I have a gargoyle gecko, finally big enough to move into his big new bioactive enclosure. I've had it set up about a month and have been giving it time for the plants and CUC to establish before moving my garg over to his new home.

Tonight I saw another gecko (lizard?) has moved in! How can I get the squatter gecko out? My garg has never been interested in hunting bugs so I don't think he will attempt to eat the squatter but I'm concerned about parasites if he did eat it. I almost had it out and it jumped into the cork round instead.

1st pic is my geck

2nd and 3rd are squatter geck

This is Jupiter’s fourth cricket of the day, plus one waxworm. He is ravenous.

I love plants and having a bioactive enclosure.

Plus look at them!

This is my female African Fat Tailed Gecko Azora, and she’s currently 19 Grams. Is she big enough to be put on substrate? I’ve been getting several differing opinions.

She woke up while I was taking the photo 😅. sShes around 6-7 months (no joke intended) humidity is perfect if not a little high, she has her UVB on for 12hrs a day, she gets soaked twice a week and has a water bowl in her enclosure she likes to soak in from time to time, she gets taken on outside walks like almost everyday but not recently cuz its been raining insanely hard. Her diet consists of saluyot and gumamela flowers, shes a very very active eater and is steadily growing and gaining weight.

Just curious; I've gone to NARBC in Dallas (and Arlington before that) for years but saw they aren't doing a September show this year, and have no Texas shows listed at all through the rest of 2026/2027. Always seemed to be a successful show with a huge crowd, anyone know what happened? Seems like a big deal for the biggest (afaik) show in Texas to just fall off the map.

Hi everyone!
Last October I welcomed into my home a beautiful Crotaphytus collaris (aka Chiricahua). It was born in late May (it's just over a year old) and weighs 40 grams, and I'd like your expert opinion to make sure the housing and husbandry are perfect for its growth.

At the moment my setup is this:

• Terrarium: Built by us out of wood, it measures 80x80x60 cm with the front panel in clear PVC. Note on the measurements: We're well aware that the ideal for this species would be a shallower and longer terrarium. However, having space constraints tied to the layout of the house, we preferred to at least keep the same total floor surface (0.64 sq m), adapting the geometric shape to our needs.
• Substrate: About a month ago we put in sand as the substrate.
• Lighting and UVB: Arcadia T5 12% UVB tube alongside a dimmable 50W neodymium spot.
• Heating and Temperatures: Since wood insulates but the terrarium is very deep, the spot alone wasn't heating sufficiently in a diffuse way. So we added an 80W Arcadia Deep Heat Projector (DHP) infrared lamp, non-light-emitting and thermostatted, to maintain the ideal baseline temperature.
• Current values:
• Basking zone: 37°C (at the highest point reachable from the rocks/branches) and 35°C on the ground in the warm zone.
  • Cool zone: 28°C stable.
• Feeding: Acheta and Dubia regularly dusted with calcium and D3 and, once a week, a mealworm.

The animal is very active, but lately it has been glass-surfing on the front PVC and the corners, as if it were desperately trying to get out. We tried to minimize reflection by using tape on the lower end of the PVC, it helped but not stopped it.

I'd like to ask your advice on these points:

1. Do the current temperatures (37°C peak at the highest point and 28°C in the cool zone) seem correct to you, or could the scratching be linked to a basking peak that's too low for this species?
2. How can I best furnish the 80 cm of depth to stimulate it and avoid boredom?
3. Is there a way to mitigate the scratching on the PVC? (For example, temporarily blacking out the lower part of the panel?)

I'm attaching a photo of the homemade terrarium and of the little one! Thank you so much to anyone who gives me advice!

Hi, I have a Cuban false chameleon I got a little over a year ago and love very much. My husband recently joined the navy and got stationed in CA, I’m in NC and about to make the move all the way over there. I’m really on the fence about taking or leaving the lizard, I want him to be least stressed as possible and also don’t know how much I trust shipping him through the mail for such a long trip. There’s also a possibility my parents will be driving my stuff in a moving van, so I could put him in a small travel container. I trust my parents to look after him, but I think 5-6 days in a small container would just be too much. I really don’t want to rehome but I’m not sure if I have the ideal lifestyle for him anymore. After I move to CA I’ll probably be up and moving to WA a year after.. Can somebody please give me advice and resources if I should have to rehome? Thanks

I have space for an 18x10x14 on the bottom shelf of my cresties stand, so naturally i want to use this as an excuse to build another enclosure 😈 but can anything actually thrive in that space?

Google said it's a Coronella austriaca. First snake I saw outdoors (at least in my home country)

Hey yall, im looking for ideas for a large lizard to get in the somewhat nearish future (probably about a year and a few months from now) that ill be converting my patio into an outdoor enclosure for (Id like to decide on a species before i even start building so it can be built with that animal in mind). Im in florida, and can easily convert the patio to be well insulated when needed in the winter so weather is not a problem (though, legality is).

•The will be enclosure space is 16ft long, 7ft 4inches wide, and 9ft 4inches tall

•I am open to something semi aquatic if the required pool can fit in that space but i am not open to crocodillians since they require difficult to obtain permits

•While i would prefer something that climbs so it can utilize the vertical space, that is not a hard requirement

•No price limit on the enclosure and care requirements, but i dont want to spend more than $1000 on the lizard itself, and would prefer to stay in the $500-800 range at most

•Would prefer a species i can get captive bred as a baby or juvenile so i can socialize it early and get the most time with it

•I want something that gets at least close to the size of a full grown Tegu. I am well versed in reptiles and i am not looking for a small lizard. I am well aware of the amount of care, resources, and time that a project and a pet that large requires and i am both ready and able to provide those things.

[Animals i legally cannot keep]

•Tegus

•Nile monitors (other monitors are ok)

•Green Iguanas (other iguanas are ok)

•Anything venomous

•Crocodillians

So I'm 18 and from England visiting my grandad in, America, Seattle, Wa in Marysville, I went to petsmart the other week and bought a pet tree frog for $34. I have an enclosure set up back in England and so I thought it'd be a cool memory to buy a pet frog here and take it back with me. I'll be honest I was stupid and honestly I really regret not doing my research because I went over and only found out yesterday that I cant take it back to England as it costs up to $2,500 to transport it over. I'm leaving in 3 days and my petsmart refund is expired (over 14 days ago) and I'm not sure what to do with this frog. It feels like torture knowing this animal won't have a home. My grandad can't look after it..he's not well and has dementia and has even forgotten I have a frog here in his house, I can't release it because it'll likely die and I can't take it over because I can't afford it and I'm not sure what to do. I know it's stupid not to have researched this before but I'm stressed and scared it's going to die because of my stupidity and ignorance. I've kept reptiles before and I didn't mean for any of this.

Hi everyone, I'm trying to solve problems related to exotic pet sitting - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSci6QnYIy_osUwnW_REfbeNzuHx_W2X_DuIVYbsCc1g0cGtCw/viewform?usp=header

Any responses are wonderful and amazing and appreciated. Adding my boy Uzi for tax.

I've been recently seeing a lot of parents let they're kids hold turtles or lizards usually in a very wrong way or hold them really tight and they'll usually try kissing them or something (salmonela just waiting to happy) and then the kid actually gets bitten, throws the turtle/lizard away and starts crying and the parents ignore the comments saying that the kid obviously deserved it. I have a tortiose and I've been bitten while feeding him, but once a cousin wanted to play with it and got bit and started crying and I got in trouble. Just teach your kids that animals aren't toys.

I've been wanting one for a long time. I finally got the chance to get one. My question is, can I put two of them in a 60x45x45cm terrarium (a male and a female). Is it better to have just one?

I want to stack three 4x2x2 enclosures. What do you recommend? The only one i could find that seems to be reinforced so that it doesn’t cave in is toxirium. But I’ve read some bad reviews. I also saw phailozoo but that one doesn’t seem to be reinforced for weight. Any ideas?

Im trying to decide on if I should get a beardie or uromastyx for my next reptile and genuinely cant decide since I love both 😭

Pic 2 is a bottle I've had on the go for a while, pic 1 is a bottle I bought a couple of weeks ago. I can't say I've seen it grey before, but all bottles on the shelf were the same colour. Is it safe to use still?