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greg - 2009-08-04
Good info. Dont totally agree with incubation temperatures, I have eggs and the high temp 79- low of 69. neonates born at high incubation temps, they say, tend to be smaller and weaker.

April Ferrell - 2012-02-27
I have found a Red-Eared Slider Turtle and I believe she is a female. She is about the size of a dinner plate and I don't believe she came from the wild because she has no scratches or any kind of damage to her shell. She seems like she is used to people handling her, and she likes to cover herself up with the towel. I am unable to keep her and want her to go to a good home. Please contact me as soon as possible so she can get the care she needs. I do not know how to care for her properly and don't want anything to happen to her because I am doing something wrong. I have been trying to feel her lettace. Please let me know if someone would like to take her or where I might take her. Thanks

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Jeremy Roche - 2012-02-28
Bring her to a pet shop and donate her. Some times your local shelter will always take turtles and and be better suited to care for the turtle. Good rule of thumb, if it is out in the wild leave it there. Turtles adapte very well.
shirley Mirenda - 2012-03-22
I would love to have this turtle and would give her a very good home. I have always loved turtles and frogs and have had several over the years.
Jeremy Roche - 2012-03-22
If she isnt eating get some fish for it. They need meat as well. Iceberg lettuce doesn't have the needed nutrition.
peter lamborn - 2012-04-26
If you haven't placed her yet, I'd like to have her if she's still avaliable. I live in Florida, but shipping shouldn't be a problem. Please reply whatever the answer is.
georgia gomes - 2012-10-23
i have a turtle and i dont know if it is a girl or a boy how can i find out?

sally - 2012-10-09
How do you tell the sex of your tarantula

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Niki - 2012-10-21
the legs if there legs are longer (girl) widder(boydont understand all and ask me 615-215-9079

john - 2012-10-19
Yes! I finally got my desert kingsnake to ecxept frozen fuzzies!The problem is that I was wondering is that don't snakes need exercise? And isnt eating the only time the really burn a decent amount of calories? what I am trying to say is I don't want a fat snake and snakes dont use execise wheels so how am I going to make sure he gets exercise?

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Jeremy Roche - 2012-10-19
Snakes use an incredible about of muscles to move which burns a lot of energy and because they do not eat as often as other animals it is unlikely that it will become over weight.

Anonymous - 2012-10-15
Romane lettuce works every time.

john - 2012-10-14
Hi, I got a splendida phase desert king snake yesterday at a reptile expo/show and was told that he was eating live rat pinkies and mice hoppers and I was wondering if there was an easy way to get him to frozen/thawed because he is so beautiful and I don't want him to get hurt. P.S. he is about 2 feet long.

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Clarice Brough - 2012-10-14
Converting him to frozen/thawed is a great ides, and there are tons of methods used to accomplish this. Some will work for some snakes and others work for other snakes. Some of the easiest suggestions include: warming the food before its offered and then placing it in the feeding cage with tongs, put some drops of oil from a can of tuna on it before offering it, or dipping it in some chicken broth. The important thing is to be patient, it may take a while for your snake to get hungry enough to try this 'new' food.

john - 2012-10-14
Hi, me and my step brother bought some snakes at a reptile show yesterday. My snake (splendida phase desert kingsnake) is in great health,but it's my step brothers snake(hypo pinstripe ball python) that I am worried about. When we set it down to get a better look at it, it reared up like like a cobra and stayed like that for 30 seconds. Is something wrong with it or is it being a normal baby snake?

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Clarice Brough - 2012-10-14
As its a new baby ball python, it is probably nervous. See the info on handling above.

Jerry Feldner - 2010-06-20
I don't know where people get the idea that Gopher Snakes are burrowers. Yes, they enter many burrows but that is because the scent of rodents is strong in those burrows. I have never seen nor heard of a Gopher burrowing on its own. Now, there are snakes which burrow such as Chionactis and Chilomeniscus to name a couple but the majority of their burrowing takes place in soft substrate or sand.

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el jashobs - 2010-08-19
Uh my gopher snake is an extreme burrower and he burrows in thick aspen bed.
Dawn - 2010-09-21
Well we have a sonoran and have modified her habitat to allow her to burrow, because she does indeed burrow, and has made many different tunnels and ways through her home. She not only digs down through the substrate, but actually rearranges the dirt to her liking, she also has several different places she likes to pop her head up and "blend" with her surroundings, So I must disagree with you, they DO burrow, and are not only good at it but seem to really enjoy it. :)
James - 2010-12-09
I think your mistaken by the use of the word "burrowing".
I have 3 Sonoran Gopher Snakes myself and keep them on coconut fibre or aspen, and they do "burrow" meaning they completely disappear into/underneath the substrate. If the substrate is just right they can make a maze of tunnels but usually destroy them soon after.
Many other snakes display similar "burrowing" habits, kings, milks, rainbow boas, sand/rosy/rubber boas, just to name a few.
Where as I have never seen a boa constrictor, carpet python or ball python exhibit any of this behaviour. Not to say they don't do it, I just haven't witnessed it with my animals.
Dawn - 2011-02-22
Well my SGS burrows all the time, of course we have provided a deep enough substrate to allow her to do so, she seems to love it. She has burrows going all over in her enclosure. So now you have heard of an SGS that burrows.
kylan - 2011-11-27
My gopher snake is sneezing and it hasn't eatin her pinkies for almost a month and a half. What do I do?
brayden - 2012-03-09
Take it to a vet
Anonymous - 2012-10-12
my snake sneezes but only after in water, and your snake is probaly not hungry. how old and long is it

Delphinia - 2012-10-09
I have had a rose-hair for about 2 weeks now. She (I think a she) has been fine and only reared up at me once. I have touched her back legs and had her fine with that, and thought I would try putting my hand in to start getting her used to it. I had my hand laying in the cage, palm up, for about 2 seconds when she jumped at my hand. She didn't rear up first or anything, and didn't hurt or bite me. I have been trying to find out why she might have done this, and haven't been able to find any information about it.

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Clarice Brough - 2012-10-12
Sounds like it is very nervous. It is not being overly aggressive... but definitely not wanting to be interactive. Tarantulas don't actually relish being held, though this type of tarantula is one of the most docile. You may want to check its habitat to see if its comfortable - the temperature and humidty - and see that it has a place for it to retreat like with a piece of driftwood or bark.

Bev Schott - 2012-08-18
We had someone to look after our 15 year old painted turtle but it got out of his cage...We have been looking for 2 days..Will he survive . We are just sick with worry

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Jeremy Roche - 2012-08-20
Turtles usually adapt very well to the wild as long as the temperature are high enough.
Kathryn Hardy - 2012-10-09
My dad recently found a big painter near echo lake in henrico, virginia. I don't know if that's the one you were talking about or not but it was in the middle of the road and me and my sister took him/her to the park and let him/her go.

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