Pet Reptiles

Anoles – often called “American Chameleons” after their ability to change colour – make good pets, being fairly easy to care for in captivity and...

When it comes to keeping snakes as pets, nothing rivals the corn snake. Strikingly patterned and available in a large number of colour “morphs”,...

Geckoes are becoming ever more popular as pets – and with good reason. They are a fascinating group, being very easy to care for on the whole and...

With some 25 subspecies available, each with different patterning and appearance, Milk Snakes are probably some of the most colourful – and...

One of the first exotic pets – and certainly one of the most instantly recognised and universally loved of all reptiles – we’ve been keeping...

King Snakes and their close relatives, the Rat Snakes, are well known to snake-keepers the world over, not least for their docile temperaments,...

Known in their native America as Red-Eared Slider Turtles, Trachemys scripta elegans is a well-known and long-standing feature of the...

Iguanas are large and impressive lizards, their size, crests and dew-laps making them look for all the world like “stand-ins” for a dinosaur movie....

Both Butterfly Lizards and Plated Lizards are offered for sale from time to time, and can make interesting vivarium pets. Of the two, Plated...

Snapping turtles are some of the largest, weirdest and most fascinating freshwater turtles in the world. Often to be seen offered for sale as...

Terrapins are ever popular pets and while most people immediately think of the American Red-Eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) or some...

Skinks are one of the most fascinating and widespread of all kinds of lizards. Their family – the Scincidae – comprises some 1,200 species, which...

As their name suggests, swifts are fast moving, agile little lizards, and although they are not the easiest of reptiles to keep, if properly cared...