Keeping Exotic Pets

photo credit: Fiorenza Thompson I have had a few emails here about which are the “best exotic pets” but that is really a very difficult questions to answer as we are all different and so what suits one person may not suit another. For example there are a small range of exotic pets which are [...]

photo credit: Roomic Cube If your exotic pets require livefood in the form of crickets, locusts and the like then one problem you may have encountered is simply that tubs of livefood die shortly after purchase. Visiting some reptile shops the rows of tubs for sale consist mainly of dead insects and so keeping your [...]

  photo credit: Arcadiareptiles Whether we’re talking about milksnakes, kingsnakes, rat snakes or the classic corn snake, luckily the care of hatchling colubrids is very similar indeed. Baby snakes can feel vulnerable and the more stressed they are the more likely they are to get ill and/or go off their their food so this is [...]

Kept at a reasonable 20-25′C leaf insects seem to take around 4-6 months to reach maturity. As the males ate smaller at maturity than the females these tend to reach maturity sooner with the females following along soon afterwards. This may serve as a way to reduce the risk of inbreeding in the wild as [...]

photo credit: noshaPreying mantis are carnivorous insects which consequently require live insects of a suitable size to feed upon. Unlike some other invertebrates kept in captivity like tarantulas, most mantids have a very healthy appetite and will feed in a daily basis. Mantids will typically eat insects up to around half their body length though [...]

photo credit: senkiwboo Whilst there are some rather expensive and specialist species available, the average tarantula is reasonably easy to care for once you understand a few basic concepts. Selecting A Species With around 800 species of tarantulas currently recognised there is a huge variety of species available in the pet trade. Luckily the average [...]