Top tier hiding you're doing there, Mr. Milkman 🐍 B. Maculata

That's a couple of spiders

Look at the little one

Super Boo after a fresh shed #herps

Check out the videos in the article Pretty amazing

If this was a resource you used early in exploring reptiles - great. There's no shame in that. It got spammed to boost Google search rank. Mariah is actually banned indefinitely from Wikipedia for vandalizing it for SEO. Now it's time to mature your sources beyond spammed trash like ReptiFiles

Reminded again today that ReptiFiles is still sadly considered a source in reptile pet keeping. RRK, Happy Dragons, etc all push that slop. Mariah knocked off wikipedia and countless keeper blogs with no attribution while promoting keepers feed axolotls to western hognose snakes. 🤡 Who needs AI?

Can you kick flip the pod? Hoping for a rubber ducky and zebra skin. The variety of isopods out there is wild with many keeping them as tank friends to larger animals while others keep the pods alone as pets

The girl is angry Albino Darwin carpet

My Australian dumpy tree frog's smile is contagious. ☺️ My Portfolio: portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity #naturephotography #nature #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #photography #amphibian #treefrog #frog #herps

Super pied mussurana spotted at Tinley

Who out there is keeping wonderful pet rats?

it's... bananaaa!!!

Yep! If you want a real nightmare you should see the sunshine doctors in the reptile hobby tell you their pets need UV lamps because, they say, masks are less effective than vitamin D. There is actually a pervasive coronavirus that kills pet reptiles and they refuse to test for it. Seriously.

There is so much more that could be done but we will take a "trust me, bro, they like it" study. Brian plasticity is a topic people haphazardly toss around and, as far as we know, has nothing to do with UV. A large dynamic environment does affect well-being in other animals (including humans)

This, of course, also applies to our scaley friends, too

Some 241 million years ago in what is now England, a tiny, lizardlike creature had teeth well suited for snapping after insects. Now named Agriodontosaurus helsbypetrae, this extinct reptile may be the oldest of its kind ever found. https://scim.ag/3V75MC5

It is real! There are a ton of really cool jumping spiders and the royal jumper is a great pet.

Oof Surely that ended up in 2 days of people screaming about chlorhexidine

Obligatory don't mess with widlife etc etc but look at these little chompers What a cool thing to capture

A bleak reminder that this is the future ReptiFiles was copied from Wikipedia and other sources. This *quite normal pre-AI* slop propelled those guides to being featured in RRK and Happy Dragons often promoting Reptiles and Research Most certainly future leaders in Reptile AI slop

It's worth noting this is in regards to specifically the actual temperature and not solar radiation, etc. Obviously this is also a study on humans which is not quite the same. There will be exceptions and adjustments for animal models. (cont)

One day closer to the incorrectly labelled "ethical keepers" will soon be inventing "UV free" ways to keep reptiles after years of rejecting reptile science and medicine To be clear, UV is *generally* the safest way to provide crucial vitamin D but has been over delivered and a topic of bullying

ReptiLinks, a well known company that creates whole prey links for pet reptiles, has a sister company named True Whole Prey... for dogs! It would be amazing to find out if someone is using these - no dogs here, but the colubrids and womas love ReptiLinks

When invasive rats are removed from an island, native populations of lizards can thrive. Leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus maresi) #Galapagos #geckos #Galapagosislands #invasiverats reptilesmagazine.com/galapagos-ge...

A beautiful reminder that "morphs" come from the wild and often don't quite have the third grade eco result people are delusional about (generally "if it's a different color evolution kills it because survival of the fittest" - this is false) This fish is a healthy adult

We do a little programming with python. 🐍 Am I doing this right?

By some miracle I did not bring one of them home with me today. Yet. For now.

Lizard lizard 🦎

Oops in a recent video Adam "users say my whole discord server is Roblox so I sold it" Wickens, good friend of Donny, teases UV being a scam. Seriously predicting a count down until "ethical keepers" claim to "discover" a way to keep leopard geckos "UV free" The reptile hobby is very embarrassing

Beverley is here to share some STARING today!

a sufficiently determined hognose would have the aura to pull this off tbh

Have a cute video of a baby ball python. This is several years old and this little one has a new home. They grow up so fast 🥲

Ironically, these keepers will be intent on saving money and soon we will see "ethical keepers" looking for alternatives to tariffed lamps and supplies. They'll miraculously "discover" their bullying over specific lamps over the past few years was very fake and praise themselves 🤦

Sharing this not because it's insightful but because they do not understand they are the problem Dillon, the host, will gladly push sunshine cures from the 1970s, which is what RFK Jr. and Trump promote, to help sell an Arcadia lamp while avoiding actual science. Now they're upset it's expensive.

Shortly after our update on nidovirus, The BioDude posted that they have a situation with their snakes and disease. It is unfortunate and we wish them well, but the irony isn't loss as BioDude is one of the many people pushing UV lamps as "disinfecting" and claim they prevent disease like this.

Ball Python Serpentovirus (Nidovirus) 2025 resolvereptiles.com/ball-python-...

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Always interesting when animals develop resistances like this

While you're waiting for those Epstein Files, you can stay busy with New England Reptile Distributors' former employee and media man Donny Rapture in the Repstein Files

The tort feels Do not upset the tort Hold the tort gently like hamburger

Scientists discover Burmese pythons have never-before-seen cells that help them digest entire skeletons via Live Science

New England Reptile Distributors (NERD) employee Donald K. Forsyth III (aka Donny Rapture) arrested for Criminal Restraint and False Imprisonment of a young woman Donny was a NERD employee for years and responsible for videos including attacking customers who claimed to have purchased sick animals

Waffles, a woma python, hanging out on his rock. Womas do magic and somehow fit in hides you don't think they should fit in #herps Womas are great - except Googling them often autocorrects... adds an n... "Cage size for a captive woma" oh no how do I delete my browser history help

Reptile ears are weird

I know this is bluesky and not facebook, but I do want to make a clear point if someone later wants to bleat "ad hominem!" An ad hominem: "Don't trust this person because they're stupid" They're stupid because we can prevent preventable disease That's not ad hominem. That's verifiable.

You might see this drama around #reptiles on Facebook, etc The topic is cryptosporidium and I would like to very much acknowledge professionally that this biologist.... Is quite stupid and insane. They seem to be spouting things that do not align with factual clinical data around cryptosporidium

She's such a patient girl when it comes to food thawing, not so much when it's inside the cage with her 🐍 boiruna maculata

It can't be said enough that reptile medicine should be a priority for anyone interested in reptiles #herps can go pretty far without indicating any discomfort. Chams are known for being "unphased" but having broken ribs and punctured lungs Interact appropriately, note reactions Get those checkups

Reptiles were here 40 million years earlier than thought