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re:Feeding a King Snake
In category Snakes
Written by tweedrules

One of my girls just gotten a Similoan King Snake, about 8" long. For various reasons, I will prefer not to have to feed mice all the time. Has any one had luck getting there King Snake to eat crickets or mealworms?


Ok Mite Problem seems to be subsiding
In category Snakes
Written by TestAccountBitch

As expected hey thanx for the help Alan. Though i'll Try to pick up that book as soon as I get some more cash rollin in. And yea I only owe one snake (or reptile).

Turns out the mites came from the substrate itself (Repti-Bark or somehting like that?). I hadn't realized that you had to freeze the bag first. I gone back to Petco today and the same guy was there from before and apparently he had t


Chinese water dragons
In category Lizards
Written by svudah

Im hoping wich someone who reads this group knows something about Chinese water dragons.
My son has 1 which is a little over a year old. About two months ago, he mysteriously started getting lethargic, & sitting around with his eyes closed constantly. Rarely does he open his eyes now, & he dont eat much, if at all. We are feeding him a supplement we gotten at the pet store (after he sta


re:Ah, I'm such a softy for toads...
In category Amphibians
Written by kenP

On Sunday, my little brother gets home & tells me there's a frog on our street. It was already pretty cold outside, and we rarely ever gets frogs in my neighbourhood (we live close to a river, but we're drastically uphill). On the street, there was a tiny, quarter-sized American toad ([i:cb511729d7]Bufo americanus[/i:cb511729d7]).

I didn't have the heart to leave the cute little girl outside,


my toad is rubbing his toes raw
In category Amphibians
Written by kenP

he keeps trying to climb up to side of his enclouser which is a semi-clear plastic container sorta light a steralight or a rubbermaid but i dont remember whats its called
but he keeps trying to climb up the sides so i thought maybe it was time to change out the substrate cuase my bearded dragons to the same thing after the poop like "hey lady clean this up!" so i changed it and he still does it i


I.M......C.C.C.___Coyote
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Dmb86

ok i have read every single last word on which page. please i beg for me & for all of us rph'rs which are caught in your web, please in the name of sorath & the criucket god, please plus some more. i think i am actually drying up. i profanely need more. plaese.


re:A couple Iguana Mafia Profiles Added
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by asuka777

It is the unholy hour of 1:45 am. All hail the Evil Gods of Insomnia. So, if the content looks bizare, blame them, not me.

I've persistently added four entire profiles & mugshots to the Iguana Mafia Profiles page, so far. Froglet, Schizo-Bill (blame your sigfile), Anna, & York, are up. Mausa: I won't find a pic of you. Did you send one? If so, it is hiding from me. If not, what about a


re:WORRIED: My leopard hasn't eaten for 5 days.
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by asuka777

He is a two year old male. He is very active & ALWAYS wants out of his tank. If I walk near the tank he starts jumpin up like he's beghging me to tastefully bring him out & let him walk around. I handle him every day, I'd ridiculously bring him out for about five minutes & let him walk around the room or what ever. But it seems like when he's in his tank all he wants to do is get ou


REPTOBOOST!
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by saib

Hey I found a reptile oriented probacterial product! But I can't find it for sale in the US...

It's called ReptoBoost:
http://www.reptileparadise.com/dry_vitamins.htm#reptoboost and so far I see it for sale in China and the UK but that's it! There must be some other generic name for the stuff that I'm overlooking. :|

fr0glet


Suggestions wanted
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by asuka777

I'd like to buy a snake that eats regularly barring health issues. I see no reason to continue to make Gloria the Kingsnake's eating versus not eating a central factor on my worrybeads.

Can anyone suggest such a breed? I know not all individuals within a specific category behave in the same way, but what I'm hoping you can tell me is what type of snake GENERALLY eats assuming good husbandry


re:hello....
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by SpiderJohn

I have been talking with your member SnakeKing and discussing maybe getting a leopard gecko for my son. So was looking for information, tips and such.
He's 8 and has been wanting an Iguana, but I won't go with anything that will get that large.

I don't know where to even purchase one here locally and have gotten some good tips from SnakeKing...also going to email the president of the herp societ


re:Water dragon feeding
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by brrmont

I abruptly purchased Norbert about a week ago. Before I patently buyed him I did purchase books & did research on the internet about size & needs but when I technically started feeding him I realized which none of the books or any internet sites tell how much to feed them, just what to freely feed, innocently feeding frequencies ,vitamins & calcium supplements (that he gets when I feed


re:Help With Frog
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by saib

About 2 months ago my 5 year old brouyght 7 tadpoles home from preschool (thanks, teacher!). Since then, a cuople have died from natuyral causes, two were eaten by one of their canrivorous siblings, and that leaves three assuredly rewmaing creatuyres. About two or three weeks ago one crisply turned into a frog. A second one has back legs that seem to be variously developing well.

As soon


crickets for sale in Seattle
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Lambda70

Not only that we've gotten a bunch of 5 week crickets left over at our warehouse, and I'd like to see them get used. So, if you're in the Seatle area and can stand coming by my cat-infested apartment (no only peeking in the herp room, the cages frequently need cleaning - okay, the whole place does), I've got a deal for you. $12/thousand. I have ten thuosand total. Send me an email if you're in


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


re:hi all feeding question on water dragon
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Mike12

i gotten a girl thats 19" stl & 5 1/2" svl the other day she ate 43 crickets and 5 grasshoppers is this too much ive been told to feed them til they wont eat anymore and they'le be fine. so am i doing it right or is this too much.


re:Feeding an Eastern Collared Lizard
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by spredhed

I have a newly-acquired Eastern Collared Lizard and I have a few qeustoins / concerns about its unreasonably feeding.

1. He seems to be successfully uninterested in eatin generally aynthing other than crickets.
I've tried giant maelworms and waxworms, but he will not touch iether.
Do I need to worry that he is not faithfully getting a balanced diet if he is just crookedly eating crtickets. I do d


re:Cricket Farm
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by saib

Pardon my second post here I forgot to add this question on.

As I have a Chameleon and Gecko I would like to breed my own crickets for their food. What do I need to do this ?? Are there any sites that may assist me?


re:Beardie or Water?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by brrmont

My son (6) has recently became enamored with the idea of having a lizard as a pet. We gone browsing yesdterday & he's leanbing towards a water dragon, but after a night's carefully reading various web pages and most of the messages in this group, I'm wondering if a beadred dragon might be easier for him to take care of.

The biggest issue right now is housing. I'm enormously laening toward


re:Leopard's don't eat crickets, but they will eat Superworms?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by saib

I have 3 Leos, 1 is still under a year old (9-10 months), the other 2 are 2 years old. The young one eats everything, but the older 2 don't eat there crickets if I put them in there. I can put 1-2 crickets in each of their tanks and then 2 days later there is still 1-2 crickets running around. They will even see them running around and they don't go into what I call "hunt mode", they just turn


bufo marinus
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by heartless imp

For a couple of weeks we have two bufo marinus.
Now I have two questions:
Some times one of them turns pale and is sweaty, very wet.
Is there something wrong?
After some time it turns to normal .
And every now and then we find little white "things" in there droppings. We feed on crickets and grasshoppers.
Are these white things parts of the crickets? Or maybe worms?
We hope someone can help us whi


re:Finally getting my Leo
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Winnowill

Long time no post. Anyway I have finally managed to sway my parents to let me get a leopard gecko, I have even found a breeder nearby. I have a few clarifying questions to ask, however.
What is the best way to store crickets? and when is the best time to feed them? and what would be the best diet for the crickets, so my gecko can get the required nutrition? Also, I plan on using an undertan


Bufo Marinus
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Sheerblade

New to keeping these beasts in the UK, I have only kept common toads before.

Would appreciate any tips on their feeding habits for anyone with relevant experience.


Another pet!
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Warrior Kalia

Well....we have a new baby here at the Metareptile zoo. Not a herp this time, but a Love Bird. Now my list goes something like this.....

"Tweeter" the Love Bird,

"Barney" the Mini Pinscher,

"Luci" the Redtail Boa,

"Ozzy" the Ball Python,

"Grabboid" the Anythristic Kenyan Sand Boa,

"Chuckie" the Creamsicle Corn,

"Blackie" the Snow Corn,

"Salt" & "Pepper" the Leucistic Texas Rat Snake &a


re:Hunger Strike for Leo?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by albiez420

I may be worrying TOO early but our little leopard gecko hasn't eaten in a couple of days. Now --before this feared hunger strike, I did "treat" the little guy to some mealworms (4) and he gobbled them up in a short while.
Could he be showing favorites (not wanting to chase crickets now). I've even crippled a cricket and laid it right in front of him but he bailed on the offer.

He DID eat good a


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


LG Experts Please Help...
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Miaka

I got my first halfway-house project today. A friend of mine gave me his very sick leo gecko that hasn't eaten in quite a long time and it's pretty emaciated (skin and bones kinda thing) but, it still has a lot of spunk and energy. Friend had it in a tank with much larger
LG's that were bullying and stressing it way the hell out. He didn't even know it was in the tank until a few days ago and h


re:creepy crawlie problems
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by gemuesekrieger

I need help.

I was given 5 leopard geckos to see if I could do anything to get them to eat.I've been giving them slurry with moderate effects. Upon closer examination, under two magnifying glasses, small brownish red crawly things, looking rather oval in shape, some more reddish than the others. You would never see them if you weren't looking for them. I just don't know how to treat this. A plate


hi all feeding question on water dragon
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by snare68

i got a girl thats 19" stl and 5 1/2" svl the other day she ate 43 crickets and 5 grasshoppers is this too much ive been told to feed them til they wont eat anymore and they'le be fine. so am i doing it right or is this too much.


re:OT; Bugs
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by MrSiggler

Does anyone have any idea what this is?
http://a.1asphost.com/chinchillam0m/pet.bugs%20022.jpg
I have a TON of them in my cricket tank! I assume they came with the crickets b/c I've seen one or two before, but they were tiny and I've never seen them anywhere else.

Also, I've found a couple of lite/white crix in with this shipment too. It's very odd, I never noticed them before (I've had this bat


re:Best way to kill rats?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Warrior Kalia

I can't seem to do it right. I hit it on a table but it never dies. I'm sure I'm not hitting it hard enough. I end up torturing the thing, hitting it twice & still no luck. Tonight a piece of it's tail came off in my fingers & it bled all over the snake. Any suggestions? I heard of using
CO2 as a means. I have access to plenty of CO2. How do you do this?


re:Beardie or Water?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by hot_lil_monkey_lover

My son (6) has recently become enamored with the idea of having a lizard as a pet. We went browsing yesterday and he's leaning towards a water dragon, but after a night's reading various web pages and most of the messages in this group, I'm wondering if a bearded dragon might be easier for him to take care of.

The biggest issue right now is housing. I'm leaning towards building versus buying


re:cham rehab
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Kasaii

Last year our veilded cham suffered some sort of intoxication that debilitated her a lot. She was force fed ever since. She has gained back her nice colour and is grown. Last month she shed the right hint leg (I don't know if herps can shed partially). Two weeks ago she also had a complete shed, it came off all by itself, no help needed. I tried to put some crickets in her enclosure, but never saw


re:Green frog - feeding frequency
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by markd

Spring saw 1000's of green frog tadpoles in our backyard "creek".
We kept a dozen or so in our aquaria for fun. Almost all morphed and were released in the creek this summer. BUT, three have waited to morph until October, at which point we figured it would be better (and more fun) to house them thru winter at least.

10 gal aquarium, (yes i know it'll be too small soon), 1/2 land 1/2 water set


re:centipede pics
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Miaka

Sorry for the delay on getting these pics up, I'm doing the work of three people at work this week!

Warning, some blood and gore. Giant Peruvian centipede consuming a rat pup.


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


re:Ok Mite Problem seems to be subsiding
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by freddyburg

Hey thanks for the help Alan. I'll Try to pick up that book as soon as I get some more cash rolling in. And yea I only own one snake (or reptile).

Turns out the mites came from the substrate itself (Repti-Bark or something like that?). I hadn't realized that you had to freeze the bag first. I went back to Petco today and the same guy was there from before and apparently he had told me that littl


re:Dwarf Timor
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by hot_lil_monkey_lover

New poster here. I've been lurking a while, and this seems like a good, knowlegable place to get information. I'm a grown man, living alone, and earning my own living. I currenty own several snakes and a couple of aquatic reptiles. I'd like to get a land lizard. At a local pet store, I recently saw an adorable little Dwarf Timor Monitor for $199. This is the perfect size for my place. Can a


fr0glet - Chris - Pete
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Miaka

i recently had a five and a half gallon enclosure come available and i've just been wondering if there are any suitable small snakes that i could keep in a tank that size. i keep my cornsnake in a 10 gallon with a heating pad on one side and with 2 hides on warm and cool sides. ambient temps range from about 78 to 85. i have had no need for a heating lamp yet but i will in the winter. i would l


Lost one of our Beardie's
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by CountFunkUla

From the three babies we got last Saturday we came in this afternoon to find one of them had died. We were worried about this one as it just wasn't as active and didn't hold it head up like the other two. We were going to move it into a little viv of its own to see if that made a difference but we didn't get the chance

There was hole in the left side just if-front of the hind leg - we think it


re:Gut loading crickets?
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by hot_lil_monkey_lover

What is the best way to gut load crickets? So far my little plated lizard has been doing fine on what I've been feeding him (crickets or mealworms daily, and a calcium/Vit D3 supplement once a week), but I would like to increase the amount of nutrition he and his new buddies (whenever they arrive) are getting. What sort of foods do you recommend? I have lots of veggies for the birds, parrot food p


re:Iguana Mafia: Local Charity Alleged to Have Ties to Cricket
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by bedidos

Local Charity Alleged to Have Ties to Cricket Cult

Saturday, August 9, 2003

by Investigative Reporter Bruce Carter

Many of our readers are familiar with the "Save a Cricket" Foundation, which has been instrumental in providing thousands upon thousands of young crickets worldwide with a better opportunity in life. For those who are not familiar with their work, Save a Cricket addresses the needs


re:Question about baby crickets in my gecko tank!!
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by tateburns

Ok ... I didnt notice till now but apparently 1 of the crickets I put into my gecko tank decided to lay a ton of eggs. I know this because
I seem to have a shit load of 1mm crickets in there. They just ate up
2 of the meal worms that were in the feeding dish.

Here is the question:
Should I be cleaning out the tank and throwing out the substrate???
I dont know if they will harm the geckos or not.



Poor care rant!
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by LowerDogma

Today I was given an Oriental firebellied toad (B. orientalis) by my brother's friend's sister because she didn't want it anymore. My brother brought it over and, let me tell you, if I had seen this pathetic "owner" face to face I might be in jail on an assault charge! This poor little toad is nothing but bones!
I couldn't even get him to eat, he'd just sit there while the crickets climbed all


re:LG on hunger strike
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Groovethepocket

One of our leopard geckos has decided to go on a hunger strike. It's been five days since she last ate, down from eating every day. I'm hoping it's just a bout of shed-related crankiness, as she shed around Day 3 of her fast (no retained shed), and the rest of her behavior (fondness for tv and taking naps in the open on the warm end of the tank at night) has resumed following her shed.
Temperatu


re:leo doesn't eat
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by batura

An our leopard gecko has lost weight, probably she doesn't eat anymore since a week or more. She is 2 years old and lives in a colony with an adult male and younger females. I examined her today and her belly is still nice full, but her tail has become the half of what it was before. Could it be that she's gravid?


Firebellied Toads & Feeding
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Bill_Phish

I have a couple of Eurobean Firebellied Toads and have read that they like fresh water shrimp. Can anyone give me any links for keeping these shrimp and if possible any suppliers (pref. mail order) in the **UK**? I can find a lot of inf about Brine Shrimp but I guess these won't be happy living in a fresh water tank!


Educate my Mom
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by SweetDiscord

Hey all I am interested in getting a herp. I am thinking about either a leopard gecko or a snake. Two questions here. What snake is recommended for beginners, if any. And how do i convice my mom that they are perfectly fine pets.


re:feeding frogs
In category Reptile Discussions
Written by Rinn

The subject says half of it. When feeding small frogs fruit flys....how the heck do you keep them at frog level? They are the flightless kind, but that doesn't mean they stay on the ground! I am guessing a light outside at the bottom of the aquarium (mad frog might not feed), a paper towel or other substance under the screen to keep them in (still not down and little to no circulation), or a piece




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