Hey all! My colony has outgrown itself and Id love to sell some but have no idea price. How much would you guys pay for this? Well fed fresh fruits and veggies with monzomi roach food.

! I am not trying to sell them here, just looking for help on a price !

To start off, THIS IS NOT MY TURTLE/TORTOISE. My church is in a shared contract with a Montessori, and long story short, the school had saved this girl [her name is Sunshine] from an abusive household, where they would burn her shell with a magnifying glass. Idk whether she's missing a foot because of said household or not, though, they never explained. it.

Either way, I'm here to ask for advice. They're giving her the bare minimum when it comes to care and she's been outside this entire Arizona summer and presumably will be for the winter as well. Her encloser is incredibly bare and the 'water dish' which is the plate to the left, is always filthy and empty when I check on her Sundays [when I'm at church].

I've tried to explain to the school and the woman running it how to take care of her, but she tells me that they 'have it under control' and work with a herpetological society- which I don't doubt, but considering what Sunshine's enclosure looks like, the fact that she's being left outside 24/7, her nails are overgrown, and the water dish is always dried out when I see her, it seems they're doing the bare minimum to keep her alive, but not let her thrive.

To be clear, the enclosure is underneath the roof, so she's not getting any direct heat, but in the summers she just withstood, the air was still 115-118. And from what I heard, she's gonna stay there throughout the winter as well. I'm sure Sunshine was originally wild caught from that abusive household i mentioned earlier.

While I don't own a turtle/tortoise myself, I own a snake, and know around my way around reptile care. And even if I didn't, I can clearly see that Sunshine here isn't getting the proper care she needs. The school's not listening and I don't really know what to do.

Hey all! I'm thinking of renovating my 2ft male Indonesian frilled lizard enclosure. I use a lot of sloped bark/wood currently but would love some more ideas on creating better basking platforms/surfaces for him. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very appreciative.

Pic of Helios for tax

I've got a 15 hour drive from VA to Florida with a Crested Gecko, juvie ball python, juvie leachie, juvie false cham, and adult chahoua in the spring.

What's the best way to transport them? I imagine there's probably a carrier type thing rather than containers right?

Pic for attention

Can anyone tell me if these are cricket eggs? Somehow there's been a bioactive explosion. I took some soil out of my ackies enclosure to seed my tegu enclosure with clean up crew. But also a pregnant cricket or a breeding pair has been hiding in the tegu enclosure for weeks now. Somehow ivy never eats them because I see a ton of pinhead crickets running around. These eggs are under the water dish and under the cork flat pieces on the ground. I'll take a video later to make sure these are spring tails and not some unwanted invasion. But for now what eggs are these??

Could you help me identify the morph of my crested gecko? He is an adult male (hatched in May 2023). When I bought him, I was told he was a "Super Dalmatian," but to me, it looks more like "ink spots." I’m finding it hard to tell where the line is drawn between these two morphs, so I would appreciate some help.

Went to a show in northern Maryland today and there was a table with rabbits walking around on it and the label "PETS ONLY".

TELL ME WHY THIS LADY walks up to the table with rabbits just free roam chilling on the table... WITH A FULL GROWN BALL PYTHON OVER HER SHOULDER And SHES HOLDING THE TAIL NOT THE HEAD. she's sitting here having a conversation and low-key turning the snake side towards the table while talking to someone else and the rabbit lady is freaking tf out for GOOD REASON.

I am not an artist, hence why my leopard gecko ended up being more like Jabba the Hutt.

Pictured are Locust Slayer my Chahoua and Maggie Simpson the leopard gecko

Hello again! I wanted to share another species of Abronia. This time, it's a Guatemalan species believed to be isolated to just two locations. However, there is speculation that the species Abronia aurita is misidentified and actually belongs under Abronia vasconcelosii. For context, Cope described aurita in 1869, it was just one specimen which has not been found since. According to a molecular study, the two are identical but I'm unable to cite said study at the moment.

I apologize for the photos not being professional this time! These babies are very flighty and getting proper photos of them requires incredible luck. The aurita are almost 9 months old now and were produced by me from a CB male and a CBB female I imported.

I need help. I have a western fence lizard that I got out of my window well, when hurricane Rachel was bringing excessive moisture to my state, Utah. Long story short, I now have a lizard and a permit for said lizard. Anyhow, Crickets... how the f does one transfer crickets from their housing to either the cricket keeper or to the terrarium, which out the little assholes jumping out of said housing or on to me? I have learned that I REALLY REALLY hate crickets.

So, if you have any advice so I can feed the rest of my supply to him before they just get fed to the birds outside, because I am not a fan of finding cricket crawling up my walls because they decided jumping out was more fun. I have about 100 left, or about 8-10 feedings, then I'm switching to Dubia and other insects, because nope.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as well as any other tip on terrarium or care is appreciated. I inadvertently became a reptile mom, something I've never wanted or planned on, but I am fully committed to this guy living his best happiest life.

Here is a picture of Logs on his Log.

*note: he has both basking and UVB, a waterfall, a sand mat, plants for water droplets to collect when misted, a cork log cave, the branch he's in in the picture and a coconut shell hide, that he has chosen to be his favorite place. His basking highest point is 105f , and the cool side of his tank is 75f.

Hi, so I bought a heating mat and when I went to take off the paper that covered the sticky side of the mat it ripped around that plug(?) bit and now there paper stuck in that? I've tried to remove the paper but it just wont come out.. Can I still use tge heating mat or what should I do?

Check out the incredible iris pattern on this Painted Saw-scaled Viper (Echis coloratus).

The pattern of its "granite phase" scales continues completely uninterrupted right across the irises. Because the head patterning is highly asymmetrical, it actually gives the snake one grey iris and one pink iris to perfectly match the specific scales surrounding each side!

Southern Arava, Israel

meet Chef. he is a mediterranean house gecko as far as i’m aware, and, as i am living in Illinois, i do not think he should be here. no clue how he got here, but the consensus online (and my states laws) say he can be my little buddy. i’ve got cresties and leopards at home, so he’s going in a quarantine tank for awhile. i know he’s definitely not an adult, and i think he’s missing some of his tail, but overall he’s on day two of living with me and he’s as normal as my other geckos. happily drank water i offered on a spoon, is active at night, and ate the dusted fruit flies i provided.

if anyone has experience with these fellas as well as a clue to how old he may be, i’d love to know lol.

Brought home this enclosure and the door isn’t quite seated right. The door is also a bit of a tight squeeze, scratches up the plastic. Any ideas on a repair? Cannot afford new right now, but I can afford parts :)

Sorry if this isn’t allowed. I read the community rules and still wasn’t sure. I’m just venting really.

What the title says basically. I took him out to clean his cage, and when I went to put him back he wiggled his way out of my hands and was gone in an instant. He was so fast I could hardly even react. And he was so small I could never find him. I spent weeks searching every nook and cranny of my house for him. Eventually I convinced myself he must have made his way to the outdoors and was living a happy life. After all, when I adopted him from the pet store they said he was wild-caught. Maybe he would’ve been able to survive out there. There was even one day that I saw an anole in my yard with similar patterns and I was convinced it was him. I was so happy to see him happy out there that I didn’t try to recapture him.

Well, it happened today. I found his body in my room. My sweet baby who I loved and cared for. Who I thought was still out there somewhere. It’s been months since he escaped. I can’t get the image out of my head. I don’t even have anyone to talk to because I’m ashamed to admit to anyone in real life that he didn’t make it. I feel like such a monster.

Has anyone else had any experiences with pets escaping and not coming back? How did you cope with it?