Hi everyone while gardening at my parents place over christmas, i found my largest, and smallest scorpion ever. i think the large one is Opistophthalmus, but not sure about the species and also not sure about the small one. heres the biggest one, and a close up showing the mouth parts http://www.sar...

i did have the temp at a constant 28 degrees so it's possible that they are hatching a week early. will put the humidity back up.

thanx froot.

hi guys. i was wondering if anyone could offer some advice. my parents are incubating my eggs for me and after visiting them this weekend, i saw that my texas ratsnake eggs are HUGE. as in double the size of my grey ratsnake eggs. or even triple. they are due to hatch the 25th of Feb. the one egg ha...

thanx drummer.

apologies, i forgot to add where it is from. its from 300km north of cape town about 50km from the coast.

I work in the garden quite often, so while cutting the grass next to the fish pond, I saw what I think to be a pair of sand toads mating. I watched the whole process which only took like 30mins. I just love the strings of eggs. Hope you like, and if anyone could positively ID the toads, that would b...

my best wishes for your dad. while planning my trip to the DRC, the doctor suggested i do not take the malaria pills that was mentioned by Dee747. he said that, especialy if one has to take it for a long time, the body can become imune to it. he rather suggested mosquito nets, repellant and taking a...

@ craig, yeah geology is still fun. having a ball. just hoping to still et time to go herping, but things have been a bit hectic lately

trayton, check your PM

Thanx for all the welcomes guys. i got quite a few pics i want to upload of some indigenous, so please just be patient

thanx for the welcome guys @michelle, i do plan on getting into geckos again as soon as i settle down. i'm travelling around a lot and getting new animals now would just be senseless i would like to keep some colopus, and some of the rarer pachydactylus. we will just have to wait and see what happen...

Hi guys. i had some problems with the internet the past few months and have been very scarce. i was known as "west" but this is my new username as the old one seems to have been the source of my troubles. for those of you that do not know me, i do keep a few exotic non-venomous but my hear...