Breeding
Snakes
The Ups & Downs of Breeding Herpetofauna: Carpet Python Edition
By Ryan Dumas
Every year I have a select few pairs of herpetofauna I attempt to reproduce. Planning and executing a synthetic cycle of events that trigger them to do so is not always easy....
Chelonians
Homeana at Home: Care and Breeding of Kinixys homeana
By Tyler Brooks
The captive care of the Home’s Hingeback Tortoise, Kinixys homeana, is something that is not discussed enough. Hopefully, by the end of this article, you will be interested in the care and...
Tips
Getting Great Feeders
By Justin Smith
Every aspect of animal husbandry is important. Whether it is caging, lighting, temperature control, or supplementation, it all adds up! One aspect of this that I believe is widely overlooked is feeder...
Snakes
R&B Reptiles and the Pursuit of Old World Rat Snakes
Do you ever see an animal in a book or magazine and think “I’d really love to work with an amazing creature like that!”? I mean, think back, really think back to a time when...
Lizards
Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination In Reptiles
By Josh Hall
In the 1960s, Madeline Charnier started incubating eggs of the African Rainbow Agama (Agama agama) at different temperatures in her lab at the University of Dakar, Senegal. She noticed the sex ratio...
Snakes
Breeding Boiga cyanea
By Justin Smith
It was the fall of 2018. At this point, I had decided to shift my focus back to snakes as I slowly started selling my collection of Crested and Gargoyle Geckos. Chondros...
Snakes
Maligned and Misunderstood – The Red Blood Python in Captivity
By Graham Battison
It was in the early 2000s when I first developed a fascination with the blood python. I was breeding ball pythons at the time and would be fixated on VPI's website waiting...
Amphibians
Ameerega in the Mist: Keeping A. hahneli ‘Tahuyao’
By Tijl of @Urban__Jungles
Foreword
First, a quick introduction! My name is Tijl and I am a frog enthusiast from Belgium. I have been keeping and breeding different species of dart frogs since 2010. Back...
