Reptile & Amphibian News Blog
Keep up with news and features of interest to the reptile and amphibian community on the kingsnake.com blog. We cover breaking stories from the mainstream and scientific media, user-submitted photos and videos, and feature articles and photos by Jeff Barringer, Richard Bartlett, and other herpetologists and herpetoculturists.
Thursday, August 15 2013
Throughout the decades, ready availability at affordable prices have kept the leopard tortoise, Geochelone ( Stigmochelys) pardalis, high on the list of hobbyist favorites. I have always been on of those hobbyists.
My four leopard tortoises, received from long-time friend and fellow field researcher Randy Limberg, arrived as several day old hatchlings. To say the least their appetite was already on the hearty side and, like Topsy, the little creatures grew and grew -- and grew.
Within a very few years, all exceeded 30 pounds each, and the male was about 45 pounds. They were big, but even more importantly, they were personable, all being completely tame.
Continue reading "Leopards on the halfshell"
![](/blog/uploads/arlington.jpg) kingsnake.com is on the road to Daytona!
The kingsnake.com Zombiehunter truck is loaded up with "I Brake For Snakes" bumper stickers and RodentPro coupons and is en route to the National Reptile Breeders Expo in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Since it's been a while since kingsnake.com has been to Daytona, we're going to do something special. We have about 60 kingsnake t-shirts left, the "My Snake Is Bigger Than Your Snake" shirts, and some "rare" "kingsnake racing" shirts that we're going to bring to Daytona.
Everyone at the event who donates $10 to this years NRAAC Law Symposium can get one (while supplies last, of course!).
We never released the "kingsnake racing" shirts and only made a limited number (fewer than 50). The "My Snake Is Bigger" shirts are available in large, with only a couple 3XLs. The "kingsnake racing" shirts are available in XL and 2XL. Sorry, no smalls or mediums, these are the last of the last. Once they are gonel kingsnake.com t-shirts will only be available through our Cafe Press store.
Also, to help fund this year's Reptile and Amphibian Law Symposium in Washington D.C., the proceeds of all kingsnake.com display ad (banner) purchases or renewals from now until September 30 will be donated to NRAAC! With the symposium rapidly picking up size and speed as the date nears, and the goal to have 50 panelists and speakers lined up for this November's meeting, now you can help do your part in supporting this important event and get something in return!
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Biologists with the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) have suited up the continent's most endagered toad with a little backpack in an effort to prevent the species from going extinct.
The backpack holds a radio transmitter that will be used to track the toads in their range.
Photo: US Dept. of the Interior
This image of a Barking Tree Frog, uploaded by kingsnake.com user viandy, is our herp photo of the day!
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Wednesday, August 14 2013
![](/blog/uploads/mouseshacksmall2.jpg) Once we have the holes cut and the A/C and vent mounted, it's time to insulate the container. Every side of the container is steel, and every side of the container exposed to the sun will heat up and transmit that heat into the container. The more you can prevent that the better, and barring that, the more you can isolate the inside of the container from its metal sides and top the better.
The best product we have found for both of these are the reflective insulation panels found at most home improvement stores. Measuring 4 x 8 feet, these styrofoam-type panels cost from $10 to $15 each, and have a reflective foil surface on one side with a paper backing on the other. Easily trimmed to shape with an X-ACTO blade or even a sharp pocket knife, it took less than an hour and a can of spray adhesive to insulate the back and side walls, and another hour to seal the gaps between the panels with duct tape.
After turning on the A/C and letting the unit cool down, the next big problem to resolve came when I opened the big steel door. The minute it swung open, all the cool air came rushing out, and in seconds the unit was at the same temperature as the outside air. I had already planned on a fix for this, and within no time I had framed a wall and a pre-hung door 4 feet from the end, thus creating a small storage area and a "cool door" that could be opened without losing the inside temperature.
Finally I tackled the biggest problem, the roof. Initially I wanted to build a steel roof over the container, but in the end I Gorilla-glued 5 of the 3/4 reflective insulation panels to the outside of the roof. Designed for exterior use, they will survive all but the largest hail, and once the glue had dried, be impervious to wind. Best of all, where touching the roof from inside was once similar to grabbing a hot dinner plate, it was now cool to the touch and easily air-conditioned.
Now our mouse shack is ready to go!
![](/blog/uploads/bigstock-Funny-Turtle-32805587.jpg) It turns out well-managed golf courses are better turtle habitat than some farms and parks.
At least, that's the word from National Geographic, not normally prone to pro-golf hysteria. (If golf can be said to inspire anything like hysteria even among its devotees.)
In "Turtles Flourishing in Golf Course Ponds," NatGeo reports on two studies by University of Kentucky herpetologist Steven Price, published in the Journal of Herpetology:
Price and his colleagues sought to understand the fate of turtles in the Charlotte, North Carolina, metropolitan area, where galloping growth has swallowed 60 percent of the undeveloped land in some counties.
The researchers set out nets baited with tins of sardines in 20 local ponds. Some ponds were on golf courses, others in cattle pastures or neighborhood parks. The scientists checked the traps every other day, extracting any occupants by hand.
The surveys showed that two common species—the painted turtle and the slider—were just as abundant in golf course ponds as in farm ponds ... while neighborhood ponds placed a distant third.
And golf course ponds boasted a richer variety of turtle species than farm and neighborhood ponds, because the area around golf course ponds tended to have better connections to other green space, the scientists report in an upcoming issue of the journal Landscape and Urban Planning.
It's not clear why more kinds of turtles hang out near the fairways than down at the local park. Perhaps it's because golf courses often boast multiple ponds and even lakes or streams. And the courses' large stretches of grass and field are good for turtle nests.
Read the rest here.
This image of Rat Snakes getting frisky, uploaded by kingsnake.com user RandyWhittington, is our herp photo of the day!
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Tuesday, August 13 2013
Dennie Miller was excited. He had recently learned of the existence of a “new kingsnake” in Texas. This was the Blair’s kingsnake, a species that, according to the lore and to Dennie, was the “queen of them all."
Now, he, and we (Gordy Johnston and I) were piling into Gordy’s well aged (almost geriatric) VW beetle with Texas’ Hanging Judge Roy Bean’s legendary region our ultimate destination. Our quest—well, you can guess.
And as luck would have it, on that first hunt we succeeded in finding not one but two of those coveted kingsnakes that are now known, after several taxonomic modifications, to be a color variant of the gray-banded kingsnake, Lampropeltis alterna.
The first was a dark phase, and it was found beneath the cattle guard almost at the door of Bill and Doris Chamberlin’s old Langtry gas station.
The second one, much more brilliantly colored, was crossing the Comstock Road.
Continue reading "Way back when there really was a Blair's kingsnake"
![](/blog/uploads/TurtleCop.jpg) A Florida police officer saw some baby sea turtles in trouble, and decided to give them a hand.
From Yahoo News:
Sarasota Officer Derek Conley was on patrol at 1 a.m. Saturday when he saw sea turtle hatchlings crawling toward the front door of the Lido Beach Resort. A passerby also told Conley that several dozen other baby turtles were walking around the hotel's parking lot.
Conley, along with some resort guests, scooped up the hatchlings in a box and released them into the water.
"I began collecting hatchlings from the street and stopped traffic several times to do so," wrote Conley in a report.
A news release says that Conley spotted three dead turtles, and he estimates that 90-100 turtles were saved.
Conley also called two area marine rescue groups.
Read the rest, and watch video, here.
This image of a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, uploaded by kingsnake.com user kevinjudd, is our herp photo of the day!
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Monday, August 12 2013
Check out this video "Basic Reptile Incubator," submitted by kingsnake.com user PigZilla50317.
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This image of Blue Tree Monitors, uploaded by kingsnake.com user roadspawn, is our herp photo of the day!
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Friday, August 9 2013
![](/blog/uploads/mouseshacksmall1.jpg) Steel CONEX containers would be the perfect mouse shacks, if the sun didn't have a habit of turning them into gigantic ovens. But with a little ingenuity, a small air conditioner, and a reasonable amount of insulation you can quickly turn that oven into something cold enough to store meat in, even in the Texas sun.
CONEX boxes are available in many different types and sizes from gigantic 40-foot monsters down to tiny 6- or 8-foot units. Some are designed as cooler units, referred to as "reefers," but most are just giant steel boxes designed to carry goods in bulk around the world as deck cargo on ships, trains, or trucks.
The price varies, but used reefer units are generally out of the reasonable price range with 20-foot units going for $6000-$9000. A standard, non-leaker, used 20-foot CONEX box can usually be located on Craigslist for around $2000-$2500, and can be moved by most flat bed tow trucks a reasonable distance for $100 to $150. Larger, and heavier, 40-foot units usually require a specialized delivery truck, a lot more room, and a lot more money.
We found our CONEX box locally on Craigslist for $2100, and had a tow truck deliver it to our site for $150. Our unit came with passive louvered vents on the front door and the rear, although most do not. Once the unit was in place, we made the first of what would be many trips to Home Depot. There we bought a small window A/C, an inexpensive pre-hung interior door, some 2x4s and a number of 1/2- and 3/4-inch 4x8 reflective exterior insulation panels. And duct tape. Lots of duct tape.
With an active vent louver from Amazon.com and a box fan and a Sawzall reciprocating saw from the shop, we set about modifying the CONEX box. First, we removed the existing vent from the rear of the unit, then we expanded its hole using a metal cutting blade on the Sawzall. Though the steel is 1/4-inch thick, the reciprocating saw had little difficulty cutting though it. Once the vent hole was expanded, we cut another hole below it for the air conditioner. Bracing it with wood on the inside, we installed the A/C, making sure that the intakes were reaching the outside.
The vent hole we started with was larger than our active went louver, so we had to make a 2x2 wooden plate to cover the gaps. Once installed, and tested with a fan, the louvers popped right open like designed. Hooked up to a timer, the ventilation fans will come on from 10 pm to 8 am, automatically opening the louvers and venting the mouse room of any built up ammonia for 8 hours. The louvers will close when the fans turn off and the A/C runs, from 8 am to 10 pm.
![](/blog/uploads/CascadesFrog.jpg) Snowmelt is decreasing all over the United States, putting human endeavors and wildlife survival in jeopardy. One victim of climate change is the Cascades frog, a denizen of the mountains of the Pacifc Northwest known for his distinctive "chuckle."
From NPR:
In Washington's Olympic Mountains things are looking dryer than normal. On a recent day, Maureen Ryan is out looking for the wet spots. She's a researcher with the University of Washington and an expert on amphibians that live at high elevation.
These mountain trails are Ryan's lab, so to speak. She studies tiny snow-fed potholes of water, cupped in the folds of high mountain ranges in the Northwest, a perfect habitat for Cascades frogs. But as the global climate warms, that habitat is receding.
"What's happening to these frogs is in no way dissimilar to what's happening to us, even if we can't necessarily see it," Ryan says. "These frogs are reliant on snowmelt for the water they need to live."
People in the Pacific Northwest also rely on snowmelt to supply water for agriculture, industry, hydropower and drinking water.
Cascades frogs spend most of the year beneath dozens of feet of snow. But for a few short months in the summer, the frogs come to warm sunny ponds to feed and mate. While they're at it, they make what some describe as a "chuckling" sound.
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"Last year we had a good number of ponds ... [that] dried up before the tadpoles had metamorphosed, so they didn't survive there," she says.
Ryan worries that with less snowpack and hotter summers, more egg sacks and tadpoles will be stranded out of water. That could ultimately decimate the population, unless they can move into deeper alpine lakes that are more resilient to the warming climate.
Read the rest, and watch video, here.
This image of a pair of Golden Poison Frogs, uploaded by kingsnake.com user obeligz, is our herp photo of the day!
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Thursday, August 8 2013
![](/blog/uploads/SoPaRattlesnake.jpg) In yet more news about just why rattlesnakes are so vital to our ecology, the "magazine of the west," Cowboys and Indians, tries to explain why human fear and persecution of these animals are so misguided:
While it’s not especially natural to empathize with beady-eyed creatures that have been demonized throughout history and rounded up for mass killing, the idea that “the only good snake is a dead snake” is an erroneous one, says Steven J. Beaupre, Ph.D., a biology professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Snakes play an important role in sustaining the earth’s fragile balance of nature, and, although often unjustly persecuted, they offer humans many benefits. For example, according to the National Institutes of Health, snakes are the prized research animals for some scientists seeking better treatments for such disorders as high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer.
“Serious diseases lurk in nature, and healthy ecosystems provide protective effects. Rattlesnakes exactly fit the bill,” Beaupre says. “They’re critically important natural rodent-control agents and voracious small-animal predators that help keep rodent-born diseases like hantavirus and bubonic plague in check.”
Beaupre also says Arkansas timber rattlesnakes may actually help control Lyme disease by consuming large numbers of white-footed mice that carry the bacterial infection. “Plus, any rancher who stores grain knows how devastating rodents can be to his supply,” he notes.
In a world where snakes are villified even when they are harmless and doing nothing but trying to avoid humans, and rattlesnakes are abused and tortured in the name of "entertainment" at "rattlesnake round-ups," those are words herpers and animal advocates alike should take to heart.
Read the full, excellent story here.
Being more an amphibian person than a reptile person, on the first of my many trips to Amazonian Peru the anuran I wished most to see was Atelopus spumarius, the Amazon harlequin frog. When I told our Peruvian guides C-sar and Segundo this they had no idea what I was talking about for firstly, most of the tour clients who visited were snake enthusiasts and secondly, I had no idea what the local name for Atelopus was. So I came up with a name that I thought might help; Ranita Pintada, little painted frog. Despite walking through rainforest that seemed ideal I zeroed out. Wondering why, the finding of Atelopus became nearly an obsession.
The next trip down there I was better prepared. I brought a picture with me. Still neither Segundo nor C-sar recognized the frog, but now they knew what I was hoping for, and being astute guides, they headed to the back of the preserve. That day, along the long trail, they found not one but two of this coveted species. Couldn't be any better than that.
Continue reading "Second time's the charm when tracking the lowland harlequin "
This image of a Grandis Day Gecko, uploaded by kingsnake.com user uggleedog, is our herp photo of the day!
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Wednesday, August 7 2013
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Wed, August 7 2013 at 12:02
Is it safe or advisable to allow an exotic snake ie, ball python, red tail, carpet python etc. to free roam in the grass? Supervised of course, I see postings of photos of other peoples animals and wonder if parasites, or other adverse things might cause an undesirable effect. Thanks for responding and helping with my question.
![](http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/146456mamamouseandbabiescrsmall.jpg) Whether you're breeding 100 mice or 10,000, setting up your breeding facility correctly at the beginning can prevent a lot of problems and heartbreak down the road.
If you can think of a problem, it has happened to someone before, in many cases with disastrous consequences. No one wants to come home from vacation to find that your rodents are floating down the hallway and you've made the 6 o'clock news.
First, you need to determine your needs, as this will set the size of the breeder colony you need and the space and caging required. We've already determined that we will need to produce at least 8,000 mice in a 12-month period. A mouse's reproductive cycle is roughly 20 days, and then they are immediately ready to breed again. We will need at least 1000 litters in 12 months. Rounding up to 30 days between litters, we need to produce 84 litters per month to reach that number, or in plain numerical terms 84 producing females.
The number of males required will be set by the total number of mice each cage will support. For our cages we'll be using one male for every three females in each cage, so we will need at least 28 males. Larger tubs, such as bus tubs, usually support larger groupings of between six and eight mice. In a perfect world we would need 112 mice total to keep our colony fed for a year, along with caging, food and water, and other basics.
However...
Because mice are horrible at math, and nature is unpredictable...
We will base our first mouse colony on having 200 mice, in 50 cages. That will provide for a backup in case of slow production, cycling of new and retired breeders, and insurance against accidental losses. Hopefully it will provide a small backstock of over-production and allow for rapid expansion when the time comes.
Housing 200 mice is something you don't want to do in your house, or worse, your apartment. The risks of cross contamination are simply too great. In a best case scenario all animals, mice included, should be sited in a separate outbuilding, ideally one that can be decontaminated if not sterilized. While people have been using wooden buildings to breed mice for years, if you're starting from scratch there are other better options to consider.
Many breeders use steel sheds, others use custom metal buildings. We chose a 20-foot steel CONEX shipping container. With only a wooden floor that can be removed and replaced as needed, it's almost the perfect solution. Almost.
![Feeding on mice and other small mammals, an adult male timber rattlesnake consumes 2,500 to 4,500 of the black-legged ticks that carry Lyme disease each year.](/blog/uploads/Timber.jpg) Hate ticks? Hate Lyme disease? Then embrace the rattlesnake.
Researchers at the University of Maryland discovered that the Eastern timber rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, keeps the ticks that cause Lyme disease in check by eating the rodents they're attached to.
From the UMD release:
Human cases of Lyme disease, a bacterial illness that can cause serious neurological problems if left untreated, are on the rise. The disease is spread by black-legged ticks, which feed on infected mice and other small mammals. Foxes and other mammal predators help control the disease by keeping small mammal populations in check. The decline of these mammal predators may be a factor in Lyme disease's prevalence among humans.
Timber rattlers are also top predators in Eastern forests, and their numbers are also falling, so former University of Maryland graduate student Edward Kabay wanted to know whether the rattlers also play a role in controlling Lyme disease.
Kabay used published studies of timber rattlers' diets at four Eastern forest sites to estimate the number of small mammals the snakes consume, and matched that with information on the average number of ticks each small mammal carried. The results showed that each timber rattler removed 2,500-4,500 ticks from each site annually.
Because not every human bitten by an infected tick develops Lyme disease, the team did not estimate how many people are spared the disease because of the ecosystem service that timber rattlesnakes provide. But Kabay, who is now a science teacher at East Chapel Hill High School, and his research colleagues will talk about the human health implications of their work at 4:20 pm today (Aug. 6) in Room 1011 of the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Timber rattlesnakes are listed as endangered in six states and threatened in five more under the Endangered Species Act.
"Habitat loss, road kills, and people killing them out of fear are the big issues," said University of Maryland Associate Biology Prof. Karen Lips. "They are non-aggressive and rarely bite unless provoked or stepped upon."
Photo: Edward Kabay/UMD
This image of a Sand Boa, uploaded by kingsnake.com user Rick Staub, is our herp photo of the day!
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Tuesday, August 6 2013
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Tue, August 6 2013 at 21:12
Hey i have this bearded that i am selling for 50 bucks. I got her for s present and dont really want one. She needs to be tame because i never hold her. i take good care of her. I have her in a 20 gallon long she is about 7 inches so its good for her she has a 75 watt basking bulb and a uvb also has a hammock and she eats crickets and diffrent greens. I can ship it to you i live in Raleigh nc so if you are interested contact me by texting or calling me my phone number is 919-610-7054 or email me at animalallison@gmail.com thanks -allison
Because of some strange compulsion, I had decided that I wanted to photograph the very variable yellow rat snake from every Florida county in which it occurred. This quest would take me roughly over four-fifths of the peninsula, excluding only the northernmost and northwesternmost counties.
Just two nights earlier, with Mike Manfredi, I had started my search of Lake County. An afternoon shower had left the grasses and shrubs spangled with twinkling droplets but the pavement was now dry. Traffic was very light. The sun had dipped nearly to the western horizon but what had promised to be a beautiful sunset had been obscured by an almost solid cloud cover. Within minutes after sunset natricines (water, crayfish, and ribbon snakes) began crossing the road. But no rat snakes, yellow or otherwise, had made an appearance.
That night I was accompanied by Jake Scott. Climatic conditions were a bit different. Roadway and vegetation were both dry and rather than being obscured by a cloud cover the stars twinkled above. The moon was just peeping above the horizon. We made a couple of passes over the 10 mile stretch of road. Traffic had been light but now a car was quickly approaching us. I was watching the oncoming vehicle when Jake hollered "Snake! Yellow!"
Continue reading "An infatuation with yellow"
![](/blog/uploads/Turtle.jpg) Pet owners never like to leave their pets behind when they travel -- but only the obsessed few try to smuggle them onto an airplane disguised as a hamburger.
From the South China Morning Post News:
A man tried to smuggle his pet turtle through security in Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport by hiding it in a KFC hamburger.
The incident occurred on the morning of July 29, when a man, surnamed Li, was about to board China Southern Airlines flight 345 to Beijing, Guangzhou Daily reported. As Li passed through airport security, X-ray screening machines detected a few “odd protrusions” sticking out of a KFC burger that the man had packed in his bag.
Airport staff determined that the protrusions looked suspiciously like turtle limbs, and asked to inspect Li’s luggage.
“There’s no turtle in there, just a hamburger,” Li reportedly insisted. “There’s nothing special to see inside.”
Li finally acquiesced to an inspection after repeated requests from airport staff, who uncovered the pet turtle hidden inside the burger. When asked why he had devised this strange idea, Li said that he had only wanted to travel together with his “beloved” turtle.
Read the rest of the story here.
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This image of Painted Turtles sunning, uploaded by kingsnake.com user PH FasDog, is our herp photo of the day!
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Monday, August 5 2013
![](http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/112651Striped_and_Yellow_032-med.jpg) Details are few and changing, but the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is reporting that two children ages 5 and 7 are dead after a large python escaped its enclosure in the pet store below their apartment overnight in the town of Campbellton, New Brunswick.
According to the constable, it is thought the python entered the upstairs apartment through the ventilation system. "It's believed the two boys were strangled by the snake," she said. It is unknown at this time what type of snake is involved, which was initially reported as a boa constrictor.
For the latest info please check the CBC website or check back here.
(kingsnake.com gallery photo)
UPDATE: To hear an interview with the python owner who found the children, please visit globalnews.ca.
To view Google's real-time coverage of this news event, please click here.
![](/blog/uploads/cdc.JPG) With a projected 200 kingsnake cages to start with, securing the food source is probably the most important first step in my business plan. Before I even began to hunt for my breeder snakes, I wanted to have a primary and secondary food source in place.
Kingsnakes and milk snakes are ravenous feeders that will eat a variety of prey items, from rodents to reptiles, so that makes it relatively easy to find a food source. Availability, price and delivery can make this a costly proposition, however, especially on a commercial scale.
When I started as a hobbyist, finding a feeder mouse or two wasn't difficult, but finding enough to feed 20 or more animals on a regular basis was problematic. To feed a collection of size you invariably had to start your own mouse colony.
Today, a hobbyist or breeder can choose from a variety of sources, from individually-wrapped frozen feeders at the chain pet stores Petco and PetSmart, or bulk frozen feeders from a local pet shop. Frozen feeders are almost always available in bulk at the many reptile expos that occur across the country every year as well, supplied by the dozens of local breeders. And feeder mice are also available in uncounted places on the internet, from massive breeders like RodentPro, Mice Direct, and Big Cheese Rodents, to smaller local breeders advertising in kingsnake.com's classifieds. Frozen feeder mice are even available on Amazon.com!
If you want to save yourself space, convenience, labor, smell, and a variety of other issues, hazards, and problems, buying frozen feeder mice is really your best option.
If, on the other hand, you plan on starting and building a massive colony of breeder snakes as we are, the costs of buying frozen feeders can be daunting. With an estimated 200 colubrid snakes consuming a minimum of 1 mouse a week, 40 weeks a year, we will need to have on hand 8,000 feeder mice over a year's time. So in our case, our best option is to start our own mouse colony.
This image of a Black Mangrove Snake, uploaded by kingsnake.com user ptahtoo, is our herp photo of the day!
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