From the category archives:
While hermit crabs may only be a few dollars apiece, providing them with a proper home takes time and more money. These charming little creatures are not “throwaway” pets, and can live for upwards of twenty years with the right care! Learn more about their needs.
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Did you know that a snake’s shed skin is not a reliable indicator of the snake’s true length? Learn a little more about my snakes’ process of ecdysis, or skin shedding.
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By gut loading feeder crickets for 24 hours before you feed them to your Leo, you will be letting the crickets fill up on beneficial nutrition which will then be passed on to your leopard gecko when it eats those crickets.
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In part 2, read about some of the changes I made to my office “water garden terrarium,” including adding fish and new live plants.
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Leopard geckos are one of the few lizards that, with limitations, can be housed as a group. Learn about my lizard family of eight female leos and how they interact (or don’t).
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For three years, I’ve shared my cubicle with a small jungle. That’s not a reference to my coworkers, or the mess on my desk, but a paludarium.
The word paludarium stems from the Latin words “paludal” (relating to marshes) and “arium” (a place of, or connected to). That is, an environment that combines both water and [...]
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I mentioned at the end of my first post on Leos, albeit with a pretty tacky joke, that leopard geckos have an interesting trait that separates them (Eublepharis macularius) from most other species of geckos. And no, it’s not their inability to sell you car insurance.
Unlike many other species of geckos, leopard geckos lack “sticky [...]
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Hermit crabs are fascinating little animals. You may think they’re rather ungainly, what with lugging around a big shell and all, but that shell hides no less than ten legs! The first pair is the hermit crab’s claws, and the second and third pairs are also visible, meant for walking. The fourth and fifth pairs [...]
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My boyfriend Duane has ALWAYS wanted a lizard. After much research, he decided that an Argentine Black & White Tegu was the best match. Tegus are monitor lizards, the same family as Komado Dragons.
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Things I did between 2004 and 2006: Moved to Pennsylvania, got a graduate degree, and fell in love.
That wasn’t the plan from the start (well, certainly not the “falling in love” part). And no, I’m not recounting how I met my wife, Felicia (that’s another story), but instead, how I came to love a lizard named Sid.
Attending [...]
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My fiancé and I keep a small zoo. We recently purchased our first home, and the resolve to keep it at a steady population level has pretty quickly weakened. We’ve wanted a snake ever since his rescued Burmese Python passed away back when we were in college, although this time I insisted on choosing a [...]
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