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Leopard Gecko Care Sheet Basic setup using newspaper or paper towel as a bedding DO NOT USE SAND AS A BEDDING Sand will cause a gut impaction which is when your gecko eats the sand and cannot pass it out and it will kill your gecko Provide a hide box with moist moss inside, you […]

Taxonomy Explained Taxonomy is the classification of living organisms. Developed by Carl Linnaeus in 1735. This original form of taxonomy is called Linnaean taxonomy and was based on physical characteristics of plants and animals and does not take evolutionary relationships or genetics into account. I will explain Linnaean taxonomy below then we can move on […]

​This article will cover three different snake venom types, Cytotoxic, neurotoxic and hemotoxic. I have also added a category for other” which will describe venom types not covered by the three main types. Please note that many venomous snakes have a combination of venoms not just a single type. Example of this is the Papuan […]

​Brown House Snake  This is the local house snake we get in South Africa and is a common and wide spread species. As this snake is indigenous to South Africa permits are required to keep them in Gauteng. There are several locality and captive bred morphs of this snake. These include the KZN locality which […]

Below are Major Updates to the Invasive Species Legislation Corn Snakes have been removed from the invasive species list Boa Constrictors have been removed from the list for Gauteng and no longer require permits Green Iguanas have been removed from the list for Gauteng and no longer require permits Burmese Pythons: The scientific name of […]

​When most of us think of the habitat Boas come from we think of steaming hot tropical rain forests dripping with humidity but the habitat for Common Boas varies from this quite a bit. In their extreme northerly distribution in the Sonorun Desert Common Boas can experience temperatures as low as the upper teens and […]

​It may come to you as a shock but the Red Tailed Boa you have as a pet, see in a pet store, reptile expo or on an online ad is not actually a Red Tailed Boa to explain this we must look into the taxonomy of Boa Constrictor subspecies. There are 8 subspecies of […]

  1. Humidity African Fat Tailed Geckos require more humidity than their cousins the Leopard Geckos. A humidity level of 60-70% can be maintaned by providing a moist hide filled with Sphagnum moss and by spraying the cage down with water every two days or so. 2. Substrate I orginally kept my first African Fat […]