Herpetobotanical
herpetobotanical adj. \ˌhər-pə-ˈtä-bə-ˈta-ni-kəl\ : of or relating to reptiles, amphibians, and plants.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Shell Care
The turtle in the picture is one of my Craig's List "rescues", The Gulf Coast Integrade. She has some shell damage and possible old inactive shell rot. It's nothing terribly serious at this point, but to be safe, her shell was scrubbed with Betadine (by my friend Jerry). This removes any sort of dirt or other foreign matter that may be trapped in the grooves of the shell, and kills harmful bacteria.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Beautiful Snakes
Xenodermis javanicus
Bothriechis schleglii
Lampropeltis elapsoides
Morelia viridis
Aspidites melanocephalus
Gecko Breeder
This guy has some amazing species. If you're looking for geckos, check him out.
http://www.ddreptiles.net/projects.html
http://www.ddreptiles.net/projects.html
Friday, February 4, 2011
Turtles Tales: The Gulf Coast Integrade
She doesn't have a name. I just call her "The Gulf Coast Integrade". I got her from a Craig's List post that said something along the lines of "Help! My roommate abandoned a turtle and I think it's dying!" I drove out to West Seattle to get her. She wasn't dying, but she was set up all wrong, had a lot of shell damage, and a severely overgrown beak. She wasn't able to eat anymore, her beak was so overgrown. The picture above is from after her beak trim, at which point in time she became the biggest pig out of the entire box turtle colony.
I don't know much about her, but looking at her body gives a few hints. The first mystery is her species. She is much larger than the other box turtles in the colony, which suggests that she could be a Gulf Cost box turtle, but other markers don't match up, so we think she's an integrade between a Gulf Coast and some other box turtle species.
Her shell has a very natural shape, suggesting that she was wild caught as an adult. But she also has a lot of shell damage, some of which is clearly shell rot, and some of which is harder to pinpoint. She was probably kept incorrectly for a long time.
That's all I can really say about her, but she's definitely a nice, friendly turtle.
I don't know much about her, but looking at her body gives a few hints. The first mystery is her species. She is much larger than the other box turtles in the colony, which suggests that she could be a Gulf Cost box turtle, but other markers don't match up, so we think she's an integrade between a Gulf Coast and some other box turtle species.
Her shell has a very natural shape, suggesting that she was wild caught as an adult. But she also has a lot of shell damage, some of which is clearly shell rot, and some of which is harder to pinpoint. She was probably kept incorrectly for a long time.
That's all I can really say about her, but she's definitely a nice, friendly turtle.
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