Snakes
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5 Herp Room Must-Haves: Billy Hunt of Uwabami Reptiles
Snake Hook
With the number of animals and species I work with, I have found snake hooks to be one of the most valuable tools in my snake room. Hook training all my animals has...
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...
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Understanding Parthenogenesis
By Paul Donovan
Over the past few issues, I have covered reproduction in scorpions, spiders and insects. This month I want to look at a rather unusual mode of reproduction; so-called ‘virgin births’. This is...
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...
Product Reviews
Product Review: BlackBox XT-4 PVC Cage
Review by Justin Smith
The first time I got to see the racks and cages from BlackBox Cages first hand was at the 2020 NRBE Daytona show. I was blown away by how smooth the...
Tips
5 Herp Room Must-Haves: Kori Martin of Kori Martin Reptiles
1. Snake Hooks
Snake hooks are my number one must have. I have hooks in every room where I keep snakes. I have a pretty significant carpet python collection, and having them all hook trained...
Lizards
The Strophurus Geckos
by Meeker Reptiles
Description
Members of the genus Strophurus are endemic to Australia and found throughout the continent with exception of mesic areas along the eastern coast and Tasmania. With 20 recognized species, this is the...
Morelia Spotlight
Morelia Spotlight: Papuan Carpet Pythons
by Billy Hunt
Papuan carpet pythons or Irian Jaya carpet pythons are a subspecies in the carpet python complex under the nomenclature, Morelia spilota harrisoni. They are the smallest of the carpet pythons and a personal...
