DEALS ON VIVARIUMS AT PETZOTIC IN ENFIELD

As these can be had for a good deal on set-ups and a place I normally hang out and who have helped me out on occasion I thought I would post up a few photos of some stock he just had in.

The store is called Petzotic and can be found at 176 Baker Street in Enfield about 50 yards north of the Jolly Butcher Public House and not far from the Shogun Martial Arts Academy that teaches Mixed Martial Arts.

He has managed to acquire some Vivariums, Aquariums and various stands for different sizes and what with Christmas upon us and many teenagers wanting their first lizard or possible snake I thought I would do everyone a little favour by adding some pictures on here...

With it being Christmas they have a few Holly Rings or two, Chaplets and other things with some bunches of flowers and as you can see below have a few Goldfish too.

He is also the chap with the Blue Tongued Skinks in around 10 weeks the Axolotls he has bred, Ambystoma mexicana, will be ready to sell too. I will put pictures up of all the parents in the coming weeks.

The Mexican Kingsnake, Lampropeltis annulata, is still there, rather surprisingly, and those odd colour Californian Kingsnakes. There are tropical fish too and some nice large Angel Fish along with some small ones in with a few Parrot Cichlids of different colours.

4 foot viv. Pictures are of ones that are NOT sold, lol.

Four more of various sizes, there was a nice redwood one somewhere?!

They do a fair bit of rodent stuff and pushed for space hence the bags of hay! HEY?!

This one has shelves in and I myself would be tempted to have a cascading river/waterfall like feature running from right to left and made out of inverted and curved cork?!

Nice tall one for arboreal species.

All glass viv 2 foot.

Metal lid with this one with sliding glass middle section, all black.

If you want to buy the hexagon stands be damned quick as these will be made into cages over the next week.

Couple of big black vivs and 3 ft light pine type colour or teak.

3 More Vivs with decor

AB, CD GOLDFISH? MNO GOLDFISH! O S A R C D B D iiiiiis?!

Some small vivs inside a 3 footer being made up in next few days.

Top one has a nice false ceiling and door handle to get in to lights and for placing food in easily like insects.

Low 4 footer, good for couple tortoises or ground dwelling snakes or lizard colony.

Neon Corydoras

Was not listed with a name and I cannot recall them but think they hail from Peru?!

Yemens Chameleon Male

Nice these but sizeable when adult, well the males are anywhooo, lol.

Jackson's Chameleons - Chameleo jacksonii

Spotted these today while out, not seen often enough and an old favourite of mine.

Love Jackson's Chameleons, Chameleo jacksonii, but high humidity needed especially for young chameleons where it is imperative!

These are a breeding pair, was not for sale before you think of asking?! LMAO!

Hmm might go back in future see if he has bred them and get him to earmark me some youngsters?!

Jackson's Chameleon Male

Jackson's Chameleon Female

Neotenic Alpine Newt Messotriton alpestris

A life long favourite, though not in this odd and rare form, is the Alpine Newt.

This one, like the Axolotl, stays in larval form and keeps the gills and this particular indivudual escaped and gre to adulthood in my pond many years ago, though technically it was my grandmothers pond, despite the fact I built it?!

LMAO!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89426160@N05/8216814903/

Marbled Newt - Triturus marmoratus

Another beauty and comes in different forms, different sizes and even different amounts as well as shades of green, around 5 types I have seen over the years...

The Marbled Newt ... Triturus marmoratus.

Closely related to the British Crested Newts

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89426160@N05/8217902948/

Salamandra salamandra gallaica

From Western Spain and most of Portugal is Salamandra salamandra gallaica.

These have a lot of wine red colours, washed out yellow and even lichen like green.

Some individuals can be quite stunning!

Until Picasa decides to work properly and Blogger decides to work properly I have no choice but to use only links to FLICKR?! NUMB-NUTS!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89426160@N05/8216826699/

Salamandra salamandra gigliolii

Well here is something I previously owned...

The Italian Fire Salamander from Calabria in Southern Italy

Salamandra salamandra gigliolii and better to keep these outside if you are fortunate enough to find any... inside you would need a fan and some fresh outside air being blown and.

A bit fussy about how they are kept and can acquire skin conditions that if their housings are not remedied they will eventually die.

If you see black marks appear inside the Orange colouring then place them in open container outside but not in sunlight in summer obviously, somewhere very shaded.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/89426160@N05/8217908658/

Lampropeltis annulata - Mexican Kingsnake

And now for something completely ... interesting!

An old favourite of mine this one...

The Mexican King Snake that is not a Milk Snake...technically?!

Oops wont upload photo and refuses to see the CORRECT LINK?!?! GRRR

Be back to add this one!!

Right! Sorry but the Google Masters are obviously inept!

I have run out of space on here for pictures?!?!

Blooger REFUSES point blank to see images from a FLICKR URL and as for PICASA ... well that is refusing to upload an album or individual pictures so presently I am stuck between a rock and a hard place.

SORRY GOOGLE BUT YOUR SOFTWARE AND INTERFACES ARE MORE HASSLE THEN THEY ARE WORTH!!!

So here is a link to Flickr and Picasa can go fly a kite!


http://www.flickr.com/photos/89426160@N05/8216637605/

CALIFORNIAN KINGSNAKES - Canary and Caramel?!

As many a Californian Kingsnake as I have seen over the years they are one of those rare things I always have a soft spot got.

I also am not into the albino nor colour forms being produced in so many species of snakes ... BUT ... I must say that while some colours produced are hardly worth it there is the small amount that are quite striking.

This, it turns out, only applies to ONE of the two Californian Kingsnakes in the picture below and this is a real surprise to me as for all the Callies I have seen I have never seen one with the dark colours as light and caramel like as the one in the upper portion of this photo!

Also in the picture, as you can or will see, is a very yellow form that was very pretty to look at and both these snakes were VERY adult size! Not young adults in other words!

Cannot remember the latin other then the genus of Triangulum or at least it was. Probably something really stupid that I cannot remember it like californiense. Remembering guttulatus, or gutattus (which does mean spotted), but think that was a Florida or Speckled or maybe another animal entirely?!

MY SQUIDOO LENS

http://www.squidoo.com/reptiles-amphibians-fish

BETTER RED OSCAR PHOTOS

RED OSCAR

BETTER PICTURES RAT ALBINO KING SNAKES

Much better pictures, thanks Nikon, of the Slowinski Rat Snale and an Albino Californian Kingsnake.

VIDEO: RED EYED TREE FROG LARVAE

A couple of videos of the Red Eyed Tree Frog larvae...

No the big pump is NOT on as it is always placed INSIDE another container, an upturned plastic planting trough with a hole cut out for the outlet pipe.

Rhacophorus exacophygus

After three deaths for a Chinese meal, when I WARNED the idiot, a male was found.

After being in pretty bad shape I actually said nothing would come from this pairing as she had not recovered completely despite my knowledge of nursing things back to health...

...so she shocked even me when these two constructed a foam nest between two Spathaphyllum (Peace Lily) leaves and they actually hatched?!

I fell out with the idiot owner who stated it was rocket science and someone I met years ago apparently bred them over the phone from Manchester. That would be one Andy Gray at Manchester University and who admittedly only knows and is into Phyllomedusine frogs, i.e NOT FLYING FROGS!! lmao.

I think I have a picture around somewhere of the foam nest and the newly hatched larvae. Will post up on this blog when I find them, IF I find them?!

Rhacophorus koai (or similar) Flying Frog

After killing three of these by leaving them in a cricket tub and sodding off for a Chinese instead of picking me up I was trying to find a male for this female and had long since wanted to breed this genus...

There was also Rhacophorus exocophygus which is in another post and the same fated affected them but a male was able to be found. (see next POST to what happened)

RED EYED TREE FROGS BEING BRED (AGALYCHNIS CALLIDRYAS)

The colony of Red Eyed Tree frogs I produced for .. hmm an ungrateful friend in his kitchen!

But do not worry, it is not rocket science (he states) and to be honest it is not, well not for me. he has since sold all the babies and I hear most of not all the adults of two generations, over 40 in all.

All these were from two pairs and there are 500 larvae in the pictures, I kid you not but that time I new the second generation were ready and wanted to do it on a large scale, and I did.

Second generation Red Eyed Tree Frogs

After four lots of eggs stuck to glass in breeding chamber of my design, now being furiously copied, cheers so-called mates, lol, I found two more batches and used wire to tie them to a roof of a small pan pal lid above rain water. ERR NOT RO WATER?!?!

Second Generation. Probably found in  Crews Hill store about now!

Some younger ones.

Metamorphlings of a third generation.

Third generation froglets.

500 Red Eyed Tree Frog Larva

500 Red Eyed Tree Frog Larva

500 Red Eyed Tree Frog Larva

500 Red Eyed Tree Frog Larva

Full size larva from previous spawning