is there any reason to not just exclusively feed hornworms to a new caledonian gecko?
I hate crickets. They don't readily take dubias and I fucking hate finding dubias they decided to just let go in their cages. The male readily takes and the female goes ballistic for hornworms and they're not super fatty and offer a decent amount of chitin. The main reason I want to provide insects is for chitin, hydration and stimulation since CGD has all of the nutrients handled.

>>5093681
A more varied diet is always better than a less varied diet, but if hornworms and CGD is the alternative to just CGD, it’s obviously a superior choice. Have you tried soldier fly larva?

>>5093685
i haven't done soldierflies but my local store only reliably has hornworms, dubias and crickets. I think wormy things in general are more up their alley since they took silkworms and waxworms before, but i'm not really trying to powerfeed/bulk them so I don't see much of a point in giving them super fatty stuff.

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>walk past garden
>see little lizard chilling on shadecloth
>it's just one of the many skinks that chill there daily
>do a double take
>that's a huge head for a skink
>it's a Bearded Dragon
>holy fuck that's a small Bearded Dragon, smaller than my pinkie finger
>notice it sit there the entire day
>big Huntsman spider starts moving closer and closer to it
>pick the Bearded Dragon up and put in my garden away from spider
Sorry God but I had to interfere, he was too smol and cute to be eaten by a shitty spider.

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Alright guys I'm in trouble.
I catch salamanders and frogs when I see them, but thing my fat huge salamander was in fact pregnant and laid larvas. I checked online and they eat mosquitos larvas and shit but it's winter there and there are none. I caught small flies and they won't eat them, same for small worms I bought. It's like they won't eat anything. I hesitated releasing them but we're in winter. The weather actually is ok these days and the lake probably won't freeze but I'm afraid it snows or something in february and they all die or get eaten by a predator.
Is there a way to feed them or do I have to release them hoping for them to survive? They're in that basket for a full week and surprisingly didn't die…
What do?

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So full and fat

>>5094148
Any fish stores near you? Some of them sell different live feeders like daphnia, bloodworms and stuff. Alternatively you can buy brine shrimp eggs there and hatch them, then feed the freshly hatched nauplii to the salamanders. The brine shrimp hatch within 1-2 days, so if you keep the salamanders cool they should survive until then.

>>5094181
I second the suggestion of brine shrimps until they grow big

>>5094181
>>5094205
>Any fish store near you?
Not really I live in the middle of nowhere. I went to a fishing shop, where I bought the worms but it's a small shop and at this period the choice is extra narrowed. I bought the smallest of the 2 type of worms used to fish but they won't eat it, they must be too big for them. They could actually eat them if they teared them apart but won't do it.
Alright I'll try to see online and IRL to get the shrimp eggs but I hope the larvas will survive until I get the eggs and they hatch. I'll try to get the daphnia and bloodworms if I can IRL too.

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>petco

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>Ball Python

I have been using this as a hide/basking platform for a while now and my snakes love it.

As it's just bare wood texture though, it doesn't really blend in with the enclosure so I was considering painting it. Also by painting it darker, it should hold the heat more for them.
Would general non-toxic acrylic and a gloss be okay to use or is there a specific paint/seal to use?

Also was looking for some sort of texture for the basking platform (artificial grass or something) to give them some enrichment; any idea on what I could use that isn't reptile rug or a layer of substrate?

I know I've asked this before but what turtles live the longest?

>>5093883
dubias are so good for reptiles they feel like they're artificially made, they have a better ratio of fat to protein than nearly any easily available feeder

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>>5094543
steel wool (plain steel wool no detergent obviously) dissolved in vinegar is a non-toxic, natural wood stain/ebonizer.
As for fake grass, it's cheap as shit, go for it.

>>5094148
Look up guides made by axolotl breeders. It’ll be the same

>>5094148
>know about baby salamanders
>know why axolotls are the way they are
>still went "wait a minute, they don't make tadpoles?"

>>5094148
Muck from a stream or pond will have dormant arthropods, same with soil. Warm it up and feed it some food to see if anything edible to salamanders pops up.

>>5094543
I would bury it in substrate and leaves. I do that with half log hides and it looks nice.

>>5094553
box turtles and wood turtles can live for a pretty long time compared to other turtles if you're looking for a non-tortoise option. There's also both common snappers and gator snappers if you have the space and wouldn't mind getting something more dangerous.

>>5094843
not specifically looking for a non tortoise option

>>5094887
oh then well pretty much all tortoises if well taken care of could live a full human lifetime with some species potentially outliving you when it comes to large species.

could I realistically fit a male ball python in a 30 gallon?

>could it fit
shut the fuck up and dont buy a reptile

>>5095355
It's a genuine question, faggot. Reddit says the tank needs to be like 5 foot long but breeders keep snakes in tiny tubs their entire life so I think 30 gallons for a male might be a reasonable middle ground.

>>5095361
Why would you use snake mill breeding practices as a point of reference? Reddit says the enclosure should be about 5 feet long because that’s about the length of most adult ball pythons. The snake should be able to stretch out fully along the length of the enclosure

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>Every youtuber telling me to follow the girl that got banned for whistleblowing the reptile super show animal abuse.
>let's support her business in this trying time so she can afford her lawsuit guys
>Instagram followers blown up overnight
>instantly switches to reposting far left ICE hate videos on her stories
>argues with her customers over politics on reels
>>IDK who needs to hear this but loving plants IS political because you can't enjoy them if you're murdered by ICE
>>I'm Thai American and our husband is Latino, our WHOLE LIFE IS political
Lmao

>>5095816
I hope ICE kills them all

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It's snowing right now, where would little guys like this Italian Wall Lizard go to hide from the cold?

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>>5095863
Deeper holes in the walls, old rodent burrows, piles of wood or rocks, tree trunks, under large leaf piles. Just various frost-free places they can get into.

How do you make a hibernaculum that won't turn into a rodent nest? I don't want the sleeping snakes getting eaten by mice over the winter.

>>5095816
>reposting far left ICE hate videos on her stories
You should hate gestapo larpers, but a plant girl on social media shouldn’t be the reason

>>5095906
The level of projection and autism on her SM is starting to make me think she spergged out on the event organizers and got kicked for legitimate reasons. Anyone in the right wouldn't be trying to burn the goodwill of their followers like this, especially if you are running a business.

>>5095361
The middle ground between shitty and reasonable is just “a bit less shitty” it’s not “a reasonable middle ground”.

You’ll spend significantly more on replacement basking bulbs throughout the snake’s life than you’ll spend on a normal PVC 5x2x2. Now, if you get a male and you don’t power feed him, so he doesn’t get big, a 4x2x2 might be a reasonable middle ground, and a 4x2x2 is half the price of a 5x2x2, because the 5x2x2 advice is meant to be something that can accommodate a 99th percentile ball python and you’re aiming for like a 40th percentile snake, but a 30 gallon is a third the size of a 4x2x2, and it is ridiculous to decide that it’ll be adequate, just because the rackniggers do worse.

A 4x2x2 should comfortably accommodate a snake up to 53 inches long or so, and a 3x2x2 would be adequate for a snake with a total length of up to 42 inches long, but even a small male ball should be bigger than that as an adult.

>>5095816
god forbid people say anything that isn't about one specific topic i guess??

>>5095964
>argues with her customers over politics on reels
Its require more than room temperature IQ to understand why this is a shit idea.

are jumping spiders as good pets as they seem?

I noticed during my last feeding time my baby pear island boa swallowed a noticeably large piece of substrate. I noticed it in its neck as a bulge. I just want to know what to look out for over the coming days, impaction is obviously a risk but what else is there. I've never had this happen before so im quite worried.

Also, I can't feed her out of the enclosure or place down a mat of smooth surface to feed her on currently. Although she eats fine, it only happens when she hasnt been disturbed. If I make too much movement in the cage she gets defensive and wont eat. Meaning my optimal times to feed her are very sparse and I have to be careful.

>>5095816
You know what I can see why they decided to ban her now.

>>5095987
While they are neither reptiles nor amphibians, they are pretty easy spiders to care for. They need minimal space, an easy to set up home, and are not really picky eaters.

However, they do molt a few times, and their last molt has a pretty high chance of failing, killing the spider. They will make a little hammock nest and try to molt for up to a few weeks, not eating during this time.

Providing their molting doesn't fail, they are really chill around humans. Handle them often and they will jump onto your hand no problem.

On my third frog, thinking of getting a fourth one. I am starting to grow concerned about if I am weirdo for doing so

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Anybody know any good natural hides for a garg? Something like a coconut hide but I want it to be more untouched nature versus a carved hole, open to suggestions

>>5096910
Can never go wrong with cork rounds, if you're willing to put in more effort you can create 3D backgrounds yourself with expanding foam + silicon and attach the rounds directly to the background

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Sulcatas should be banned from normies breeding/buying them.

>>5096963
I have such a setup but also just wanted another hide to try since he mainly just hangs out in the cork round or under some leaves on the bendy vines. I guess I could just break and file the edges around the hole to make it look more accidental unless anybody has a better idea.

>>5096993
I'd like to have one, if I ever move to Florida I'll get one
It'll live in the yard though

>>5096993
I have no idea how sulcatas got so popular as pets. They're unironically some of the most destructive and stubborn reptiles on earth. Those bastards dig burrows everywhere and are so strong they can dig through concrete walls and bend metal fences. It's like having a bulldozer roaming around your yard. And sadly a lot of them don't even get proper care and end up with pyramiding.

>>5098116
Same reason red eared sliders, iguanas, or any other reptile is popular. They make a lot of cute babies.

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>>5098116
>perpetually cantankerous Killdozers that will, with proper care, outlive me twice over

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Maybe I should get a female gargoyle gecko so they can mate. Then I could just destroy the eggs since I don't want to breed them. The hairbrained theory is that animals are worse off if they do not fulfill reproductive acts similar to how it's shit to be a human incel who doesn't fuck which can affect mental and physical health. I don't want my guy to be a drydick forever and suspect that having them mate, even if the offspring are discarded, could be beneficial. Crazy idea or no?

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why is my leopard gecko the way he is

Why are mealworms orders of magnitude more expensive than crickets if they're so much easier and more convenient to culture?

>>5098116
>and are so strong they can dig through concrete walls and bend metal fences
source?

>>5098162
Leopard geckos are special......

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>>5098188

>>5098222
that's not concrete...

>>5098243
You quoted metal fences, I gave you an example I found......

>>5098152
you could end up like that one youtuber whose garg died due complications from permanent erection
https://youtu.be/JBs1MNwG3Bo?si=wWN50sfdJnkgKx_g

>>5098116
People forget that cute baby will gain at least 100lbs and live for a century. But they don't give a shit since they got the clicks and upvotes

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>>5098268
saw that before RIP Fuji lol. died doing what he loved at least. rly tho there might be some idea to having the geckos mate for health e.g. the extreme example of bimaturism in orangutans in which they stay small and beta without flanges unless they are they are the alpha with free access to females due to cortisol etc. if there's such a dramatic change in these apes then why not maybe smaller beneficial changes in other animals as well?

>>5098249
anon...
the very first thing i said...
retard...

But what if I want a big friend that will live for 100 years?

>>5098319
I read that ostriches can apparently live to be 80 when other ratites have the standard animal 20 max years

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>>5098222

>>5098319
you don't let him pyramid that badly then
and certainly not housed with another tortoise in a tiny aquarium tank

>>5098339
SMART

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>>5098339
The reptiles...they're evolving...

>>5098801
>retic
naturally

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1qwggg4/a_live_worm_escaping_through_the_gills/
Poor little bastard is fat as fuck :(

>>5098878
>lego substrate
why the fuck would you do this lol
>REEE BARE BOTTOM SUCKS
use tile then moron

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Can anyone identify? I'm pretty sure it's a Pinewoods treefrog but I'm uncertain

>>5099040
>why the fuck would you do this lol
quirk chunguses are gonna quirk chungus

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My meanest animal easily

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Bit of an alcohol fuelled post here, but I love my blue tongue.

It's taken years, but I feel like we finally have some sort of connection (was a wild blue tongue I ended up taking care of, so I only handle when changing the substrate). I like talking to him (or her) though, and definitely understands the word "food". Always funny watching the reaction where he'll start moving towards me and flicking the tongue. Has gotten bold enough where I'll be getting the food ready and he'll start climbing out the terrarium and almost fall out, but then I have to help him back in sometimes. Still has that weird autistic skink skittishness, but I love seeing that recognition when taking in my usual tone.

>>5098801
>*BANG*
>good job

>pet store out of feeder crickets
>buy waxworms
>still not moving after being at room temp for several hours
Great

>>5099411
No doubt. They have to live with arthopods that are larger than them.

Instead of misting my enclosures to no avail trying to boost the humidity, I just dump a couple of gallons of water onto the substrate and mix it around and it stays >70 for at least a week. Why did you fucking dicks not tell me to do this.

>>5099830
I genuinely have no clue why this isn't common practice, reptile keepers are just generally retarded.

>>5099839
You have no idea the retarded shit ive read trying to boost humidity in my enclosures, spend 100$ on a mister, mossages (socks filled with wet sphagnum moss), I even had some retard claim its fine to have a enclosure be at 30% humidity for a tropical snake species as long as you give it a some fuck ass humid box that grows mold and is probably as hot as an oven for the snake. I just realized today for whatever reason the only time I have stable humidity is when I place down fresh substrate from an eco earth brick. Had a little light bulb moment.

>>5099842
the humid hide is tried and true, it's a thing
but yes, it's absurd seeing people spend hundreds on misting systems, constantly spraying water and wondering why mold grows, without ever actually thinking about what actually happens when it rains. Oh we need 3 inches of clay balls for a drainage layer, you know, so the tiny drops of water from the spray bottle will have somewhere to go when they seep all the way down through the dirt into the bottom of the tank

>b-but if I do that the ground will be wet all the time
these people are trying to keep an entire animal, sometimes hordes of animals. when they've never even kept proper care of a plant and it shows

>>5099830
>>5099839
>>5099843
I came into this thread to post about how happy I feel getting an automatic misting system up and running for less than $50 compared to the $200 brands people shill all the time.

But just as a quick aside, if you drown the substrate with water you will still cause potential issues with mold as well as potentially killing cleaning crew with each cycle. Also if you place humidity a sensor near the soil it won't read air humidity but the humidity from the surface soil. This isn't a problem with terrestial herps however that burrow.

>>5099898
As we all know, worms isopods and springtails famously go through mass population declines and are found dead en masse whenever it rains
Isopods famous for HATING water and soil that is too wet.

>>5099909
I thought woodlice drown

>>5099915
it is in fact possible for them to drown
it's also possible for them to dig upward and sit under rocks, leaves and wood if you actually deliberately try to turn your terrarium into a fish tank instead of just saturating the soil

I can't take snake people seriously when they rave about how intelligent species like cribo and indigo snakes are.

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>>5093967
Guess it's here to stay for a while

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>>5100006
>OH MOI HECKIN' CRIBOI

>>5099843
I must of not conveyed what I was trying to say effectively, I never meant to say humid hides were a bad thing. Its just when the ambient humidity is far lower than what is required and someones only solution is to other a humid hide was a problem.
>>5099898
I replace the substrate every two to three months, it would be monthly if prices were not so high. Im not really concerned with mould. It only grows when there is not enough circulation in the enclosure.

>>5099898
I also don't really give a shit about isopods I dont use them. Don't know why you brought it up

>>5100154
You don't use clean up crew?

>>5100163
Nope

>>5100164
Huh. Just me then

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>>5093568
Here is a Cottonmouth AKA Water moccasin, I took this picture on a cool April morning just a few miles south of Muskogee Oklahoma on a paved road goes to a boat ramp on the Arkansas River he was warming himself on the pavement lots of snakes get run over that way,

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shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop shlop

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They always look like they're perpetually grinning.

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Neat reptile spotted today.
Can anybody ID it?
iNaturalist says it’s in the Anoles genus.

>>5101162
What region? Def an anole.

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>>5101165
Dominican Republic in the Punta Cana region.
Here’s another lizard I’ve spotted
>janjan having a meltdown and falsely wiping posts

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>>5101102
I don't get how one could hate reptiles.

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>>5101225
Just discovered today that Bearded Dragons "wave" at other animals/things

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So he doesn't 'love' you, but does he 'like' you?

>>5101225
well they are mostly soulless idiots and arguably it's immoral to even feed higher-brained beings like mammals to them since it's basically like throwing a puppy in a blender. i did not think i would like reptiles for this reason but ended up with a gecko because all the similar sized small mammal pets had issues i didn't care for (like being more social/perhaps less suited to captivity than people say) or were lame.

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Well once I upgrade my Ackie and Carinata, this will be the set up.
No Clue what I'd put in the 2 empty enclosures.

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>>5101670
big fukken frog

My chameleon died last night. Raised him from an egg. You couldn't ask for a better and more personable chameleon.
Seemed happy and eating with a strong grip a few days ago
Such fragile little babies, thought I'd have at least a couple more years with him.
He's in his pajama colors.

>>5101918
My young Pixie passed away recently, so I'm kinda afraid to get any amphibians again anytime soon.

>>5101670
fire skink or kenyan zebra skink

I can't stand minimal enclosure sizes
>NOOO A BEARDED DRAGON WILL FUCKING DIE IN A 4x2x2 IT NEEDS A 6x2x4!
>You're gonna put a crested gecko in a 18x18x24? Yikes, animal abuse
These people need to be fucking killed. Yeah bigger is better, is but as long as an animal can eat, shit, sleep, thermoregulate and get excersize they're perfectly fine.
A bearded dragon might have a 2 square mile "territory" in the wild, but it's not racing back and forth between that radius and climbing every tree.

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Caiman lizard anon's posts got me watching these guys on YouTube and want one now. I like snails too bro.

>>5101934
RIP

>>5102244
>but as long as an animal can eat, shit, sleep, thermoregulate and get excersize they're perfectly fine.

says who? a lot of exotics are barely even understood so every single advantage you can give them seems advisable. and it's not like they can tell you shit sucks.

>>5093568
This has nothing to do with proving that cats are inferior to dogs. Take your off-topic shitposting elsewhere.

>>5102254
???

>Dog vs Cat redditor console war fights have gotten /herp/ into the crossfire
FML

>>5102258
idk what he meant by this. i just put a cat gecko in the OP because i have a (different) gecko and they are cool.

>>5101506
Reptile lives matter.

>>5101506
>live insanely short lives, closer in scale to that of insects than most other animals
>reproduce prodigiously
>are the natural prey to basically everything that can possibly eat them, up to and including other larger rodents
If it can be said that any animal is made for a specific purpose, mice and rats are certainly made specifically to be eaten by other animals. I wont deny theyre certainly cute and fully accept they have some level of sociability and even intelligence, and I'm sure the people that have them as pets love them as much as any other critter, but they're food animals.

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>>5102548
>they're food animals.

a statement that doesn't really mean much if the subject is whether or not torturing shit to death for fun is good, what *is* versus what could be are different things. it is just a matter of temperament/amoral consideration but nonetheless people who think this way are the source of the majority of human suffering as well in indirect ways that you'll have to read more about on my substack. life is about choosing the change you want to see in the world and you have chosen this for some reason. i don't have this issue since my gecko won't eat anything i haven't squeezed the juice out through the neck of and held on tongs anyway.

if you justify creating cartel.mp4 on other mammals because uh they're food or whatever it happens all the time, then, You Are Gay. that said i don't come here to shit up a thread by insulting a majority who disagree so whatever just ignore this or whatever i'm not saying having a snake makes you evil necessarily

*burp*

>>5102574
Oh its this retarded pseud. Moral hierarchy of assumed intelligence tard.

People feeding snakes mice arent the source of most human suffering. Unless i missed something in the talmud.

>>5102580
i said amoral consideration for a reason and moral realism is retarded anyway. ultimately when you decide "lmao reality ain't fair life's a bitch faggot get tortured to death" you can't really get all weepy when that energy is reflected in your own life and/or society.

>buuhuu my 5 year old was raped to death in the street by a junkie

well the junkie did the same calculation and decided life's a bitch ain't it. you make such events more likely, indirectly, though mysterious forces when you
>literally torture shit to death for fun

arguing that you have should have some special exemption, based on moral math, that actually it's good for everything else to get tortured to death for no reason or even for your own unnecessary, frivolous pleasure on occasion, is just cope by moral realists who wish to behave like children. you stand for slop, and are a slop person, and degrade your civilization with your psychotic misery creation.

>>5102584
Hey retard, society runs excellently on assemblies of laws with zero consistency with your retarded overly abstracted moral logicality. Your thought is unnecessary and unproductive. A pseudo-intellectual refuge for a weak ego, even.

Morality can not be logical. To live itself is illogical. It is arbitrary, inconsistent, and feelings based and always will be. The most important part of morality is not your pseuding, but the natural instincts of the people that comprise society.

those who can’t comprehend the nature of creation instead seek to impose rules upon it and claim that if they are not followed, there can be no rules at all

you see this a lot, even among self defense brahs
>the logical conditions for a self defense shoot have been met. if i do not shoot, it is questionable if i even need this right. *kapow* -just shot a drunk guy for walking forwards and holding a knife
entitled moral crusaders religiously applying ideals sans context because it makes them feel smart important

reptphibians?

>>5102642
Silence, Discussions about rat-rights in reptilian society are a serious matter

>>5102590
>Hey retard, society runs excellently on assemblies of laws with zero consistency with your retarded overly abstracted moral logicality.

i was saying morals don't exist tho

>>5102674
"rat rights" are bullshit until CUCs can form unions without accidentally being crushed when you move a piece of wood around

>>5102765
Objective, rational morals dont exist because there is no rational, objective reason for nature, or us, to exist. The decision to weigh a rodent against the continued life of a reptile is arbitrary and emotional regardless of the choice. Ultimately we benefit from maintaining a stock of our native reptiles but not so much from keeping a mouse around. If mice have souls, free them from being trapped inside mice.

Is it possible to keep a gecko in a household with cats or is it too risky?

>>5102812
If you feel you can prevent the Geck from ever escaping and the cat from ever breaking in, sure. If the Cat doesn’t even have access to the room with the Gecko, even better. When I lived at home, I never lost any anoles or fish or anything else to my mom’s cats. The cats were not allowed in my room where my animals were and I did a good job keeping my animals contained.
It seems like so many cat owners these days refuse to restrict their cats from anywhere in their home, and that makes it a lot harder to keep other small animals if you live like that though.
It’s one of the reasons why a cat is a relationship deal breaker for me, I have yet to meet a woman under 40 who thinks that it’s acceptable for me to say that parts of the house are off limits to her cat.

>>5102674
I actually don't think it's good to give live rats to reptiles at all. There has been cases where rats have severely injured and even actually killed the snakes they were fed to. Unless your pet is built like a tank or is significantly larger then mice are a safer pick.

>>5102818
I just ordered a terrarium, I hope I didn't make a mistake

I just got a Chahoua gecko. Shes a female about 8 months old. I have her in a 18X18X36. I have a 36x18x36 I will move her into once I get a table or terrarium stand than can hold it.

How often do I need to mist the cage? I am in Southern California and it's dry here. Near the coast.

I've been misting her in the morning then in the late afternoon like around 4-5 PM. That being two times a day total.

>>5103456
well the risks are on you, no reason you can't just keep the cat out of the area. having that little lizard anywhere near it is a terrible idea.

>>5101670
I'd just put the western banded in the 3' enclosure. 12"x12" just feels way to small for just about anything.

>>5103531
Get a hygrometer. No one could ever possibly give you accurate advice otherwise.
Govee is a reliable brand.

>>5103571
I thought of a solution to keep the terrarium unacessible but in the worst case I will rehome the lizard.

>>5103603
He's only three inches long head to tail.

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My sister impulse bought a turtle then got bored of him and left him in my care. That was 9 years ago. It's crazy how the time flies. I've never been a pets person, and I'm still not really fond of dogs or cats, but it's been kinda fun taking care of my turtle.
I might buy a snake one day

>>5103917
Coincidentally, that's how I acquired my tortoise. It's been about 13 years, here. I've now also got 6 lizards and a ball python.

>>5103951
Nice. I guess I should ask if I should be taking my turtle to the vet regularly. He's always seemed fine so I never have. Also, my mom wants to take him out of his tank, but that makes me paranoid because I lost him once. Is that a good idea?

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My new Chahuoa gecko.

>>5104842
looks like he was dipped in cheetos dust.

>>5104852
Yeah she looks orangish kind of in that picture. She is probably a female, only 8 months. The breeder tried to see what gender she was.

>>5104842
Can a chahoua gecko female lay eggs with no male present? As in, infertile eggs or the shit like mourning geckos where they fertilize the egg with their own DNA as a female, parthogenosis or something.

those who have live plants in your terrariums, what kind of light do you use?

I come from fish tanks, i have no knowledge about terrarium lights dont even know where to start

>>5104842
HE CUTE
YOU TELL HIM I SAY HE CUTE

>>5104866
She should stop diving into cheetos bags. Might get a bizarre case of lizard diabetes.

>>5104881
The uv light that is a hrad requirement will provide the uv and brightness, along with the heat lamp
that will be perfectly sufficient for tropical plants, which is what you'll be using. Stuff like pothos or snake plants an grow with fucking any sliver of light. Just don't try to grow succulents without a proper light and it'll be fine.

>>5105286
I meant spider plants, don't grow a snake plant in a terrarrium

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>>5105286
>>5105287
Thanks. So I don't need a full spectrum light like this?

>>5105337
the uv light is going to provide anything these will provide

>>5104876
Parthogenosis is almost always a possibility, but infertile slugs are much more likely.

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What is your favorite herp?

Dragon snakes for me. They're the coolest looking snakes out there.

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>>5093568
>alligator
>seafood
Do alligators live in the sea? Asking for a friend.

>>5105560
Curly tailed lizards. Someday I will move to Florida and feed them mealworms from my porch.

Are compact uvb bulbs as bad as they say? That's all I can find for sale, I am planning for a crested gecko.

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>>5094148
>What do?
Stop poaching wildlife and you will no longer cause such problems.

>>5105560
Salamandrina terdigitata, an endemic species of my country and a member of the most ancient salamandrid lineage on Earth. I photographed this one today, the stream was full of them.

>>5094148
try grindal worms or micro worms