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Neat! I'd like a crocodile skink, what's their care like? UVB/temp requirements? I really should just buy geckos at the next expo but I saw a few CB adults of the Red-Eye and I liked what I saw and was told.
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Captain Foxy posted:Neat! I'd like a crocodile skink, what's their care like? UVB/temp requirements? I have her set up according to this site: http://www.tribolonotus.com/MAINPAGE.htm She's a noisy thing. Squeaks and groans whenever you move her or get too close.
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Big Centipede posted:I have her set up according to this site: That's awesome, I've been googling 'crocodile newt care' with little to no consistent results. Am I right in seeing that a 20-30g is all they're recommending for housing? And what strength UVB are you using? It's good to see a goon with one; I've been considering them for a while but couldn't find info online or anything not WC, but at this last expo there were a decent amount and some CB. I may have to pull the trigger and get one if I see them again. The noises sound adorable!
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Captain Foxy posted:That's awesome, I've been googling 'crocodile newt care' with little to no consistent results. Am I right in seeing that a 20-30g is all they're recommending for housing? And what strength UVB are you using? Crocodile newt?
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| # ? Apr 16, 2012 06:55 |
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 Harley and Joker are home!And Harley spent twenty minutes wriggling all over me. We had to pry her off.
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Thought I would post in here. I'm from Calgary Alberta. The wife and I have been keeping reptiles for a few years now. I started with a normal Boa the wife started with a normal Ball and it went from there. off the top of my head we are keeping the following species Ball Pythons(50+) Corn snakes(3) KSB Jungle Carpet pythons(1.1) Mandarin Rat snakes(1.1) Olive pythons(1.1) Pac man frogs(2) Boas(4) Green Basilisk Brown Basilisk Armadillo lizards Leopard Geckos(20+) Bearded Dragons(5) Crested Geckos(20+) Gargoyle Geckos(3) Leachianus Gehrya vorax(2) Gecko Gecko Cave Dwelling Rat snakes(1.1) Rhino Rat snakes(1.1) Albino Nelsons milk snake We also breed our own feeders mostly ASF's as well as hamsters and Rabbits Now for some pictures Me holding our Female Olive at an educational event  Some of our Balls at the same event   Some Geckos and guns   Cave Dwelling Rat snake  Mandarin Rat snakea 
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GCOAP posted:Me holding our Female Olive at an educational event I really love Olive Pythons. Such a beautiful animal.
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| # ? Apr 16, 2012 15:40 |
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Big Centipede posted:Crocodile newt? SKINK. Too tired, staring at newt tank while posting is not a good idea.
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| # ? Apr 16, 2012 17:09 |
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:
Yay! So now you know you have to post pictures, right? I mean, what if they've changed? We deserve to see. 
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| # ? Apr 16, 2012 17:38 |
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Captain Foxy posted:SKINK. Too tired, staring at newt tank while posting is not a good idea. To be fair, crocodile newts are pretty sweet, too. And I'd never feel that staring at newts is a bad idea.
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OneTwentySix posted:To be fair, crocodile newts are pretty sweet, too. And I'd never feel that staring at newts is a bad idea. Don't tempt me, you literal and figurative siren. Also, these granulosa are laying like crazy but they keep eating them! We have egg-laying strips in there, but how do we preserve the eggs? Remove in a separate enclosure or can we put them straight into the wild? Or would you like them? 
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If they're eating them, removing them is the best bet. Usually newts don't eat their own eggs that much, but there's always exceptions. I would definitely be interested in granulosa eggs! Just got back from a herping trip yesterday, I need to get some pictures downloaded and edited, but I picked up a couple new projects that I'm a bit excited about.
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| # ? Apr 16, 2012 18:16 |
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Captain Foxy posted:Don't tempt me, you literal and figurative siren. I would totally pay you if you'd like to send me some! (My husband will kill me if he sees this post, but granulosa is a species I've been wanting to get my hands on for years.) If you have some left after sending them to OneTwentySix, that is.
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| # ? Apr 16, 2012 18:51 |
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Send some to slowfoot, first, if you send any my way! It'd be nice to get some more people working with them again!
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| # ? Apr 16, 2012 19:56 |
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GCOAP posted:Thought I would post in here. I'm from Calgary Alberta. The wife and I have been keeping reptiles for a few years now. I started with a normal Boa the wife started with a normal Ball and it went from there. off the top of my head we are keeping the following species Ah! Someone else with cave dwellers! Have you bred yours yet? I got 3.3 babies last season. 
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Big Centipede posted:Ah! Someone else with cave dwellers! Have you bred yours yet? I got 3.3 babies last season.  Just little Babies right now(that won't sit still for a nice photo) still have another few years of growing before I can breed them.
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| # ? Apr 16, 2012 20:13 |
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GCOAP posted:
Nice. My male is a nice yellow like yours. Their babies turned out yellow like the father.
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| # ? Apr 16, 2012 20:14 |
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Insane week reptile-wise, and it will continue this weekend with the White plains show on Sunday! Sunday night I discovered my first fertile leachie eggs, from my high-pink pair. Monday morning my greybanded kingsnake began to lay eggs- my first snake eggs. She JUST finished laying the rest of them this morning. I'm not sure how many she had exactly right now, as she laid them over the course of the week and I haven't tallied how many normal eggs, boob eggs, and slugs. Somewhere around 8-9 normal, 2 boobs, and three slugs. Several of the normal looking ones were lost though...one she ate (not kidding), one I was dumb with and yeah...and another I actually saw BREAK as she was pushing it out. I hope it was only this crazy because she is a first time snake mom.
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As suggested, I put panty hose over my terrarium filter to keep sand from getting into it - This works beautifully, but of course, sand is building up on the pantyhose, which occasionally leads to restricted water flow - Will this damage the pump any? To my mind, the motor on the pump will always be spinning at the same rate regardless of how much water it's bringing through (rather than working harder to compensate), and since it is submerged, burn-out isn't an issue. I can't see how it would get damaged, but I'd like to hear other opinions
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So my boyfriend has these two snakes, he was told they are Indian pythons (eek) but I don't know about that. An identification would be lovely. Sorry for the camera phone pic.
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Olive Bar posted:So my boyfriend has these two snakes, he was told they are Indian pythons (eek) but I don't know about that. An identification would be lovely. Sorry for the camera phone pic. I'm certainly not an expert but those are some morph of a red-tailed boa (BCC or BCI). http://www.classreptilia.com/boa_morphs.htm has some of the more common RTB morphs but its definitely not an Indian Python. They are also over weight. And they shouldn't be housed in the same enclosure unless he's actively trying to breed them in that picture. Snakes don't do 'groups'. Sir Nigel fucked around with this message at Apr 22, 2012 around 14:40 |
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Olive Bar posted:So my boyfriend has these two snakes, he was told they are Indian pythons (eek) but I don't know about that. An identification would be lovely. Sorry for the camera phone pic.  Indian whaaa? Yeah those are 'salmon' or hypomelanaistic BCCs, Columbian Boa Constrictor. I don't even know snakes all that well but the patterning is obvious. They grow 6-8ft and I second that they should be separated if they're not breeding or they'll stress each other out. Sounds like your boyfriend needs a Snake 101 class, because those are some of the most common animals in the hobby and if he can't identify them....
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Oh I sooooo know. I'm working on him, trust me. The female is a fatty because she just ate yesterday. But I know all about housing snakes and I'm doing my best to get him to change it. At least he ditched the heat lamp.
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DP because my phone sucks and won't let me edit. Yeah, he tends to not research things all the way through. Before I came along he had them BOTH in a 20 gallon long. Which obviously isn't even big enough for the male. It was heartbreaking. I told him they were red tails, but he insisted they weren't. So win for identifying snakes! Now to get him to separate them, stop feeding live, and get bigger tanks for both. Ugh. He also keeps insisting he needs to cover the ENTIRE tank bottom in heating pads. Some people really, really shouldn't own animals. His thought is since I don't currently have snakes, I don't know how to care for them. I have more than enough past experience to know at least the basics.
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My new baby leopard gecko is insane. Every time I change the water or humid hide or check the temps, it makes these awful possessed-by-demons noises and nips at my hand. It even comes out of its hide to do these things. The nipping doesn't hurt at all, so it's more hilarious than anything. It's still young, so I'm assuming it will calm down with age, but is this typical for young leos? This little guy is so incredibly feisty.
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I've never personally had such a fiesty little gecko, but you have to admit, they're battle cry is hilarious. Mine has only ever done it once but I cracked up when I heard it. Hopefully it will settle down with age.
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I just realized that my female hognose Alice is twice the size of my male, Cheshire. Probably helps that she gorges as often as I feed her and he's loving picky about everything. And yea, I sold our Brazilian Rainbow Boas to a guy who breeds carpet pythons, and he was rather excited to get these for pretty cheap. In fact he was amazed at how calm and handable they were when I had warned him we didn't handle them much. I don't know if he was expecting them to nail our hands when he inspected them, but the snakes were pretty chill (and no I didn't cool them ahead of time) and he's posted me with updates. Hopefully he'll have good luck breeding them.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I just realized that my female hognose Alice is twice the size of my male, Cheshire. Probably helps that she gorges as often as I feed her and he's loving picky about everything. Hogs are drama nuts. When not hooding, hissing, dying, getting better, they drive their keepers utterly mad. I think females get larger than males. My lone male has finally been feeding steadily for the past 18 months. But he was on-again, off-again for the first year or two. I need to get a female for him, maybe at the Tucson show this year. Pipping hogs would be among the cuter sights on the planet. It's been a good spring so far in the desert. Purple tongues are in bloom:  Meeting a gila in the wild is always a thrill.   
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Bobbaganoosh that is amazing, I'm so jealous...I wish I had awesome wild reptiles where I lived. The white plains show was a little disappointing yesterday. I didn't see anything that really WOW'ed me. The good thing about that is I ended up dumping all my money on a new and huge and amazing hatchling/juvvie rack. I'm expecting some AFT babies and Greybanded kingsnake snabies in the next coming months (My first snake eggs!  )And, since I didn't come home with any new animals (except one I paid for in January that I've been planning to pick up for months) I put a deposit down on an amazing garg from some insanely colored lines.  Will be getting it in a few weeks, pictures WILL follow!Edit: I haven't shared any baby garg pictures from the last couple weeks!    
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Ohmygawd Greycious, that garg with the yellow "eyeliner" is just.... Eeeee.
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| # ? Apr 23, 2012 16:46 |
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Greycious posted: That little gecko is so pretty. I don't know garg morph names. What is it?
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hypnotoad posted:Ohmygawd Greycious, that garg with the yellow "eyeliner" is just.... Eeeee.  Another picture of one of those two I have right now from that mom That mom's babies always have her bright yellow eyeliner, it's cute Fluffy Bunnies posted:
All those babies are stripes. That dark one is from eyeliner-mom I think, she produces somewhat funky 'broken' stripes, they don't have a perfect thick stripe but instead have several thin stripes. The one in the second picture is from my high contrast b/w pair, it has a much more heavy and defined stripe.. Gargoyles don't have very cut-in-stone morphs. There are three basic patterns, Retic/Reticulated  Banded:  Striped:  Within those three basics, individuals can vary a lot. You'll especially find Retics that have faint bands, or stripes that seem to have some reticulated areas as well. None of these have colors, there are "Base" colors, that show up when the animal fires up, and then there are other colors where the animal always has that coloration, and it is usually in stripes along the back stripe, or in big Blotches of color. Red "Base" striped, This is her fired up, when fired down she looks like a dull pink.  Red/Orange stripe, color shows up brightly even when fired down  Orange blotch 
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 Retics look like they could disappear in a viv.I said I'd get some pictures of Harley and Joker's new place. I ended up with one decent picture and the snakes telling me to gently caress off and hiding under their water bowls. Oh well:  And here's the cresties.  Richie is having a few shedding issues. Saunas are helping but he (it) just seems to hate dealing with his tail/feet. They're both eating like mad (CGD/dusted crickets) but.. feh. We'll get him back on track. I got all that off with a q-tip after he finished his sauna, too, so it's not just sitting on him. Still, less shedding talk, more geckos:Cal:    Well hi there Richie:    Vroom!
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I got back from a herping trip in Florida a week ago, and brought back a few animals to work on breeding. I posted photos in the Critterquest thread, so I won't repost them all here, but I've got a few interesting things to share. On my way back, I stopped at a site and picked up some of these larvae. They have me completely stumped, and a friend who's huge into Ambystomids is stumped, too. There's six Ambystomids in South Carolina; maculatum, opacum, talpoideum, tigrinum, mabeei, and cingulatum, and they don't seem to fit any of them very well. My first thought was tigrinum (tiger salamander), given their large size and the size of their gills. I ran them through a key when I was at the site, and they came out as tigers. But when I got home, my friend said they didn't really look like tigers, but then he was a bit confused, since they didn't look like year old talpoideum, either.   After a lot of photographs from various angles, they still keyed out as tigers, and I got some comparison shots with some two year old talpoideum from my backyard. Ironically, they were the exact same length, but there were quite a few differences; belly pattern, distance between eyes, head shape, gill size, etc. So, we concluded they were tigers, though they were kind of odd tigers.   The talp is on the left.  Well, now they're starting to morph, so what the hell? Tigers morph at around six inches or so, not three and a half. So now we're REALLY stumped. They can't be maculatum; macs morph at three inches, and seem to morph smaller in SC, and they're late breeders; they're around an inch right now, not three and a half. They're not mabeei or cingulatum; both have very pretty stripes and such, don't overwinter, and cings are federally endangered. They can't be tigers; they're morphing too small, and they look nothing like my morphing talpoideum; talps turn grey with silver specks; these are getting yellow specks. The only possible animal they could be is opacum (marbled salamanders); opacum are around three inches right now since they overwinter, and opacum do have yellow specks at first. But opacum don't have those long gills, don't tend to get over three inches, and I don't know if they'd breed in the habitat I found them in; it looked like a pool that holds water most of the year, and it was a cypress swamp. A site for a species of siren, actually. They also don't key out as opacum; opacum key out alongside talpoideum with lightly to heavily pigmented chin/throats. Plus, why didn't my friend or I say opacum when first say them? I'm not great at larvae ID, but my friend is; he's getting his doctorate in herpetology, and Ambystomids are his favorite group. And they also don't look like morphing opacum, and I HAVE morphing opacum in my back yard!  Opacum that just morphed in the last four days; maybe a week ahead of these animals in coloration; I can't see them developing into opacum. So it's definitely really confusing. They're probably opacum or talps, but if they're talps, there should have been smaller talp larvae from this year, or even neotenic adults. So it's going to be REALLY interesting to see what they end up being, because these are some really weird larvae.  Here's an A. mabeei (Mabee's salamander) larva I found at the same place. Mabeei, first year talpoideum, cingulatum, and maculatum larvae would all be roughly that size since those are spring breeders (tigers are spring breeders too, but grow very quickly). I've never seen a mabeei. I wish I would have found more, because people have bred mabeei in captivity, but I'll just have to settle on seeing a single mabeei metamorph in a few months. I also went out for newt eggs before I went on my trip. For anyone (especially north of SC) that wants to look for newt eggs (Eastern newts, or also Taricha granulosa, California newts), find a clump of plants like this in a pond they breed in.  Then, look around for bent leaves.  They'll have these little eggs in them:  I collected a bunch, but like an idiot, I put them in the pool I was going to use for newts, and now I have no idea what happened with them. The larvae hatch out at around a quarter inch, and with all the Daphnia and leaves and debris in the pool, it's unlikely that I'll see any for a long time, provided they did hatch successfully. Hopefully they're fine, though; I did want to raise up some efts. Speaking of efts, I found these when I went herping with a friend before my trip.     It had been raining, and we found 14 or 15 on our walk back to the car once we'd finished herping. That was really neat; I'd never seen so many efts before in one place (though I'd seen over 400 adults when my Ambystoma friend from above and I dipnetted a tiny pond in Arkansas). I was also lucky enough to get some Taricha torosa (California newt) eggs this year. One mass went bad before anything hatched, which was really disappointing, but I did get eight good larvae. I was hoping to be able to sell a few to recoup my costs, but I'll have to hold these back to breed in a few years. They're doing pretty well, and I'm excited for when they finally morph.  Edit: Missed a TIMG, sorry about the table breakage. OneTwentySix fucked around with this message at Apr 25, 2012 around 05:29 |
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I'm loving all the beautiful pictures, guys. I'm really jealous of the gilas, Bobbaganoosh. OneTwentySix, great finds! I'm hating myself for not going herping any really yet this season. I was in the mountains of NC this past weekend and actively looked for salamanders around the streams, but all I found were some woodchucks and 3 garter snakes.
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So here's a dumb question... The lightbulb in my clamp lamp burned out tonight and being that it was like 7 o'clock all the pet stores were closing. It was a Zilla I believe, 50 watt 120 volt. Is throwing a regular old 60 watt GE incandescent bulb in there fine or is this going to screw up my leopard gecko? Do I need to hit up the pet store tomorrow morning?
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Big Centipede posted:I'm loving all the beautiful pictures, guys. I'm really jealous of the gilas, Bobbaganoosh. Huh, that's really weird. Even in crappy habitat, I usually turn up something; pulling over at a seep alongside the road or stopping at a random stream. I went on a group outing, and though we only had two or so hours of herping, I could turn something up every few minutes when I was trying. Bad luck, maybe? Weird about the garter snakes, though; I've only seen one or two of them since I've moved to SC four years ago, despite seeing lots of other snakes. Though I guess I could just be in a crappy area for them. In any event, if you or anyone from the thread is ever near Asheville, post in the thread or send me a PM; I'm kinda feeling like going looking for hellbenders some time this year, though I need to look up when they're breeding so I'm not messing things up at the wrong time of year.
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Interesting riddle you have going, OneTwentySix. Keep us posted. I've learned more about amphibians from you in this thread than decades of nosing through field guides. The only marbled sallies I found was a pair under a rotting log, while herping with the Va. Herp Society in Caroline Co., Va. Just awesome animals. Hope you get to see a gila in the wild someday BigCentipede and Greycious. They're as awesome as they come across in photos and more. BigCentipede, I'm trying to ignore your crocodile skink post... those things are just too awesome, as are all these posts on Gargoyle Geckos. The temptation here isn't helping. I have a pair of juvenile Tarahumara Boas arriving Thursday, pics coming then. These are true boa constrictors whose range comes within 50 miles of the US border. Tarahumaras are the smallest locality. Females top out at 4 feet, males at 3. The opportunity to work with these legendary dwarf boas is a thrill.
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OneTwentySix posted:Huh, that's really weird. Even in crappy habitat, I usually turn up something; pulling over at a seep alongside the road or stopping at a random stream. I went on a group outing, and though we only had two or so hours of herping, I could turn something up every few minutes when I was trying. Bad luck, maybe? I was actually right by Asheville at Marshal, but I was there for a wedding and didn't have much playtime.
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Bobbaganoosh posted:Interesting riddle you have going, OneTwentySix. Keep us posted. I've learned more about amphibians from you in this thread than decades of nosing through field guides. Someday I'll make it out there damnit. Nice pick ups with the dwarfs. I like boas, but I decided stick with rosys and possibly some sand boas from now on. Be sure to post pics.
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