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DISCLAIMER: NOTHING ON THIS PAGE IS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE. PLEASE CONSULT AN EXOTIC ANIMAL VETERINARIAN IF YOUR PET IS SICK.

Nidovirus has been one of the most challenging and painful things we’ve had to deal with as reptile keepers. The pain has come from many places—sick a...

Meet Falafel! Also known as The Waffle, That Handsome Lizard, and sometimes just, “Hey You!” or “Hey! Stop that!”. Falafel is a quince monitor, also known as the yellow tree monitor. We purchased him from a local pet shop in February of 2017, where we estimated he was about three to four months ol...

Jessie was our second snake. With only a western hognose under our belt, we hardly thought ourselves prepared for a green tree python. However, Jessie came to our local pet store as a surrender, we were told, from a breeder who kept “him” as a pet. He was, we were told, the gentlest, most mild gre...

We purchased Pandora in November of 2017 from a local pet store. The owner had gotten a bulk shipment of green tree pythons from overseas that were “farm bred”. He’d set aside a few to keep for himself, and allowed us to browse the others to see if there was one we wanted.

There was one green tree...

January 2020 updates, with new PDF report feature!

SnekLog is actually a pretty elaborate reptile tracking app. One might wonder why all that is necessary. After all, you feed your dog or cat every day, right? And clean up after it poops as normal? Why track that?

Well, because snakes have a slower metabolism, they only eat about once a week. And,...

For the last few years, we have worked to curate our backyard with plants that are safe and edible for our Redfoot tortoise, Charr. Growing plants that can withstand Florida heat (in addition to Florida downpours) and thrive in silty, sandy soil has been very challenging. Growing plants that can sur...

We acquired Truffles, our banana spider pastel (Bumblebee banana) ball python, from a local pet store in April of 2017. It was a double purchase—one of several we made that year in our excitement to jump headfirst into the world of reptiles. I would jump at any opportunity to get a ball python—at th...

Mac was an Aru green tree python we owned from 2017 until his passing in 2021. He was awesome, so we recorded a little about him here!

We found Mac at the Daytona Breeder’s Expo in Florida in August of 2017. Getting him home was an adventure, because we were prototyping our arboreal tubs for trans...

Lucy was a jungle carpet python we obtained from a local pet store in June of 2017. She was at least 6 years old when we met her, and we were told that, up until that point, she had been kept in a drawer.

We were intimidated by the idea of bringing such a large snake home—at the time, she was muc...

People come up and ask me, “Why reptiles?” My favorite quick answer to give is, “They’re quiet, and they eat and poop once a week!” And, sometimes I’ll tell them about how I was allergic to literally everything else and wanted to take a chance at something new.

But while there’s an easy answer, I...

DISCLAIMER: We are NOT renowned experts in assist-feeding. We did not have an expert come over and show us how it was done. We spoke with many veterans in assist feeding and watched multiple videos on YouTube for guidance. However, eventually it became necessary to try, and we just had to do the bes...

One of the most frustrating things in providing a setup for Falafel was finding a balance between heat and humidity. (I thought we had escaped this in not getting a chameleon, where you need high humidity and open air. Not so!) His basking area needed to be about 115F, and his humidity needed to be...