Reptile Articles

It’s hard to decide what the most interesting thing about these incredible animals is. Is it their amazing ability to play dead? Is it their impressive number of color and pattern morphs or is it the fact that at least one person has succumbed ...

There are 17 steps in the production of melanin in Ball Pythons. Melanin is what gives all organisms their color and a break anywhere in this pathway will result in an amelanistic or Albino Ball Python. Since there are so many possible ways to ...

Ask most people in the reptile hobby that question and you will be surprised how integral boas have been in the complete herp experience. Going back to the 50’s and 60’s the old-timers will tell you of the days when boas were sold by the foot ...

Once considered the holy grail of all snakes, the Leucistic Ball Python otherwise known as the Lucy Ball is still a showstopper and wanted by many reptile pet owners and collectors. Considered by many breeders as the ultimate in ball python ...

We are thrilled as an exotic pet store to be attending our third reptile show in 2015, which will be the NARBC Tinley Park Reptile Show in Illinois. The NARBC show groups have been going on for the last fifteen years in multiple states across ...

When you mention boas to most people the image of a large heavy bodied constrictor basking on the forest floor usually comes to mind. There is however an entire sub family of boas that is found from Europe to Asia and North Africa that is ...

Well friends we are gearing up for our second reptile show in 2015 and will be attending the Repticon reptile show located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for the first time in our companies history. We most recently attended the NRBE or National ...

Like a multitude of other flora and fauna South American Black and White Tegus have come to call South Florida their home away from home. This stocky member of the Teiidae family can grow up to four feet in length and is speckled black and white ...

There are very few people who own reptiles today that have not at one time or another kept a Green Iguana as a reptile pet. I can say that I had a tame five-foot Green Iguana roaming my house and sleeping behind the couch. He was paper-trained ...

Out of the thousands of reptiles currently in my care the hands down favorites have got to be my 11-year-old pair of Aldabra Pet Tortoises. These two shy behemoths make me stop and think about where I was back in 2005 when I first got them and ...