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Exotic Pet Store XYZReptiles to Attend NARBC Reptile Show

Exotic Pet Store XYZReptiles to Attend NARBC Reptile Show

We are thrilled as an exotic pet store to be attending our third reptile show in 2015, which will be the NARBC Tinley Park Reptile Show in Illinois. The NARBC show groups have been going on for the last fifteen years in multiple states across ...

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Is the tiny sand boa the next big deal?

Is the tiny sand boa the next big deal?

When you mention boas to most people the image of a large heavy bodied constrictor basking on the forest floor usually comes to mind. There is however an entire sub family of boas that is found from Europe to Asia and North Africa that is ...

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Online Reptile Shop XReptiles to Attend Repticon

Online Reptile Shop XReptiles to Attend Repticon

Well friends we are gearing up for our second reptile show in 2015 and will be attending the Repticon reptile show located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for the first time in our companies history. We most recently attended the NRBE or National ...

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Are Tegus a Pet or Pest?

Are Tegus a Pet or Pest?

Like a multitude of other flora and fauna South American Black and White Tegus have come to call South Florida their home away from home. This stocky member of the Teiidae family can grow up to four feet in length and is speckled black and white ...

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Back to Basics with the Common Green Iguana Reptile Pet

Back to Basics with the Common Green Iguana Reptile Pet

There are very few people who own reptiles today that have not at one time or another kept a Green Iguana as a reptile pet. I can say that I had a tame five-foot Green Iguana roaming my house and sleeping behind the couch. He was paper-trained ...

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My Giant Pet Tortoises

My Giant Pet Tortoises

Out of the thousands of reptiles currently in my care the hands down favorites have got to be my 11-year-old pair of Aldabra Pet Tortoises. These two shy behemoths make me stop and think about where I was back in 2005 when I first got them and ...

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I’ll Have the Vanilla Ball Python Please

I’ll Have the Vanilla Ball Python Please

In the brief story of the ball python morph discovery and development no morph has been as understated and overlooked as the Vanilla Ball Python. This unassuming and rather plain base morph has through the years proven time and again that it can ...

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Great Expectations From the Reptile Show in Daytona Beach

Great Expectations From the Reptile Show in Daytona Beach

With the closing of another National Reptile Breeders Expo comes the slew of age-old questions that include “Will there be another reptile show in Daytona?” “What is happening to the reptile market?” and the good old “Did anyone make any money ...

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Daytona Reptile Show Pre Show Jitters and Anxiety Dreams

Daytona Reptile Show Pre Show Jitters and Anxiety Dreams

I have attended Reptile shows all around the world from the one-day event held in a motel ballroom in Ft Lauderdale to the three-day show held in a multi-million dollar convention center in Japan. I can tell you that nothing compares to the ...

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Banana Ball Python or Coral Glow Ball Python

It was over ten years ago but I remember it like it happened last week. I walked into a local reptile importer / wholesaler because I had heard that they had a rare albino looking ball python that had just come in from Africa. When I walked into ...

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