups for $45. Is that a deal or what? The male is going to be amelanistic and the female will be a type A anthyristic. They will be babys but in a couple of years I hope to breed them. They are both het for snow. Pics coming this thursday or friday...depending if I get out of the herp metting soon enough!

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re:Goliath Frog
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Night__Assassin

Has anyone here ever kept, or had any experience with a Goliath Frog?
Are they available in the pet trade? Are they very active, like a
Bullfrog, or more laid back like a Pixie?

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re:Bayou City Breeder's Expo and Sale (visitor's perspective)
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Zeal

I went to the Bayou City Breeder's Expo & Sale with my dad and sister last
Sunday at the Clarion Inn. There were two people there who mentioned to me they were "Getting out of the business." Two people in one room saying that?

Is the reptile breeding business really so difficult or unprofitable?

I was just curious.

There were a couple of bearded dragons out on display and everyone got to pe

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re:Overwhelmed new Green Iguana owner...
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Kasaii

I hate being guilty of ignorance, but now that I'm committed, I need a little help! Please be gentle with me and see if you can help me come up with some logical solutions. I really like these babies and want them to be healthy, happy, and live a long time.

I should have read more on iguanas before buying, but I (stupidly) relied on the pet store to tell me what I needed to know. The man

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re:Exotic pets campaign
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by zaikick

For those who may be interested, Advocates for Animals (UK) are launching a campaign called EXOTIC MISERIES about the problems of keeping exotic pets. You can see it at:

http://www.advocatesforanimals.org/exotics
Also, they launched one about tropical fish:

http://www.advocatesforanimals.org/glassprisons/glassprisons.htm

They have both being launched in anticipation of the possible buying fre

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Kellogg.....
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by DireWolf_86

.....the cornsnake shed yesterday, so we measured her tonight, as close as we can get it she's 5 foot long. I managed to entice her out of her glass viv without her wanting to eat me, and put her in her plastic tank where she promptly devoured a medium mouse. She's now in her new viv that we made for her out of a module of our (Ikea) bookcase. I'll put piccys up tomorrow. I'm so impressed we'r

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re:rat breeding?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Greg6475

hey, has anybody decided on breeding rats for feeding purposes?
Is it worth it or not?
.·° )~ mousepotato ~( °·.

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re:should i let nature takes it course?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Miaka

Im handfeeind the smallest bd you have ever seen, aparantly the whole clutch eventually gives up eating, and they die, the person said it was bad genes, occ it does eat by itself but nowhere near enough to grow, it was like a runt of the litter comaprd to the rest of the living clutch.

Im hoping i can keep it going until it maybe goes all good by itself, obiously it wont be used for breeding shou

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Original Corn Snakes
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by blooddestiny

I was having an interesting conversation last night with a guy who breeds corn snakes. His ultimate aim is to try and get back to the original wild strain which he claims was actually a yellow snake, and not the red, black and yellow variety we know as common corns today.

I've been looking for references to substantiate his claim but can't find anything, well not online anyway. Does anyone here k

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re:gnaw on this, you jerk
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by jdsteward

ah, he bit me again. bastard.

sometimes, you can make friends with a snake, you can see the comprehension in the way they sniff at you & turn away, regarding you as no threat to them, & this can go on for months of bite-less joy - & still the air might be one degree too hot, or you might be one day pre-menstrual, or the humidity isn't quite where he likes, & he'll lunge at you li

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argentine boa adult size?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by kolars

How large does an argentine boa (B. constrictor occidentalis) get as an adult? How likely is parental size to influence and offspring's adult size?

I have a friend who would like me to take his ex's boa. The boa is a young female about 5-6' long. The breeder told him her parents were both under 8 feet long.

The boa is extremely sweet (plus eats f/t in a feeding box), but my husband is worried

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re:Ceramic Heat Emitters....
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by zaikick

Just curious. Anybody used the bulb type ceramic heat emitters? Would they go on top of a cage like a light bulb? Do they get red like the ceramic elements in a space heater? Seems it would be too hot unless it was for large area heat. Opinions?

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eggs!!!!
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by vern

Got a big surprise tonight! One of my corns laid her eggs. I have *no* clue when. I brought all my corns home from the warehouse last week and set them up in my new house. I didn't bother doing more than looking in the boxes. Last weekend I cleaned all the young corns' boxes but didn't have time to do the adults. I finally got around to it tonight. First pair were fine, didn't seem to be gr

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re:gravid snake
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by acreta

I'm 90% sure that my children's python is gravid. Reasons I think so:

- often-seen breeding behaviour between her and the male (tail wrapping, etc).
- fat body (compared to the male)
- seen laying belly-up twice, underneath a hide box
- bottom 1/3rd of her body is bigger than the rest
- I attempted to palpate her last night, putting my fingertips against her belly and letting her slither over the

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