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Monitor Lizards as Pets: Dumeril Monitor Care and Natural History

[…]Monitors take a wide variety of prey animals, including grasshoppers, roaches, and other large insects, frogs, crabs, snails, bats, rodents and other small mammals, birds and their eggs, turtle eggs, and fish. Populations living in mangrove swamps seem to favor crabs and snails…in my experience, crabs and crayfish always elicit […]
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Emperor Scorpion Care: Five Things New Scorpion Owners Should Know

[…]information on breeding.   Scorpions Need Live Food While many captives learn to take canned insects from tongs (do not hand-feed!), live insects will form the vast majority of your scorpion’s diet. Many have been raised on crickets alone, but the best long term results will be achieved by providing […]
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Pet Newts: Spanish Ribbed Newt Care and Breeding

[…]Food and Reptomin Food Sticks can be used as the basis of the diet. Freeze-dried shrimp, “gelled insects”, and frozen fish foods (i.e. mosquito larvae) should be offered regularly.   A variety of live foods will help ensure a balanced diet. Blackworms, bloodworms, earthworms, guppies, small crickets and similar foods […]
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East African Black Mud Turtle Care: a Herpetologist’s Thoughts

[…]African Mud Turtles take a huge variety of foods, including fish, tadpoles, snails, carrion, insects, frogs and small snakes. Aquatic and terrestrial plants have been reported in the diets of some populations as well.   Pets should be offered a diet comprised largely of whole animals such as fish, earthworms, […]
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The 5 Worst Reptiles and Amphibians to Choose as Holiday Gifts

[…]size that renders Poison Frogs as difficult captives. They take live food only, and suitably-sized insects may be difficult to supply. Pinhead crickets and fruit flies, the most easily obtainable foods, are not an adequate long term diet. Springtails, flour beetle grubs, termites, leaf litter invertebrates, aphids, and other wild-caught […]
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New Species Found in 2014: Gymnastic Spiders and Other Invertebrates

[…]have contributed to the evolution of its unique escape style – other desert-adapted spiders and insects are able to roll away from danger.   Skeletons and Ghosts Southern California’s Santa Catalina Island is best known for sunny weather and beautiful ocean views. But a cave within one of its offshore […]
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The 5 Best Reptiles and Amphibians to Choose as Holiday Gifts

[…]almost all other frogs, accept non-living foods such as reptile and fish pellets (occasional insects are also appreciated). A simple filter and weekly partial water changes are essential to their health…provided that, African Clawed Frogs will prove to be among the hardiest of all amphibian pets.       Further […]
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Sailfin Dragon Care and Conservation: a Zookeeper’s Notes

[…]insects, should be offered regularly. In order to increase dietary variety, try canned grasshoppers, snails and silkworms. Cicadas, beetles, grasshoppers, moths and other wild-caught insects should be provided as well; please see the article linked below for further information on safely collecting insects.   Young Sailfin Dragons are primarily carnivorous, […]
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Thanksgiving at the Zoo: The Giant Appetites of Snakes, Frogs, and Moles

[…]including woodchucks, baby raccoons, flying squirrels and numerous native herps, birds, and insects, and simply could not keep up with the mole’s appetite. Reluctantly, I released the ravenous little beast – I’ve yet to come across another.   I also kept another small insectivore, the Short-tailed Shrew. Driven by a […]
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