NEW EXOTIC PETS IN MY LOCAL STORE

Well I am a bit overdue uploading some of these videos and thought I had better upload a few.

We have a court case going on three years now to do with corruption and we have won and its coming to its end now and I have been asked to go away for awhile, so thought I had better get these uploaded.

There are a few very nice things in the store including Kakharikis (Parakeet), Barbel (fish), Jellyfish, Fire Salamanders, Parrot Cichlids and Nimbochromis venustus (mouthbreeding colourful blue and yellow Cichlid (fish) from Lake Malawi) some new Godfish and Fantails and some Paradise Fish.

MILK FROGS - PHRYNOHYAS RESINIFLICTRIX - JULY 2014

Well here is an update on the young Milk Frogs which have doubled in size, did this badly and will redo as I should have thrown crickets in there as all four of them will then appear in minutes, if no seconds.

NEW HATCHLINGS OF JAGUAR CARPET PYTHONS

Well I said they laid eggs and the eggs have done well.

Yesterday the first hatchling emerged from its egg and today several more appeared! Very cool looking Jaguar Carpet Pythons and someone I know is already having kittens about having some already!! Lol!

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PLATINUM TIGER RETICULATED PYTHON

And now for something COMPLETELY different ... 

 ... and BIG! But not that big ... YET!

This is a particularly nice colour form, that I do not normally like, of a Reticulated Python. This is called a Platinum Tiger and is over ten feet long and a little under half it full length and likely a third its potential length.

Notoroius for having plenty a tale for their eating people there are a lot of these and some do not get big enough to scoff a human! Lol! From a young boy there was a tale of a poor Chinese fourteen year old that had gone missing and then they found this huge reticulated python ... hmm story went it was either in a shed or under a house. Maybe under the shed?!

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SPOTTED TERRAPIN - Clemmys guttata (PICS & VIDEO)

Hmm well its about time I got off to a start with many of my blogs and tonight three different ones get a good start!

Also there are enough pictures and videos to keep me going for days, hmm even weeks!

So here up then is a Spotted Terrapin and one of a pair that have laid one lot of eggs thus far, TWO. Now these are one of my favourite reptiles and certainly one of my top Terrapins which only consists of a handful ...

THE SPOTTED TURTLE (CLEMMYS GUTTATA) VIDEO

Another one of my favoruites for not only their fantastic colour which in the world of Terrapins, no not really Turtles as they do not possess bloody flippers, is unrivalled but also their diminutive adult size!!

This species, I have realised is quite odd as they are present with Mata Matas, is one of only three species of Terrapins I can think of I would willingly keep! The other being the Diamondback Terrapin.

These are fully grown and about 4 inches and have mated since this video was shot and also laid eggs!!

the latin GUTTATA means spotted. Oddly a favourite toad species of mine is called guttata, sometimes you get guttatus, which oddly has no spots?! Lol! I think the scientist was on some mind altering drug when he named it?! Lol!

Oh and do not ask as they are not for sale!

THE MATA MATA TURTLE (CHELUS FIMBRIATA) VIDEO

I have some pics to follow up and these have been sitting around for awhile now.

Apologies for the quality but was only done on my Moto G phone and I will get some filmed using my Sony Cybershot in the next few days with a little luck?!

These guys are fantastic and an old favourite of mine. Kids would love them because they look so alien and they also look like wood!

These are youngsters and they get big but not overly huge, perhaps a female Red Eared Terrapin size? Maybe a little smaller been awhile since I saw a big one. Been awhile since I have seen one at all in fact!

Yes they are for sale and yes in my friends sop but be warned they are not exactly cheap, yet I still feel that they are cheap! Maybe a year from now I might be in a new place with a big setup for some of these of my own design?! Maybe?!