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keep in mind that reptilian scales are not really that at all. They simply have skin with a scale-like texture - even snakes, which really DO look like they have overlapping scales. Instead, it's just a continuous skin that's in the shape of waves, he ends of these waves are thickened with...

My friend Pete had a method of sexing melleri with probes. It's on the melleridiscovery, but I don't think anyone else has had the balls to try it.

Well, there can be much learned form them in the wild. Just like we can learn from them in captivity. Also, one must really appreciate the complexities of evolution. Nothing is simply unnatural or not meant to be. Ok, there are a few things, but still... Animals being transplanted by other...

The one that climbs on top is usually a male. The one that gets fat and lays eggs is always a female. The only other, visual way you can be sure of sex is to watch them closely when they defacate. Males will sometimes (often, actually) every their hemipenes when defacatign, they look like...

strange thing is my old veiled (10+ years ago) used to sit in the bright sun all freaking day long on hot sumer days. I remember the little sucker was sitting at the top of his outdoor cage, in full bright colors, sideways to the sun - with the temperature of 101 degrees outside. He never...

I agree with that. While I do not really believe there is much that will be harmed (ecologically speaking) from their introduction ot Florida, it certainly does not look very good. It makes people in our hobby look like the kind of people that care nothing for the environment. It makes us...

The florida veileds may come from a small gene pool, but they are no threat to the hobby. Natural selection is doing it's work. Any animals that make it to adulthood have been filtered and checked and tested by a far more rigorous set of demands than most (if not all) breeders are willing to...

Overfeeding. Almost all cases of picky chameleons is due to them being overfed. I have not had a picky chameleon in a very long time. The only ones I've had in the past decade ever refuse food* were deremensis that were overfed and/or in a seasonal cycle. Once I got their temps and seasons...

http://market.kingsnake.com/detail.php?cat=52&de=688394 You would think CB T.j.j's would show brighter coloration.

Man that sucks. I have seen round eggs hatch, so definatly keep them! I think you may be very right about the temps. Basking is critical for gravid females. For melleri, it's often hard to get their temps cool enough and provide them with a good basking site. I had recently shut off the...

gravid females dying is very common. About two years before she died? Did she simply stop eating a few weeks ago? Was she still looking healthy when she died? I woudl very much like to know,a s I have worked with deremensis for a very long time. I have a lot of experience with their...

If mike gave her some dewormer, there would probably not be ay obvious worms in the digestive tract. Stress of importation combined with egg laying is pretty good an explaination. You get plenty that die soon after import, due to importation, and you get plenty that die soon after egg-laying...

top of his head looks burned too. Lights are too hot and/or too close most likely.

curing cancer is independant of dinosaur research. If somebody wants to study genetics by making chickens grow scutes, teeth and finghers, that's how they'll do it. It's not simply for the coolness factor - we learn about all of genetics when such experiments are done. Cancer is complex...

Though I have not seen it myself, I have read that coccidia can cause similar looking problems in the kidneys.

Why did you remove her from her hole? Females will almost always go off food for a few days when about to lay eggs. Forcing them to eat when their bodies don't want to might have bad side-affects. Try to leave her alone in her hole, getting those eggs out sooner means she'll be eating on...