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I have kept all three species and if you can keep an enclosure humid and somewhat ventilated, keeping these guys thriving is not a challenge. Planted terrariums with two ventilation grills on each side worked very well but I have kept them in plastic bins without problems either. Just give them...

Thanks for this! Amazing job and good proof how resilient these animals are!

They started to captive breed these in Europe finally. Thought about getting one but semi-aquatic requirement keeps me away for now. They go around 1500 Euros for captive bred babies around here. Very cool, ancient looking lizards. Congrats on getting one.

Male Pacman frog will work and there are a lot of cool paint jobs with those.

Shedding issues are a problem with these guys so I have always provided a hide with damp moss on one end, never had an issue with impaction neither with adults or the babies I have raised. Didn't lose a single toe after the introduction of the moss. Just monitor feeding time and make sure they...

I kept my rodents with my other frozen food until I got married, had no issues for years. Once, you get married, there are other complications, which made me buy a freezer.

Awesome lizards... I downsized my collection to nothing after my son was born but I couldn't help myself with this little boy when I saw him up for grabs. Heloderma suspectum cinctum: And here is a video:

Yeah, the awareness of the animal is something else. The short amount of time I had with the baby I've kept showed me that I was constantly being watched by this snake. The response I got was not impulsive and felt calculated. Compare it to a death adder where you get bit when you are in range...

Have no idea mate but that's one big flower :). So the father of this snake was about 350cm and WC in Yunnan area, the mother was from Hainan (I was mistaken as this is an Island) and I do not know the size of her. One thing that is really cool is that he feeds regularly with no problems. He...

Not really, they do occur naturally in Southern China. They are visibly banded and darker in coloration.

Oh, I do know about insular dwarfism of course. All those dwarf pythons floating around etc. I have never seen an example of a King Cobra though, even if I have heard claims. This was a first. By the way, this snake was a product of two different localities from mainland China.

This is a difficult one. People have a soft spot for monkeys I guess because we are closely related and people can empathize. I would never get one myself as I lack the space and time required for their care. That being said; -Dogs are highly social animals and they suffer everywhere around...

@The Snark Help me out here, did you see or hear something like this? I have visited a friend yesterday, who claims he has a gem. A king Cobra, about 2 years old, feeds regularly on snakes and rodents with a normal appetite and is about 5 ft long! Plus, it is a male! He is supposed to be a...

So cool.

Very cool. But the leucies are amazing ;).

Springtails are great, I use them in all of my tropical enclosures with no problems whatsoever.

It is the season for a little bit of rough love:

For enclosures, keep it simple with venomous snakes. A water dish, some sort of non-dusty, absorbent substrate and a hide box is enough. For babies, you can keep them in small enclosures but for an adult atrox, I would give him/her space. Rule of thumb in Switzerland is the length of the...

Yeah, necrosis is known in O.hannah bites. Once you take a bite from a full grown king cobra, you are pretty much done unless you are in a snake farm with medical capabilities and shitload of antivenom. A full grown C.atrox would not be fun either and can very well kill you. Plus, as others...

Centipedes are amazing predators and they will probably eat anything they can outpower. I am sure if one happens to find a nest of baby mice, it will eat them with gusto. This doesn't mean in captivity, we have to replicate everything that "may" happen in nature. Otherwise, we would need to let...