Day Gecko Editionprevious: >>4899938This thread is dedicated to all animals of the Reptilia and Amphibia classes. Topics include, but are not limited to: geckos, snakes of all kinds, frogs, salamanders, newts, turtles, tortoises, and much more. Before asking a question, do a search on the internet to see if it has been answeredClassifieds for finding breeders and products:>morphmarket.com>kingsnake.com>faunaclassifieds.com>caudata.orgMost forums will have a "for sale" section on them, so look for that, especially if you have a specific herp you want. Craigslist can also be a good source for cheap aquariums, and make sure to check for any reptile expos that occur in your area.When asking a question, make sure to include these details:>Type and size of animal>Enclosure dimensions>Humidity and temperature>Type of substrate>The decor you use>How often you feed>The type of food you use>If your animal is wild caught or captive bred>How often you handle>Who you bought the animal fromOther Helpful Resourceswww.blackjungleterrariumsupply.comwww.joshsfrogs.comhttp://www.reptilesmagazine.comhttp://www.anapsid.orghttp://www.hylid.clara.co.uk/caer.htmhttps://www.americanmadeexotics.com/breeding-ball-pythons-article.html
Rate one of my Thanksgiving Hors d'oeuvres
Someday I'll build a heated greenhouse and turn it into a mixed species enclosure.
>>4912217looks nutritious
>>4912217>Need little space>get stupid fat without hormones>braindead barely sentient creatures that don't need to be social or see the sun>make hundreds on hundreds of babies at oncewhy exactly do we not farm frogs?>
>>4912277We do, but it's a pain in the ass and you get the equivalent to two small chicken wings per animal.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoTHjBptTog
>>4912282Saw this post after looking it up https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/mv3gh1/frog_breeding_factory/a bunch of the comments were saying how cruel and horrible it is when the frogs are literally just... sitting there. Not restrained, not even a mesh covering, could literally jump out at any time.Like, factory farming is definitely cruel, when it's to specific animals. Frogs are absurdly retarded, it's like factory farming insects or worms.
>>4912284How do they make sure they're all fed?
>>4912300The weak ones get eaten by the bigger frogs
>>4912284Those places are disease beds filled with filth, no animal should be subjected to that especially when it poses a contamination risk to the surrounding wild frogs
>>4912308>Those places are disease beds filled with filthas opposed to natural ponds and swamps, famous for not being filled with any animal poop or pee at all
>>4912115I'm really bad at finding snakes other than northern water snake.
>>4912284>a bunch of the comments were saying how cruel and horrible it is when the frogs are literally just... sitting there. Not restrained, not even a mesh covering, could literally jump out at any time.Amphibian mating day is a wonderful day but that's way too many frogs for that space. Even American toads in the wild don't form clusters that dense (and I've seen 10,000s in one pond at a time).It also depends on the species of frog. Some frogs, like bull and green frogs, form mating territories and call from those rather than do a massive orgie like wood frogs and american toads.
>>4912300Those kind of frogs eat each other.
>>4912310No they aren’t, because natural ponds and swamps are self cleaning and don’t have thousands of frogs permanently trapped in them
Most protein hungry isopods?
>>4912561If I recall right, P. Laevis can actually take chunks out of smaller, softer bodied reptiles like mourning geckos if the dont get sufficient protein, though my source for that is "offhand mention in an aquarimax pets video I dont recall the topic of"
>>4912599that seems to be everyone's reccomendation, looking for something to eat mealworm eggs so the whole tank doesn't become a flood of noncompeting detritivores who won't cull each other, but then i might run into the issue of the isopods beating everything if nothing else eats themecosystems are hard :c
>>4912599>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jqMKL2vaE>colony can completely consume a pinky mouse in a few hoursGuess I was right. Also holy fuck.
>>4912601keep the isopods sperate and cull the mealworm eggs yourself? Lots of people that culture mealworms have a multi-tiered system with windowscreen bottoms so the eggs and young fall through into a separate container, maybe you can do similar.
>>4912604not to be rude anon but i really didn't think i'd have to specify that i meant for a terrarium as opposed to a feeder setup
>>4912599>>4912603My colony has grown to the point where I have to feed them stray cats to keep them sated. I forgot to feed them one time and they very nearly tried to attack the local kindergarten
>>4912605understandable, but since the overwhelming majority of mealworms are kept in a feeder setup, without context people are just gonna assume.Is your population even to the point where you would need to consider predators in the first place? I have to assume the population wouldnt be as high in a more naturalistic environment as it would in a bin full of oatmeal for somewhat obvious reasons. you might just be able to control the population yourself/introduce cannibalism via controlling the food supply.
>>4912611>Is your population even to the point where you would need to consider predators in the first place?Not currently no, but I'm still planning. I will be introducing superworms soon once I can get them to pupate, which I'm told will readily eat mealworms, (though I have yet to see any cannibalism among them, even on a very dark and clearly not well individual), but then I don't know if the mealworms would eat the superworms. Since I want isopods for variety anyway, I figured I should go with one that could help the cycle of everyone eating each other. I'm not sure if supers OR meals would eat isopod young though. >I have to assume the population wouldn't be as high in a naturalistic environmentWould it not be if it's constantly stocked with food? I've seen them eating everything from leaf litter to chewing on wood to mushrooms (no eating dead darklings that had bad molts though)
>>4912601>ecosystems are hard :cmakes you start to appreciate God
Never had fungus gnats before.Got substrate from an expo.I haven't gotten rid of the fungus gnats since.
>>4912634There are nematodes you can buy which will murder all gnat larvae.
>>4912636And this has no impact on other things, like isopods or springtails? Do the nematodes just die out after consuming all the fly larvae? No impact on the reptile itself?
>>4912638https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022201108000207Well, seems like they can infest certain species of isopods, but ultimately not reproduce with them as hosts. I used Steinernema feltiae in tanks with white dwarf isopods years ago and they're still alive.
>>4912638Definitely won’t hurt the reptile and likely won’t damage any other inverts, especially not super prolific springtails/isos like tropical and dwarf whites
Is keeping a superworm alone good enough for pupation or does it have to feel a certain level of tight and secure?The only one I've had begin the process was in an opaque cup with less surface area as opposed to the larger clear containers I've had the other ones in and I was wondering if that had anything to do with it?? Should I try lids?
>>4912860cover it in a bit of substrate and see if that helps. they dont have film containers or whathaveyou in the wild so I assume they make due with just burrowing themselves.
Have you boys ever tried shipping animals over morphmarket or other such sites?I always feel it's a bit excessively stressful, and as such, I've never tried. Though, this does limit me significantly in the variety of species I might come across. Expos, as always, are flooded with BPs and crested geckos. Specifically, I was considering looking into a green keel-bellied lizard. Thinking I might just have to be patient and see what I'm able to find over the next few months/year. Nearest breeder advertised on MorphMarket is about 800 miles away.
>thought I was increasing humidity by leaving the bathroom open with the toilet up>it was actually adding a third vent of hot dry airI hate this, outside it's air that's dry cause its freezing and inside everyone gets desert sandblasted all dayMaybe I should just keep the vents permanently covered like in Summer
I have 2 snakes who are difficult eaters. one is difficult because he's old as fuck and the other is difficult because he's retarded. they both actually ate tonight and I'm happy!
>>4913127Leave a cup full of water out on your desk, measure the space from the top of the glass, then leave it for 24 hours and see how much evaporated. You'll see that it's basically fucking nothing.You need to actively put moisture in the air, passive evaporation does dick. Get a humidifier, and dont skimp on it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHeehYYgl28
>>4912308It was a facility or lab like that which the fungus that wiped out the golden toad came from?
>>4913680>lived in a 4 square kilometer range>lived next to a third world shitholethey never stood a chance
Any ideas for something I could put in a 40 gallon?
>>4913765Dune gecko
I'm starting to think I'm being too paranoid about pesticides and organic considering one banana peel and one tomato caused an instantaneous fruit fly explosion on my desk
>>4913765A reticulated pythin
>>4913765Fully grown python
Am I just doomed to have fruit flies forever How am I supposed to let feeders have readily available food without flies having a constant food source
>>4913765Sulcata tortoise.
>>4913765Mud or musk turtle.
>>4913911Feed less fruits or just refresh them constantly
>Got new crickets>Cleaning out the contrainer for them>Have a few left over so I feed them to my skink>She's ""tong trained"" in the sense that she bites the tongs upon seeing them even if there's nothing on them>Anyways I feed her like the five left>Go to pull my hand out so I can closer her door>She sees my finger moving and grabs onto it thinking it's a big ass cricket or something>Pulls on it and crunches it>Yelp and pull my finger back and after a moment of tug of war she lets go and goes to bite the empty tongs>Look at my finger>Two little teeth marks with blood but nothing else except pain from her jaws crushing my finger>FFW 15 minutes>Finger still hurts
>>4913871>>4913883>>4913954epic.
They weren't kidding about pet store "jumbo" mealworms being hormone treated mutants, their offspring's pupae are TINY in comparison
>>4913109I bought my ball python from someone on the other side of the country via Morphmarket and had him shipped to a Fedex hub. He arrived safely and ate the first time I offered him frozen thawed, obviously your mileage may vary based on the seller and their shipping methods and lizards seem like they would be more easily stressed than snakes. I also wouldn't ship in the dead of winter or during a heat wave. I dunno man there's people that ship birds successfully which seems like total insanity to me, but I have a lonely diamond dove I inherited and none of the stores here sell any.
King Rat just constricted his Rat and then T posed one me like he was gonna mug me for more of them with his non existent arms. What's happening to my children, they're becoming rebellious.
>>4914156This post could have been one line
>>4913765a single betta fish (male)
>>4913765Dozen Odessa barbs, two dozen rummynose tetras, and a quartet of panda garras.
>>4913765ten Florida bark scorpions
>>4913765skonkledonk
>spend years with all kinds of cool reptiles>still smile the most when I see my plain boring geckos How do the little retards do it?
Ok but what ifI put one singular piece of fruit in the house in the gecko tank to attract all the flies so he can eat them
>>4915096this is the kinda thing that you just try instead of asking about it.
>>4915096Nah man, start a gecko colony in your house
I THOUGHT IT WAS OATMEAL DUST AND FRASS IT WAS FUCKING GRAIN MITES AAAAAAhow expensive is pea flour
>female gargoyle started laying her first infertile eggs right in front of meuwu~guess it's safe to assume she's ready to breed. unfortunately she's still in a temp 20 gallon enclosure until spring. I don't feel comfortable trying to cohab her with my male in a 18x18x24 because he's much larger and well established in there. Planning on getting like a 4x2x2 or something similar for them this spring.
>>4915504how much does she weigh? not quoting leafystreet as the bible or anything but he made sure both geckos were at least 50 grams before introducing them (and then the male prolapsed one of his hemipenes and fucking DIED so keep in mind shit like that can happen too)
>>4915586no clue, haven't weighed her in awhile. I'll only worry about that before introducing them. If she's underweight I'll just move her to the male's old enclosure to bulk her up. He's about a year older than she is and definitely full size, I don't handle him that much though because he's not a fan.
>>4915655>Mmm Pothos!Looks like you might need a few of those hanging baskets so you can rotate them through your skinktorium and back out to regrow as they demolish the next one
>>4915655The infnite food glitch
It has been nearly 6 months since all my bsfl escaped the food bowl and new pupated flies are STILL emerging every few weeks
Superworms are such a pleasing color after they molt, like a delicious cream or white chocolate
>>4915840I think that whenever I see a fresh roach in my colony.
>>4915464Do people seriously throw out and restart colonies because of these things? Putting a cup of water in the bin, hot water rinsing it every morning and I'm already seeing a visible reduction in mites on the outside of it after like, a day and a half.A new generation of pupae just hatched just fine too. How are these wiping people's colonies out?
>>4915951I wonder if they taste differentI also wonder if Supers reach a point of no return when it comes to grubhood, twice now I've put in the longest super in the bin, and it just molts to get even bigger, while another smaller one will curl into The Circle
>>4916111They're softer, herps would probably appreciate them
>>4916228As far as I know they specifically seek out fresh moltsI meant if they'd taste different to us
>>4916245try it
>>4916247later, each super is precious to me until they start having sex
>hides 22 hours a day>comes out just to strike posesI wish my camera and lights were better
You guys, how do I get my snake to stop shoving dirt up her nose when she digs? Her sneezing fits are breaking my heart.
>>4916346You accept that she doesn't have hands and is retardedthinner substrate would get into her lungs and she probably can't dig through clay because she, again, doesn't have arms
>>4916346Snakes can sneeze?
>4 months of living in a completely predator free environment where nothing comes close to touching her>still convinced if she sees anything move she has to go back in the hole for an entire daybut why
>>4916586a four year old has never in its entire life had something stalk in the shadows trying to eat it, but it's still afraid of the dark.
>>4916602Is there a single wild animal that's afraid of the dark
>>4916608no idea. maybe some diurnal species? the point is that instincts are hard to change, especially when they're ones where just deciding "fuck it it's fine" one day could get them killed if it is not in fact fine.Be patient.
This is my Giant Day Gecko I just got last month who I've named Gex. He was missing his tail when we got him, but he was one of the most interesting lizards at the store so decided to get him. Since then his tail has been regrowing and he loves to eat and is extremely personable so has 0 issues eating out of hand. I love this guy.
>>4917043His tail slowly healing.
>>4917043A personable day gecko is one hell of a unicorn. Hope he stays well.
How do I stop the insects in the food bowl from giving up and going still waiting for death after a couple hours
Small terrestrial lizards or snakes that aren't arid or tropical?
bp vomited a sliver of rat? just some skin and a foot? what's up with that? turned the heat pad up a little
>>4917210garters, grass snakes, wall lizards, jewlled lacerta if you want to go a little bigger than small. loads of euro species.
>>4917302oh yeah also arguably leopard geckos since they're found is pretty temperate and even dampish forests in their range as well.
>>4917308Smaller than a leo
>>4917310shit, that narrows it down a bit. wall lizard maybe?
>>4917313Even if unpopular easy to care for cheap lizards like this weren't impossible to find for no reason, wall lizards specifically are apparently considered very invasive in a lot of places and there's no way I'd be able to get it shipped
>>4917320smaller skink species? five lined, maybe?I think you might be shit out of luck, really. "Temperate lizard" is hard enough on its own, but adding "smaller than most commonly kept species" and "not hard to get" basically narrows it down to nothing at all.
>>4917340also keep in mind that temperate species are still going to need basking temps in the low to mid 90's more often than not (apart from new celedonian geckos, which are all too big for you)
>>4917341I can do temperature, the reason i asked about arid/tropical was humidity is very hard to regulate in the setup I'd want to potentially populate, with all the factors in and around it it can genuinely swing from a nighttime humidity of 30 to 90 depending on the time of yearI guess I should have asked about herps that have a huge range of humidity tolerance, but as far as I know there's like, practically none aside from exactly leopard geckos.
>>4917346that does widen your range a bit, as most equatorial regions have dry/rainy seasons rather than hot/cold.
>>4917353african or south american animals then?
>>4917355SE asia also.
>>4917210African fat-tailed gecko. Like a leo but slightly smaller and cuter
>>4917377You know I've always thought fat tails were ugly and plain but they seem to look constantly smug and that's pretty neat
What's the largest thing you've fed to your herps?
>>4917392Madeleine McCann
>>4917392carpet python took a gigaXL hamster once
>>4917381mine does this really cute tail shake before striking at a bug
I want to ask if it's wrong to withhold food to encourage exploring even though I know it's not but I'd still like to hear others' thoughts about itDaves Beastie Room was talking about how he only feeds his spiders when they're actually going about hunting, which has a feedback loop where they spend more time outside, so they get more used to the environment and bolder, along with them getting exercise
>>4917392Small mouse, one time my day gecko grabbed a roach that was way too big for his mouth I guess.
>>4917689
>>4917581To the contrary, there's probably a pretty decent argument to be made for ONLY feeding your animal when it's actively looking for food if you want them to truly replicate their natural behaviors, though that can probably vary by exactly what animal you're keeping. Herbivores would probably naturally fall into a schedule on their own (wake up, warm up, monch leaf), but (while I dont know if anyone done any kind of dopamine studies or anything) for predators the search, acquistion and consumption of food is probably the one of the few actually gratifying experiences they have. That said, some more food driven animals like frogs and some snakes will go full Vladimir Harkonnen if they ate whenever they searched for food, so a schedule there is probably more optimal.Not this is also not an endorsement of live feeding rodents to snakes. Snakes are ambush predators, not pursuit predators, so looking around and going "oh fuck a mouse CHOMP" is pretty much the exact same thing to the snake whether the rodent is alive or not. Wiggle it a bit once it's grabbed if you feel like they need to fight for it.
>>4917689Somebody should edit that one and use this image.
https://youtu.be/F6_TlgreJ08?si=xNgoq-Os4IekDskj
While I'm annoyed that dubias are escaping again at 2am when I have to wake up for work in 5 hours and cant find my scissors, its cute that they're like cats where the moment they actually get outside they're just scared and confused and just sit there instead of sprinting around at mach 5 like they started doing the moment I put them back in
>>4917836You know if I wasn't paranoid about listening to for the direction of their sounds or if they sound "muffled enough" they'd be really nice to fall asleep to, they literally sound like the oceanUsually they're not nearly this insane though
If I started giving a shit about my insects my herps might never eat again
Is this guy ok? He looks a little dry.
>>4917845he lives underground, the dirt covering is part and parcel.
Please stop making frogs seem so charming I cannot keep a swamp wet enough
i enjoy that one frogpost always makes frog gang rise up and take over the thread for a bit.
>>4917794
Are rocks important for soil health?
My frog Gamabunta being a wise sage of the bonsai
Can't even pretend this one is herp related because its not about feedersToday I learned Horrid Kings are kept in colonies which makes me instantaneously want to build one but apparently they're solitary in the wild? But they also do perfectly well and breed prolifically in a colony setting? It's weird, this insect is very popular and yet people seem to say everything about it, keep them bone dry, they do fine with humidity, but their eggs NEED humidity, solitary insects that do not live in colonies but are kept in colonies and are proven to do well.I'm probably just overthinking a very hardy and easy to keep animal but I do wonder if I'd be giving them a bad but livable life vs a good one.
>>4918130I kept them years ago. They are perfectly fine in groups. If one is feeding others may join in on the sucking and it doesn't even bother it. Just put a lot of bark pieces in the tank so they have enough surface area and hiding spots to move around, lining the tank walls with pressed cork is also a good way to give them more space to move. Keeping one spot in the soil always moist or having a separate dish of soil where they can lay the eggs is good enough, once they get going they'll breed like crazy.
>>4918141Ty anon, I will now officially start looking for bark sheetsI find it weird they're considered hard desert species ala death feigners when they exclusively live in logs and trees and need moisture to breed
>>4918130considering what you're saying is VERY similar to the kind of stuff you hear about leopard geckos: >they're a solitary arid species that likes it hot>they also live in temperate forests and are tolerant to temperatures close to freeing at night>and they also live in colonies in old wallsThe situation is likely the same with these bugs - there is no one optimal solution (or at least not one we've found) because they're generalists that do really well in a variety of situations.
>>4918108chemically no, or at least not in the timescales you'd be dealing with in a vivarium. Mechanically maybe, as they can provide gaps for bugs to shelter in, trap moisture beneath them, and in some cases actually act as a moisture reservoir themselves if they're absorbent.
>>4918237Wouldn't any object at all serve most of those purposes though
>>4918242rocks are free, though.
>>4917848Even with that being said the little guy in your photo still looks moist, the one I posted seems like he needs to soak in some water for a while before he dries out and dies.
Can frogs breathe underwater?
>>4918335Yes, but how effective they are varies and they generally can't do it indefinitely outside of hibernation. One notable exception are scrotum frogs, the lake they are endemic to is high in oxygen and their flappy skin is rich in blood vessels, which makes them able to never need to surface.
>>4915086they qt
As if species laws weren't enough, it's absurdly annoying that morphmarket forces you to search by "US and Canada", making genuinely 99% of the posts just previews of things you can't have.
>>4918455Apparently you can get canadian stores specifically if you google it, but there's no way to filter that on the site itself.Also apparently it is literally all ball pythons, just nothing but ball pythons.
>>4918455If it helps, you can't get packages in or out of Canada right now because postal workers are mad they're poors
>>4918582Oh I overheard people talking about that, those people make double minimum wage.
ok its been 3 weeks since my day gecko that's terrified of me ate, he only eats crickets. would honey or a roach be a better bet for trying to get him to eat from tongs
>>4918604you could try waxworms, a lot of herps really like them as treats
Caught this lil fella stealing
>>4918676Let him steal
>>4918676must be magical having these fat fellas just roaming around outside
>>4918690I envy people who don't have winter
>>4918690Just move to the literal desert it's that easy.
Why do I feel like I'm not supposed to rehome my animal even if I'd vet the person and would make sure they know what they're doing? I know I have no reason to feel bad and yet I do
>>4918908>grow attachment to animal>why do I feel bad losing an attachmentIt's not that complex anon. Personally I don't think I'd ever be able to even rehome any of my animals unless something extreme happened
>>4918911That's the thing, I want to rehome them because I'm not really that attached, they're just not for me. I guess it feels like this is somehow me failing as a keeper, despite my providing the best care I can according to the documentation
>>4918916I mean it's likely as you said, you seeing it as your failure.If you think you can't help the animal have a healthy life then it is more responsible and a wise decision to give up homing it. But I know I'd have the struggle of my pride and do everything I could to keep any animal alive and happy.
>>4918923But I CAN provide it a healthy life, I'm currently doing so. I just don't want to, which somehow feels worse.
>>4918924Aw then that's just a unique form of autism.What animal did you get?Were you just expecting/wanting certain traits from that species or just a animal in general?
>>4918930Essentially, on top of a lot of 'perfect place at perfect time' I was sold a cat when I thought I was getting a dog. I did research, every source said "this is a dog", the seller described a dog, and I got a cat. Then everyone here said "yeah, that's a cat, what did you expect bro" well, I expected a dog! It's had months to adjust and there's been no improvement, because a cat isn't going to become a dog when it's more comfortable, but that still just makes it feel like I'm being immature, "be patient bro these things take time", half a year is a lot of time. I understand these are ancient animals that live life at a much slower pace but no amount of dragon girl porn will change the fact that I'm not a reptile, I'm a modern adhd human monkey and work on that timescale
>>4918932Aww that's fair, it does suck to have an animal who doesn't really want to be involved with you no matter how much you try.Depending on how you want to go about it you can just accept he is an asshole but the start of your collection. Just leaving him with his minimal maintenance as needed and ignoring him otherwise. Or like you said go ahead and attempt to exchange him or return him and get another animal.If you don't want to be a crazed animal person, then I don't think it's that bad to exchange the animal you have for one you'd want more and enjoy having around more. Heck might even just be a case of the animal you have being temperamental and a different one of that species might still be good for you.
>>4919157Thanks for delivering, based.
>>4919157Need to blur the frog slightly and sharpen up the outline slightly
>>4919211?
>>4919236Anon you know this still doesn't look rightThe frog looks too good, it's clearly an image put overtop of an image, and the white outline still doesn't blend
>day after live food day>both lizards are chillin out in the front
>>4918116what wisdom has he bequeathed to thee lately?
>>4919305That a man or frog will always have hunger as long as he lives.
I beat the grain mites, I won, and it was exceedingly easyDon't I have to keep replacing the cup for an entire month because of their eggs
>>4919260How about this?
>>4919469That's much better. The one remaining critique I would have, personally, is for the shadow to factor in somehow.
>>4919423>>4918116I need someone who can eat large/adult dubias, are pacs up to the task?
>>4919635ENTER
>>4919637That's not a pacman frog, you dumb nog>>4919635And how!
>>4919635An adult pacman can eat a whole mouse.So it for sure could
>>4919675no shit retard, pixies mog cuckman frogs HARD
Other herps that will eat adult dubias that aren't well known for being living garbage disposals that will try to eat anything that moves?
>>4919715I'd like Pacmen more if people called them southern horned frogs instead of a dumb video game name
>>4919800BTS, Beardies, or really any lizard with a head bigger than an adult dubia will have no problem with them.
>order silver springtails for new succulent terrarium>stuck in transit for over a week>they're hardy between 15°F and 105°F and can survive near-total dessicationI'm only mildly annoyed because they're now 8 days late, but on the other hand stuck in a dark, damp box is their mindless equivalent of heaven.On another note, what sort of herps eat p. Laevis isopods without dying of chitin overdose or getting zero useful nutrition?
>>4919810Would a particularly based Leo be able to get them down
>>4919423I've never handled a frog like this, does he feel spiky on top?
why are they like this
>>4919832A question best to simply not ask with frogs
>>4919832peak performance
Does anyone here have experience with dwarf boas, in particular tarahumaras? I am trying to get a solid feeding regiment down without overfeeding her?
How do people spray top-opening tanksMy bottle loses pressure after like 2 spritzes
>>4919513I'm not sure what you mean.
>>4920109get one of those sprays with a flexible hose nozzle
New snake friend.Named B.B. (Banana butter) cause I couldn't decide between the two
My Chinese cave gecko dropped its tail. I’ve had him for around 6 years and then just found him like this today. I’m devastated. What the fuck do I even do now? I have a spare 20 gal I could move him to with just wet paper towels and his hides to keep the wound sterile should I do that? It doesn’t look infected but I have no fucking clue what could have caused this. How can I make his life better?? I’ve been feeding him dusted crickets and waxworms and keep his tank around 60% humidity and 73 degrees.
>>4920351Where did you get these numbers, those are both the very low end of their requirements
What exactly makes crickets so prone to just dying en masse even if you try to take care of them?
>>4920118I mean there is a shadow cast along the hatchback which is not incorporated into the sticker.
>>4920483They are assholes is only thing I can think of.Been trying and failing to breed them no matter what food or enclosure I do for them they die off.Mealworms on the other hand are thriving and breeding with 0 effort
What could the problem be if mealworms can successfully moult into beetles, but their shells won't harden and they just die brown? I've never seen it happen in the cupboard but seen it multiple times in the bioactive.
>>4912284Frogs are definitely smarter than insects lmao
>>4920942they're about the same
>>4920942
>>4920892bros? any ideas? I came home to one of the most fucked up molts I've ever seen, only the head was formed/got outIs it temperature? Humidity? Nutrition? Luck?
>>4921073>that bite strength as he carries the other frog, flying awayFrogs are... strong!
>>4921384I think they kinda just both jumped at the same time still attached to each other
>>4921073The more I watch this the funnier it getsThey're both static pngs before they move
>>4912115So I'm worried I may have messed up socializing my snake and feel she is afraid to come out of her hide. She's a ball python, in a 40 gal enclosure with a consistent 25-30 degrees C with slight low humidity of 40-50%. I've been trying to bump it up with misting and water pour but there isn't much change.I use coconut chip mixed with the same husk and several logs, bush and vine to provide sufficient cover. I feed her once a month with a medium F/T rat and she has eaten without issues.She's an 8 year old ball python that was captive bred and given to a friend who gave her to me a few months ago. She has been taken to the vet twice now and has been doing really well health wise. She recently got stuck under a door but had no serious injury, just some scale damage.I've tried socializing her 1-2 times a week but she rarely comes out and I feel removing her hide might have done something.
>>4921507put the hide back in retardsnakes are just as much homebodies as tarantulas, their spot is their spot
>>4921507Why remove the hide
I will now proceed to make the snake more comfortable around me by removing her safe space
everything I know about insects told me the male dubia would be the most exploratory after being moved to the coach but he has completely disappeared and I've only ever seen the females
Anyone know the lifespan of a Savigny's agama (Trapelus Savignii) in captivity?
>>4922193that specific variant no, and I'm not going to jewgle it for you.however for general fence lizards (which that one basically is) we've had an outdoor pet for 7-10 years now, and they finally started breeding so we keep having a few juveniles show up here and there (but I think the fucking faggot ass neighbors cat keeps eating the juveniles because the numbers do not make sense).
>>4922234Okay cool, I would think something similar, thanks for your take!
>>4912115It's been months since I've posted here. I am the guy with the African Green Bush Snake. I wanted to give an update that he's doing well (though I am not sure his sex). Going to make a purchase on a taller enclosure for this guy. Looking into this : https://a.co/d/5IkLjqv Also, would I have to change much? Can I still use the same setup I have in my current enclosure?
>>4920340Beautiful! What kind of snake is that? >>4922455>>4912115Follow-up question: Once I get a taller enclosure for my snake, what type of snake should I put in the current enclosure? Obviously, not an arboreal one.
My yearling leachianus went over 200 grams today. It's somewhat worrisome, as I don't think I'm power-feeding him, given that he's fed roughly twice per week. His weight gain has been at a fairly consistent rate in the time I've had him. He just keeps getting bigger.From what I've read, the smaller insulars aren't supposed to go above ~250 grams, and he's a mix of nuu ana, nuu ami, and brosse lines.
>>4921058Definitely not
>>4922472elaborate
>>4922455>Can I still use the same setup I have in my current enclosure?lights and stuff may need a change since they're going to be farther away, but you wont be able to confirm that's the case until a few days of temp readings.
>>4922456>what typeGarter. For a small terrarium where you want a visible, active inhabitant, the answer is always a garter snake.
Do any anons know where I could find a normal/wild type eastern rat snake? It seems like most people selling at the moment are only selling the yellow variety
>>4922456He's a corn snake. He's been extremely friendly and eating well so far
>>4922574
>>4922576Corn snakes are based, but desu they're one of the herps which look the best in their "wild type" coloration.I stick with bug eaters but part of me has always wanted a corn snake set up that looks like inside a barn
Is it actually necessary to replace mealworm oatmeal once it's all turned to dust and frass? Wouldn't they have the vegetables to eat?
>>4912217frogue
>>4912546Yeah there's definitely something to the order of Nature or whatever. See how manmade lakes always stink like shit
>>4913765prairie kingsnake, many adults are only like 3'
>>4922589Pretty sure that's an albino or hypomelanistic. Wild type has a lot of brown but these are so common people think it's the default.
>>4923064I don't understand why there has to be 10 feet of plastic under any man made pondLike you're already filling the bottom with rocks, why do you need thick plastic liner and tons of eggcrates? Don't you want it to be deeper???
>>4923066they're like a hognose wwithout the hognose I love them
I love these little retards that come out in the shed at night, they're like Geckos but bigger
>>4923254sandfish?
>>4923256Yep, they call them Sand Swimmers here, probably because there's a type of fish we already call a Sandfish.
>>4923258swimmers, huh...
>>4923264>>4923258It's accurate
I got my Christmas present early. I'm so excited. I've wanted a leopard gecko for years.
What is the evolutionary advantage of non gecko lizards having such weird ass back feet where all of their toes are different lengths and they're splayed out in a full circle
>>4923275Wish I could see them do this, they only come at dusk to run around on the concrete eating bugs
how did scientists come up with a name as perfect as skink
>>4923045does he have a brain
>>4923275it was a semen joke sis
>>4922472>>4923045
Shinglebacks love Plums but not Apricots apparently
>>4923069because they're putting water in an area of land where water does not collect, so otherwise it'll just drain down into the water table.REALLY big man-made ponds are typically done with a fuckload of clay instead of plastic, and even then you have you risk leaks if there's not enough.
>>4923402I fucking love these absolute little tonka trucks
>>4923281congrats anon - enjoy your little critter for a long time
>>4923506Thank you so much! I'm really excited about it. I haven't had as a reptile pet since I was a kid. I'm trying to get in a good amount of handling time to get it used to me. It actually crawled into my hand this morning. It's not a crazy morph or anything, but I think it's really pretty.
>>4923069Are you tanking about those plastic block things they put above the liner but below the gravel bed in retaining ponds? Yeah, the goal there is to store water like you have a deep pond but to not drown people or create a space where someone might want to hang out and fish or whatever. It’s about making the water as useless and unattractive as possible.
New Boa is doing great. Very happy
>>4923621What a beautiful snek!
>>4923621What a disgusting shade of brown!
>>4923621I’m very happy that your new snake is doing well, anorexic boanon.
The mealworm bin has officially reached monster status and will devour whatever I put in within a day or 2Now I just need something to eat thrm
I get so depressed every time I accidentally take a picture of my gecko with flash on, I know it literally does not matter and people do it all the time but watching her eyes go to slits knowing she can't close them makes me feel like shit
>>4924545If she doesn't shy away from the phone when you have it in photo position she doesn't care
Do people buy mealworms every week like crickets? Would people buy them if I sold them? The ones at the pet store next to me are really expensive...
KEK
>>4925070Meanwhile in real life the snake lives so free in the cats head it thinks cucumbers are going to kill it
Took my leo out for a bath and... What is this? A scrape? The tail is also a fair bit less plump than I'm used to seeing as it's a regrow.
>>4925108Well crap. I found a cut too, so I better get her off loose substrate and prepare for another tail drop. Anyone know how safe the DHP is with paper towels?
>>4925113paper ignites at 451 Fahrenheit (hence the name of the book.) your lizard would be FLAME BROILED before the paper would go up.
