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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...
Snakes
The Herald Snake
By Nipper Read
Those that know me will tell you I’m a sucker for a rare colubrid. I don’t care if it's small and dull coloured with the most difficult to reproduce diet, if...
Snakes
Malagasy Cat-Eyed Snakes!
By Roger Pewtress and Nipper Read
Madagascar is, by the nature of its geography, a paradise for insular island endemic species, and as such is a herpers dream. Iconic species such as Sanzinia, the Madagascar...
Lizards
Eublepharis hardwickii – The East Indian Leopard Gecko
By Johannes Knierer
"I wish my baby Leopard Gecko would keep its banded pattern into adulthood" - a thought that has probably crossed the minds of many Leopard Gecko keepers over the years. What if I...
Tips
The Food of Feeders
An interview with Kyle Vargas
HM: So you were on The Herpetoculture Podcast not that long ago and talked about how you feed your rodents a varied diet? What is it that you give them,...
Lizards
Collared Lizards In Captivity
By Brandon J. Louth DVM Candidate 2021
The collared lizard, encompassing the genus Crotaphytus, is starting to rise in popularity in the pet trade. As captive breeding and husbandry knowledge has allowed for more availability...
Lizards
Flap-Necked Chameleons – A Hardy Species
By Paul Donovan
The one reptile here in Botswana, (where I live) that has more senseless myths hanging from its name than any other herp is, believe it or not, the Flap-necked chameleon, Chamaeleo dilepis....
