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Red-Footed Tortoise Chelonoidis carbonaria

Red-Footed Tortoise Chelonoidis carbonaria

The Red-Rooted Tortoise is a medium sized species from South America that averages in size from 12-16 inches in length. It is one of the more commonly found tortoises in the pet trade due to its relatively small adult size. Its bright, ...

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The Uromastyx Lizard as an alternative exotic pet

The Uromastyx Lizard also known as the spiny tailed lizard is a small agamid found in North Africa and the Middle East. They are an herbivorous lizard that have a diet consisting of flowers, plants and seeds and tend to spend their time basking ...

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Baby Savannah Monitor Lizards as pets – learn before you buy

Baby Savannah Monitor Lizards as pets – learn before you buy

Its spring time and baby lizards and snakes of all types are beginning to show up in captive collections and at wholesalers across the country. As one of the staples of the pet reptile market, baby Savannah Monitor Lizards have been farm bred ...

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The appeal of the Asian rat snake and what makes it so special

The appeal of the Asian rat snake and what makes it so special

The Asian Rat Snake is hitting the US pet market with a strong force at a time when most colubrid species and colubrid morphs seem to have been played out. What seems to be triggering this interest is the natural beauty and unnatural adult size ...

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The Blue tongue skink is all the rage but do they make good pets?

There have been many waves of fad pets in the reptile industry over the last few years. These waves have included such favorites as the Burmese Python, the Leopard Gecko, The Australian pythons as a group and the Ball Python and its many color ...

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The many uses of the beautiful Pied Ball Python

There are Ball Pythons and then there is the Pied Ball Python and simply put it is the most striking and attractive of the morphs out there. It has been crossed into everything from Albino to Clown and so far every new combination looks like a ...

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Has the end come for reptiles for sale online?

Has the end come for reptiles for sale online?

There is no shortage of reptiles for sale and despite common belief the sky is not crashing in on online sales. There are numerous ways for the public to buy reptiles online, everything from websites and online market places to forums and social ...

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The Leucistic Ball Python is so much more than just a beautiful white snake

The Leucistic Ball Python is so much more than just a beautiful white snake

The Blue Eyed Leucistic Ball Python is not only a crowd favorite but also our number one selling snake and when you consider all of the potential that one of these snakes holds it is easy to see why they are so much more than just a beautiful ...

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The Spotted Python, Children’s Python and other small Australian Pythons

The Spotted Python, Children’s Python and other small Australian Pythons

The word Python brings up a couple of very strong thoughts in the minds of people who hear it, the first thought being constrictor and the second being large. Although the Spotted Python and the Children’s Python are both constrictors they are ...

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The dynamic Mojave Ball Python, where would we be without it?

The dynamic Mojave Ball Python, where would we be without it?

There are hundreds of ball python morphs in existence today but only a few are as versatile and as necessary in making beautiful combos as the Mojave ball python. We need to look at the origin and the path this morph has taken to fully ...

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