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General Information & Other Resources
General articles on reptile cages and cage making, reptile care sheets, reptile maintenance and other useful resources. These also include reptile cage construction materials, reptile cage cleaning, snake care, turtle cage making, cage flooring and socializing snakes.
These are being continually added to. There are currently care sheets on a range of aspects on:
- Bearded dragons
- Bearded Dragon (pdf)
- Blue Tongued Skink or Lizards
- Children's Pythons
- Dumnerils Boa
- Carpet Pythons
- Leopard Geckos
- General Snake Care
- Black & White Tegu
- Diamond Python
- Uromastyx.html
- Burmese Python (pdf)
- Jungle Carpet Python
- Collared Lizard
- Water Dragon
These are questions from people who are looking for assistance about building a reptile cage, have a question they wanted and answer to or just wanted to run an idea past me. Feel free to browse the questions and answers. Examples of these are:
- Building Large snake cages
- Making a large snake cage in a basement
- Outdoor Iguana Cage Roof
- Converting Speakers for a Reptile Cage
- Starting Work on a New Snake Cage
- Stacking Snake Cages
- New Snake in poor condition and changing cages
- Using Linseed Oil for Internal Snake Cage Finish
- Supporting a Large Snake and Arboreal Cage Tips
- Worried About Heating a Snake Cage from Below
- Heating Base of Reptile Cage with Flexwatt
- How much ventilation should I have for my reptile cage?
- Snake for children's classroom
- New snake cage, sensing and temperature
- Childrens Python not Feeding
- Bearded Dragon Winter Temperature
- Iguana maybe has Mouth Rot
- Leopard Gecko Diet
- Feeding Burton's Legless Lizard (Lialis burtonis)
- Young Snake Not Fully Shedding
The newsletter Archive contains all the past Newsletters of Keeping Reptiles. There are a large range of reptile related resources and articles, care sheets. Information is reguarly updated. Go to the archive and browse the extensive list of materials and articles from around the world. We have collected materials from some of the best herp owners and breeders in the world and are working hard to provide you with the best information we can.
Some of the topics covered in past issues are:
- Reptile Cage Construction material
- Cleaning and Disinfecting
- Home made window/glass cleaner
- An Approach to Socializing Snakes
- Feeding Snakes - Dead Food
- Feeding Snakes - Live Food
- Snake Mites -part 1, part 2, part 3
- Burmese Python Care
- Dumeril's Boa Care
- Salmonella and Reptiles
- Making a Turtle Table
- Carpet Python Care
- Blue Tongues Downunder
- Handling Lizards
- Comparison of UV Lamps
- Bearded Dragon Care
- Bearded Dragon Diet
- Snake nutrition
- Iguana Care and early death
Fun stuff. Stories about keeping snakes and lizards that went wrong or were a bit of fun.
- Fear and Loathing in Balnarring
- Moving reptiles from one cage should be easy....
- Lost in the Snake Pit
- Why the heck would you have a pet snake (or lizard, crocodile, monitor, frog, turtle etc)?
- Not for the squeamish....
- Hawaii Geck O - A Detective Story
- Brave Little Eyecon, the Bearded Dragon
- Rabbit Super Hero
Question and Answers to Emails
Reptile and Snake Cage Building Questions
- Building Large snake cages
- Making a large snake cage in a basement
- Outdoor Iguana Cage Roof
- Converting Speakers for a Reptile Cage
- Starting Work on a New Snake Cage
- Stacking Snake Cages
- New Snake in poor condition and changing cages
- Using Linseed Oil for Internal Snake Cage Finish
- Supporting a Large Snake and Arboreal Cage Tips
- Worried About Heating a Snake Cage from Below
- Heating Base of Reptile Cage with Flexwatt
- How much ventilation should I have for my reptile cage?
- Formaldehyde and out-gassing from particle board and MDF
- Homemade snake cage question - building into existing walls next to a chimney
- Large lizard cage on a limited budget
- Materials for simple, secure, cost-efficient snake enclosure
- Blue Tongue Lizard Cage Set Up
- Lost Ball Python Under Floorboards
- Plexiglass too expensive for large cage
- Waterproof Cage for Snapping Turtles
- Large Cage for Gila Monsters
Reptile and Snake Care Questions
- Snake for children's classroom
- New snake cage, sensing and temperature
- Childrens Python not Feeding
- Bearded Dragon Winter Temperature
- Iguana maybe has Mouth Rot
- Leopard Gecko Diet
- Feeding Burton's Legless Lizard (Lialis burtonis)
- Young Snake Not Fully Shedding
- Breeding Rats and Crickets
Links to vetinarian resources, herpsitters, and some useful herp links. This is continuing to be expanded.
Links to owners reptiles and reptile cages. Email me and add yours to the collection.
A list of reptile related sites and links. You can add your link or to the list by emailing me and exchanging a link on your site in return. Once a link is added I will review your site and add it to the list. Herp selling, care or pet related sites only please.
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