Category: Blog
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Shining a Light on your Reptiles – Utilisation of UVB Lighting
Shining a Light on your Reptiles – Utilisation of UVB Lighting The Reptile Keeping community has seen huge changes over the last 10 years. From the boom in naturalistic keeping, to a greater understanding and application of heating and lighting in the vivarium. We have managed to improve captive Reptile welfare 100-fold. Usually, we would…
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Moving Bioactivity Forward
A Recent History Over the last 4 years, we have seen a huge change in the Reptile keeping sector, with more and more members of the community moving toward naturalistic and bioactive enclosures. With this change, we have also seen a change in product availability. Shops have jumped onto the sales of Live Plants, with…
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Setting up a Bioactive Enclosure for your Reptile
Bioactive Setups In its basic form, a Bioactive setup is any type of enclosure that employs one or more species of Invertebrate to clean up waste products. Of course, there is much more to setting up a Bioactive enclosure than throwing a few bugs in to your normal, sterile type setup. This article hopes to…
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Enclosure Types
Enclosure setup is a very personal thing. It can depend on many factors, including who introduced you to keeping, what you see in the groups you attend, and what others have advised you to do. It often takes a lot of convincing to change someones opinion on the matter, and it needs to be done gently with…
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Save Our Sungazers Campaign, by Fraser Gilchrist
Today, we have a post by Fraser Gilchrist, who is in need of support for his Save Our Sungazers Campaign, which aims to research the Breeding of Smaug giganteus, to improve captive breeding and conservational efforts. So here is the write up from Fraser, please help by donating what you can. S.O.S (Save Our Sungazers)…
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Predatory Mites (Hypoaspis miles): The natural method of eradicating parasitic mites
Whilst they shouldn’t be, parasitic Mites are a problem most keepers will come across at some point or another in their lives. Whether they come in on infected substrates, a new addition, or the purchase of WC animals, they can be an enormous pain to get rid of. There are many products on the market…
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Thermostats – Their Importance and use.
Thermostats are important, but why? Well, Reptiles and Amphibians are Ectothermic! A fancy sounding statement, but probably one of the most important things you should know when keeping Herps.What this means is, unlike humans who generate body heat through various internal processes, Reptiles and Amphibians get their body heat from their surroundings, which in turn…