Reptiles - July 2007

I really want a pet gardener snake (garter snake) because they are the only snakes you don't have to feed mice.
The only problem is that I live in Washington and since they are native here the pet stores won't sell them.
So can anyone tell of a store where I can order a gardener snake from?

2007-07-03 12:38:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-03 11:40:25 · 6 answers · asked by callymami010 1

....and I want to build a kind of lizard house so I can watch them out the window. What would attract them? Straw floors, grass or old cloths? What will make them feel safe and even lay their eggs there? What kinds of snacks can I leave to attract them? A little bowl of water or a miniature swimming pool? I don't want to catch them, just let them come and go and watch them in their house.
I've got lots of those dark brown ones with the bright red and yellow throats that puff out. I've got chameleons that are sweet. and others that are grey and white and squiggly and are marked like a rattlesnake. Don't like them as well.

Any suggestions? Don't want to spend $$$, just set it up.

2007-07-03 10:45:48 · 5 answers · asked by topink 6

my chameleon has been on the ground an awful lot. i'm wondering if my chameleon is pregnant. if so what to do.

2007-07-03 07:14:49 · 5 answers · asked by C. Justin V 1

After 3 years Myrtle finally figured out how to escape from her outdoor baby pool and its enclosure! She immediately high-tailed it across the lawn and under the pool yard fence and deposited herself in our in-ground swimming pool. I saw her escape from where I was sitting on the porch and immediately ran out and fished her out with the skimmer net so she only swam around for maybe 2 minutes. My question is how harmful is swimming pool water for red eared sliders? She seems fine, this was 2 days ago, and she's still active and eating and everything normal. I know the water quality in her tank is stablized and filtered so I worry that the pool water was too chlorinated. I haven't been able to find anything in my books or anywhere about turtles being exposed to pool water so I'm curious.

Thanks!

2007-07-03 04:56:59 · 6 answers · asked by Kristy 7

I just inherited a year-old water turtle and he looks like he could use a friend to swim with. anyone know what, if any, other aquatic or reptilian animals can live with a water turtle? as far as i've read he'll eat most other potential roommates unless it's another turtle. he's in a 20 gallon tank, water filled halfway with a rock dock for basking.

2007-07-03 02:50:04 · 6 answers · asked by Melissa M 2

What is the name of the turtles that were really popular in the 70's, and they were really small sometimes people would put them in shirt pockets.
But then they found out they were poisinous or something so they aren't as popular...
Anyone know the name of them? Thanks.

2007-07-02 17:31:58 · 7 answers · asked by Zondiaque 1

I live in Southern California.(if that fact heps). I keep him in my backyard in this staneless steel rabbit excercise pen. It's about 4 feet in length and 3 feet in width. I have a hide box with some straw and grass in it. Is this a good habitat. I also put a cover on top of the pen to keep out hungry owls. Can I continue to house him outside.

2007-07-02 17:10:28 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

but his shell looks like you rubbed on sanpaper and has some cracks on the bottom of his shell. if anyone has any advise please help!!!!!!!

2007-07-02 16:58:02 · 5 answers · asked by julie h 1

I'm looking more into RES and Western painted turtles by the way

2007-07-02 16:56:59 · 5 answers · asked by alanzof 1

it was noticed 3 days ago and looks like a umbilical cord attached to a round sac no bigger than a dime but is hangin out about 1.5-2 inches and pulsates with its heartbeat/bloodflow, i read on google of a chameleon having its anal lining and intestines come out, is this maybe what happened with the iguana? taking it to the vet tomorrow but am surprised what happened... any useful info is appreciated

2007-07-02 16:38:02 · 7 answers · asked by The Phantom 1

Its about 6 inches across, I have a 20 gallon tank for him, but feel bad and feel like he needs a bigger tank. Anything I could buy that is like plastic that he could live in. Any ideas

2007-07-02 16:22:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

My tarantula is molting and i didnt kno it at first so i removed the web it built and i turned it right side up. Does any 1 kno wat will happen?

2007-07-02 16:13:49 · 4 answers · asked by snooky9e 1

2007-07-02 15:59:48 · 7 answers · asked by aaron w 1

My daughter just got a baby ball python two weeks ago. It will not eat, and now its belly is soft and sunken in. When you touch the belly stuff comes out of him where he goes to the bathroom. Also he is holding his head on its side in the air and is tending to lean on his side rather then his belly. The day we bought him we found mites and took him back to be treated changed his bedding and then the next day retreated and changed his bedding. What should I do?

2007-07-02 14:57:08 · 8 answers · asked by lippylou1994 2

I have a large tortoise that eats the grass as main staple. The grass has a rust colored fungus growing all over it that needs to be treated safely.

My boyfriend bought commercial fungicide to treat it, and I feel it is harmful to my tortoise. We are in conflict about this.

Anyone have suggestions to treat the fungus without harming an animal that eats the grass?

Thanks

2007-07-02 14:00:07 · 3 answers · asked by LifeIsPassion 2

2007-07-02 13:05:16 · 15 answers · asked by Donna B 2

okay, so i fed my ball python today and he ate some of the aspen bedding along with his dinner, and i had to pull some of it out of his mouth. is this going to make him sick? or will he just poop it out? if there is any left inside his mouth, will he get it out himself, or should i help him out some more?

2007-07-02 12:57:07 · 6 answers · asked by jennifer 2

I don't want a list of different kinds. I want to know what one you would recommend or what one you go to. Or which on is your personal favorite. Make sense?

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2007-07-02 11:36:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

my baby ball python spends most of theday on the cold side of the cage. for the warm side the cage is about 83-85 degrees and there is a under tank heater on the warm side. the cold side is about 80 degrees. the cage i use is a 20x10 10 gallon. is it normal for the snake to spend the whole day on the cold side? or am i doing something wrong?

2007-07-02 09:23:02 · 6 answers · asked by greenfot1 1

My brother-in-law wants a Crimson Kingsnake. We live in Indiana...does anyone know if we can find one around here????

2007-07-02 09:18:47 · 1 answers · asked by dizzybee15 3

my red eared slider turtle is almost 3 years old and it has something on its left eye, it looks like mucus covering the whole eye ball but they eye is not closed and out of the 3 years weve had the turtle we have never seen anything like this .. we called a pet store and different people gave us different opinions .. one said it could be molting? .. one said it could be the early stages of blindness? .. the the other said it may not have enough calcium in the water? .. does anyone know what im talking about from own experiences or whatever? if you do please help me

2007-07-02 09:07:03 · 5 answers · asked by Mel 2

Why is he banging his shell on the glass? He only does it on the one corner of the tank, and there are scratch marks on the glass from his claws.

2007-07-02 06:55:18 · 9 answers · asked by KaLa 1

2007-07-01 15:17:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

do the leopard geckos really need one hot side and a cold side??

2007-07-01 14:25:49 · 6 answers · asked by rafael c 1

My brother bought me a little green turtle. I bought one of those little plastic things (with the palm tree) and it's too small for the turtle, and he wants to swim lol. I am going to by a 10 gallon tank. Heres what I plan to put in it:

A Placasumus (SP)
A Lilypad or two
Gravel at the bottom
Plants to put at the bottom
maybe some driftwood

is there anything else I should put in there or take out to make him happy?

Alison M.
Slidell

2007-07-01 14:16:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-01 13:46:27 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

Because there's a picture of a tortoise on my hay bag.

2007-07-01 10:46:55 · 9 answers · asked by josefina 1

they are about 1" big would they eat fruit ie. cantaloupe

2007-07-01 07:40:44 · 10 answers · asked by fantasy:. 1