The Desert Mind
If you’re here, you’re interested not just in better husbandry, but in Herpetoculture as an evolving industry and way of life. This is where I write about what I’m seeing in my animals, how my thinking changes over time, and how I believe this field needs to grow if it’s going to mature beyond trends and hype.
You’ll find working ideas, long-term patterns, and honest documentation of what holds up in the real world as well as unbiased and nonjudgmental consulting with your Herpetocultural endeavors.
A lot of things have been going on here since I returned from my herp trip to California! Most exciting to me was catching my Uromastyx Thomasi mating. These guys have been a dream of mine for a long tim...
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1080"] Young Male Baja Collared Lizard (Crotaphytus Vestigium) [/caption] I was fortunate enough to spend the second week of April in Southern California on...
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Woke up this morning and checked the incubator to find these two awesome little geckos running around. These Nephrurus Wheeleri Cinctus babies are the first hatchlings of that species for me, so I ...
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I came home yesterday evening to find my first ever Nephrurus Amyae had hatched! This species had been out of my price range for a long time, but I always wanted to keep and breed them. To open the incuba...
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It's amazing to see how much a lizard's color can change with temperature and/or mood. It seems that every lizard I have ever kept, from the smallest gecko to the largest iguana or monitor, have a range o...
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Here are a few shots of the two species of Knobtail geckos that I keep. Nephrurus Amyae and Nephrurus Wheeleri Cinctus. My geckos came from a few different sources, and I hope to get more in the future. T...
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