I suggest contacting your local natcon offices to get an official response. Things may have changed, but from what I recall years back, you, as the breeder only need licenses for your animals, and when they breed and you want to sell, you need to apply for a transport permit from your place to the b...

Goodness, that is not ideal! Is it possible to post a picture of your new addition please? Regarding your questions, 1. You are legally not allowed to keep indigenous reptiles without a permit in any province bar KZN (Assume you're based in Cape Town from your username?) 2. I would not release it wi...

Hi Bruce

I speak under correction, but I dont think Bullfrogs occur around Durban.

Possibly it was an accidental bite? You may find the frog was just trying to escape and ended up with its mouth open.

Also a change it could be one of the larger toads. They can be quite agro!

Hi Bernice

Are you quite sure the hole has eroded into his gut? If so, that sounds beyond home treatment.

Can you perhaps share a photo or two?

Nice one.

I have found a sharp decline in the amount of callouts the past year or two, so any callout is a bonus.

Hi

This forum is virtually dead so rather dont rely on getting a decent response.

My advise is get the leo to a vet ASAP.

Not sure if you go it this way, but the gecko looks in a very sorry state, even excluding the abscess, so the vet may want to euthanize it.

Good luck.

Hi Jigglypuff The forum is super quiet the past couple months so you likely wont get a bite here. I suggest contacting some of the KZN guys. They often breed Eggies and simply release babies. They can apply for an export permit which will allow you to get a transport permit for the Western Cape. Pro...

Those lineatus are great.

Here's a crappy cellphone photo showing the extent of the striping in the Namaqualand ones. Picture in situ on a stone wall.

And here is the striped capensis. Theyre all striped from head to tail.

Sorry to hijack the topic a bit Ian, but yes, I do GCol.

The following two snakes were found on the same road on the same night. The striped ones are much rarer than the typical mentalis.

Here is the typical mentalis

First off, beautiful snake. In general, snakes are very forgiving when it comes to cage size. I would say if you cage is 0.75-1.5 times the length of your snake, you are set. So for a 900mm snake you can have a 700-1500mm long enclosure. Your choice depends on many things like space at home, budget ...

Ian, do you know if anyone is working with the striped Namaqualand house snakes that are near-identical to the lineatus?

Sorry, cant help you on where to find chams, but on why the forum is so quiet, couple of things come to mind: - Hectic spam attacks the forum had just before the collapse - Restrictions put in place to control the spammers preventing sharing on pictures - Other platforms being used more regularly - ...

I know the forum is pretty dead, but how was the expo?

Did anyone take pics?

Great finds Nick and great photography too.

I happened to have a look at the ToPS list not too long ago and it is sad how little effort went into that document, considering these species with such limited distributions and under such pressure.

Thanx for sharing.