Everything you need to know about Skinks and Blue Tongued Skinks as pets and more. This book is a must have guide for anybody passionate about Blue Tongued Skinks. Skinks facts and information. Habitat, diet, health, care, common myths, diseases, illnesses, parasites and where to buy all included. The book is written in an easy to read and understandable style. In a straight forward, no nonsense fashion, Elliott Lang covers all aspects of keeping skinks as Pets. The book is full of sound advice and answers to your questions.

Everything you need to know about Axolotls and more. Guaranteed to answer all of your questions, this book is a must have for any owner of this fascinating pet. Axolotl care, tanks, habitat, diet, buying, life span, food, cost, breeding, regeneration, fun facts, and more all included. The Must Have Guide for all pet owners. This book provides detailed information about Axolotls including keeping them as pets, health concerns, breeding, and their importance in medical research. The book is written in an easy to read and understandable style. In a straight forward, no nonsense fashion, Lolly Brown covers all aspects of Axolotls. The book is full of sound advice and answers to your questions - including some you didn't know you had

Everything you need to know about the Sulcata tortoises and Leopard tortoises (and more). Guaranteed to answer all your questions, this book is a must have for anybody passionate about the Sulcata and Leopard tortoises. It covers care, health, diet, housing, food, and breeding. Plus how (and where) to select your tortoise with facts, information and relevant web resources. It is written in an easy to read and understandable style. Perfect for anyone looking to own these amazing creatures. There is also a free club that readers can join online so they can connect with other owners and share information. They can also receive book updates and other benefits. It's written in a straight forward no nonsense fashion from someone who has loved these tortoises for years. William S Clinton covers all aspects of keeping Sulcata Tortoises and Leopard Tortoises. The book is full of sound advice and answers to your questions.

Full color interior: Aquascaping is a fascinating hobby that has evolved over centuries. The idea of making an environment that supports life and is aesthetically appealing is an exciting quest for many people. Technology has evolved to support more species, in cleaner and longer lasting environments. This book will give you the facts to start your own aquarium and learn aquascaping freshwater and salt water tanks, from styles and design to set up with planting, lighting, substrate, coral, and ornaments, including live rock. You will also gain the knowledge of the nitrogen cycle and water testing for aquarium maintenance.

After reading this book you will be equipped with all the knowledge you need to care for your Ceratophrys horned frog. They are most commonly known as Pac Man frogs or pacman frogs, and they will eat pretty much anything that will fit in their mouth. This book will provide you with valuable information and tips regarding Pac Man frog care, feeding, habitat, health, breeding, food, diet, lifespan, pacman frogs care sheet, setup, and disease fact and more. It's all written in a clear and easy to understand manner. Guaranteed to answer your every question, this book is a must-buy for new and experienced frog owners alike. FOOTNOTE: No relation or affiliation to the Pac-Man video game character by Namco B ndai Games Inc., after which it was named by the general population--except that it has a similar wide mouth and it's a voracious eater of things in its path.

Black and White Interior Aquascaping is a fascinating hobby that has evolved over centuries. The idea of making an environment that supports life and is aesthetically appealing is an exciting quest for many people. Technology has evolved to support more species, in cleaner and longer lasting environments. This book will give you the facts to start your own aquarium and learn aquascaping freshwater and salt water tanks, from styles and design to set up with planting, lighting, substrates, coral, and ornaments, including live rock. You will also gain the knowledge ofthe nitrogen cycle and water testing for aquarium maintenance.

A summer adventure with a class pet. Learning made fun about Leopard Gecko's. A young boy's experience of his summer taking care of "Lily" the class pet.

Siuna Reid is a vet with over twenty years experience working with reptiles. She holds a certificate in zoo medicine (reptiles, small mammals and exotic birds). Reptiles have recently become ever more popular as a choice of pet for many people all around the world. Unfortunately, there are few books giving clear, simple care instructions regarding this exciting, and relatively new group of pets. Aimed primarily at the eight to fifteen year age group, this book concentrates on the general care and well being of the Gecko. Illustrated throughout with photographs and colourful drawings, demonstrating everything from housing to the essential food requirements, heat, light and even guides on when to visit the vet. Having seen many reptiles neglected due to a lack of information regarding their basic needs, Siuna has produced this book to help fill in some vital gaps of knowledge. The book is fun to read and easy to relate to, making it a must have for gecko owners young and old alike Look out for further books in this series "REPTILES ARE COOL"

The Ultimate Snake Owner Guide is authored by Kellie Ryan a professional snake catcher in Australia. This 240 page informative book includes all the information you need on how to care for your pet snake. Includes essential pet snake health resources, how to breed snakes and interesting Australian Snake facts.

Complete Care Guide for East African Sand Boas aka Kenyan sand boas. This book is a great resource for proper setup and care of your east African sand boa also known as Kenyan sand boas and Egyptian sand boas. The internet is full of confusing, competing and often deadly care advice for east African sand boas. Using our years of experience in both raising sand boas and successfully advising our customers on proper care of their sand boas, we have written a simple, easy to follow and extensive care guide good for the beginner to the expert. This book covers all the following major care areas of a sand boa including examples, tips and expert advice Physical Characteristics - differences between males and females Sexing - how to pop a snake Housing and Caging Substrate Water Humidity Lighting - how to save money Heating Feeding - with tips and tricks Proper Handling Click the buy now button to learn how to properly care for your sand boa. Still not convinced? Click the 'look inside' button above on the left to see the first couple pages of this must have care book.

Written by two widely respected experts on reptile and amphibian ownership and care, B.E.S.'s Reptile and Amphibian Keeper's Guides pack a great deal of information into a small format that also features instructive charts and color photos. Corn Snakes describes the brilliantly colored and harmless corn snake and its many subspecies that are native to North America and Europe. They tend to do well in captivity when their owners observe the basics of proper housing, feeding, and general care.

For 100 years, from the mid-19th Century, natural history was the premier British hobby. Over the last 50 years it has declined in popularity for a number of reasons, most notably that killing living creatures for a hobby is quite rightly no longer seen as ethical. With the technological advances of the 21st Century, however, everything has changed. With a digital camera one can have a butterfly collection for example, and with the advent of cheap air travel, places once only accessible by the Gerald Durrells of this world, can be visited by everybody. Suddenly, the amateur naturalist can come into his, or her, own, and there has never been a better time for people to get involved. Amateur naturalists across the world are carrying out valuable research, and participating in essential breeding programmes. If you are interested, this magazine is for you.

Initially coming out four times a year, the magazine will feature authoritative articles on keeping herps and inverts, the more unusual fish, and even exotic mammals and birds. However, although we intend to be the definitive magazine for those who believe in the responsible keeping of exotic pets, we want to do more than that.

Includes

COSTA RICAN ADVENTURE: Central American Wildlife by David Loft
FRUIT BEETLES WITH ATTITUDE: Captive Cetoniinae by Max Blake
TALES FROM THE BUSH: In the Footsteps of Wallace by Stephen Backshall
ADULT BABIES: Axolotls by Trevor Smith
NOT QUITE JAWS: Freshwater Sharks by David Marshall
FROM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS: The Jade Mantis by Graham Smith
SNAKEHEADS: Channa chat by Max Blake
A PRICKLY INDIAN: Bengal Spiny Stick Insect by Janice Holt
ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS: Yourfirst snake by Richard Freeman
FREE RANGE NEPHILA: Orb spinner spiders at home by Ray Gabriel
ZEBRA RODENTS: African striped mice by Oll Lewis
IN DEPTH: Insect diets and the role of toxins in food plants by Curtis Lakin

Plus: events, news, reviews, contacts, directory and much more

Poison Dart Frogs is a complete manual to the care and breeding of poison dart frogs. This guide provides step-by-step instructions on building a terrarium and culturing fruit flies. With tips from a breeder on how to propagate these jewels of the rain forest, this is the guide to get you started on the right path for keeping members of the family Dendrobatidae.

Learn the best way to care for your iguana. Discover how you can duplicate the iguana's habitat in your own home.Learn to feed and care for your iguana for his optimal health.This guide features habitat ideas, diet, training and cleaning tips.

Major F. Wall has given us a very concise and lucid description of India's poisonous snakes. It is a precise study that will be of interest to both the lay reader and the serious student. This book meets a long felt want, in affording a ready means of identifying a dead snake. Invaluable to medical men in India. So far as the venomous kinds are concerned a very little practice with major wall key will enable any one to discover the species with ease and certainty.

Every reptile and amphibian lover will enjoy this hilarious collection of warm-hearted revelations by herpers about their cold-blooded charges--snakes, lizards, frogs and turtles. If you. send out birth announcements for a hatching. cruise pet stores instead of the mall. feed the herps before the kids . then you'll laugh-out-loud at these off-the-cuff comments about what it's like to be a herper: the bugs and the worms . the bites and the mice . the escapes and the escapades!

Giant Green Iguanas have become a very popular pet in recent years. Unfortunately, too many people who own iguanas either don't have the right care information or are given the wrong information, and many of these iguanas do not make it to adulthood. The Iguana Den's Care and Keeping of Giant Green Iguanas provides tested, true, and up to date methods of iguana husbandry that have been developed from years of rescuing and rehabbing iguanas. This book is a must-have for both new and experienced iguana keepers. The book is based on the original Iguana Den website: www.iguanaden.com, and all proceeds from the sale benefit the shelter animals at Scales and Tails Rescue, Inc., a non-profit organization.

This book, first published in 1987 and here reprinted with a new foreword by the authors has become a classic in the field of herpetology. In ecological and evolutionary research snakes occupy a unique niche. Studies of their adaptations and life histories have broad applications for the most basic questions in biology. This book fills the need for an up-to-date text/reference in the growing field of snake ecology and evolutionary biology. Here, in one volume is an extensive review of the biology of these fascinating reptiles, including topics such as zoogeography, fossil history, systematics, foraging and reproduction. With contributions from many leading herpetologists, the work is divided into sections on Systematics and Morphology, Methods and Techniques and Life History and Ecology. Each section summarizes what is known about these major fields of snake biology. This book serves the needs of those actively involved in research as well as the amateur naturalist and the beginning student. Dr. Richard A. Seigel became interested in herpetology while an undergraduate at Rutgers University, where he received his B.A. in Zoology and Physiology in 1977. He continued his work with amphibians and reptiles while getting his M.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of Central Florida in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1984. He is currently Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Towson University in Maryland. Dr. Siegel's primary research interests are in the population ecology and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and has co-authored or edited four texts on the ecology and biology of snakes. From 1993-2000, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Herpetology, the largest international publication in its field. Joseph T. Collins has written more than 200 articles on reptiles, amphibians, and fishes throughout North America and twenty-three books, including: Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America Third Edition (with Roger Conant), Amphibians and Reptiles in Kansas Third Edition (with photographs by Suzanne L. Collins), Natural Kansas, An Illustrated Guide to Endangered or Threatened Species in Kansas, (with Suzanne L. Collins, Jerry Horak, Dan Mulhern, William H. Busby, Craig C. Freeman, and Gary Wallace), A Key to Amphibians and Reptiles of the Continental United States and Canada (with Robert Powell and Errol D. Hooper, Jr.). In 1978, Collins served as president of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, the leading international professional society in that field, as president of the Kansas Association of Biology Teachers (1980-1981) and as president of the Kansas Herpetological Society. He was a distinguished delegate to the First World Congress of Herpetology at Canterbury, England in 1989, and was made a Distinguished Life Member of the Kansas Herpetological Society in 1998. Susan S. Novak, a native of Chicago, has been a Lawrence, Kansas, resident since 1986. Novak has been an editor of scientific/technical, scholarly, and popular work for twenty years, working formerly as the editor at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. She joined the staff of the Kansas State Historical Society in 1993, where she has since served as the managing editor of Kansas Heritage magazine and the associate editor of Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, providing regular departments, main articles, photographs, book reviews, and layout and design work.

Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann's family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse in Sydney - an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 'pet' snakes in their backyard, John and his brother George took over the snake show from their parents in 1965. By the time John retired in 2010, he'd survived five venomous snake bites. Many of those familiar with John and his shows wouldn't know that he was also an Olympic athlete, a top state rugby league player who played alongside some of the legends of the game, a state champion boxer, an adventurer and a world authority on turtles. The Last Snake Man chronicles John's extraordinary life and times. From wrangling snakes to chasing turtles, from remote country towns to the impenetrable jungles of New Guinea, this is the story of an amazing Australian and his never-ending search for fascinating animals and adventure.