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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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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