Does anyone else own an exotic pet (reptiles, inverterbrate etc.)?

Here's another pic of Zazoo, I love how leos look like they're always grinning, lol:






Totally love axolotls ever since I first played Animal Crossing, lol

Yes! Animal Crossing was like my favourite game ever.

Awww she's really cute. How big is her viv out of curiosity? Looks quite big from the picture. Does yours spend a lot of time on the ground? My crestie is almost always sat on the branch underneath some leaves.

Her viv is 2ft by... actually I don't know height and width, lol. But it's 2ft long. I'd like a 3ft just so she had even more space to wander about, she likes to wander!

She spends almost all of her time on the ground, leos aren't arboreal like cresties as I'm sure you know already Her fave hide is the one in that pic, she loves it! I wish she'd go in the moist hide more as she has shedding problems with her toes and it'd help her!

Ah OK cool... I didn't actually know leopard geckos were terrestrial, I was a bit worried I'd have to buy a bigger tank when my crestie becomes fully grown because it would stop sitting on the branches, but the viv is quite tall so it should be fine

I'm sure your crestie will be fine! Do you feed yours livefood or stick to the crested gecko food you can get?

I bloody hate crickets with a passion, and bugs of any kind really, I just put up with them for Zazoo, lol.

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I've owned various things over the years, here are some random photos, I probably have more though..

Tarantulas


Other invertebrates



Lizards



Pygmy Hedgehog

There have been a lot of these black worms (are that actually worms or caterpillars, they had legs?) where I lived in Ghana, when my parents visited me my mother saw one and jumped around, thinking it was a snake

I'm actually surprised >90% of the exotic animals posted are either reptils or insects. No one keeping a wolf in his garden? No monkeys? Exotic birds?

Wow!!! Thanks for sharing, you have some really interesting creatures there, especially the inverts (the windscorpion made me shudder a bit though). Which would you say is your favourite tarantula? I think your Chaco golden knee (at least that's what it looks like) is beautiful, I can't wait until mine is fully grown.

Love this pic Mealworm tongue!

Great pics, are these all pets you own at the moment?

It's not actually a Chaco gold knee, if I posted a better photo the difference might be more obvious. I forget the common name of my tarantula but the scientific name is Acanthoscurria geniculata, so google that for pics. Basically the lighting was off in my photo, an A.genic has more whitish to cream strips, where as obviously a Chaco gold knee is golden, also A.genic are a little bigger. I would say mine has a leg span of 8".

Thanks, just took the meal worm pic today as I fed them, didn't think I'd caught him with his mouth open. I had no photos of my lizards and I thought I'd take some for this thread.

But nope not all of them....

The lizards I own now (1 S.sthenodactylus, 3 x A.carolinnensis)

The tarantulas, some have died, one I sold on as it was male. But I think I have some I didn't post photos of. I currently have 6 Tarantulas and the camel spider(under inverts)

Don't have the scorpion any more and I won't buy any new ones while I'm in my current relationship as my girlfriend really doesn't like them.

Don't have the stick insect(s), that was probably two years ago, which obviously is longer then their life span. Same with the praying mantis.

I do have the hedgehog..

Don't have the millipedes as I sold them on, though come the summer I might actually get a couple.

think that's about it...

I used to live abroad (Malawi) and kept a few reptiles (house snakes, agamas, skinks/geckos, and a chameleon or two). My friend and I would catch them and keep them for a few days before releasing them.
Looked after a python at school there too!

I've really wanted to get a snake since getting back, but with uni looming and the sheer cost of them in the UK, I've kept putting it off
Maybe if I rent a place in second year...


Basically: *watching this thread*

Hi guys, so I got a pet bearded dragon yesterday! They're such brilliant pets, definitely a lot more human than anything else I've had he's called Drake and he's 9 months old

Congrats on getting a beardie! He looks lovely, wish I had the room for one!

I have an african grey parrot but i think there quite common place now when pets are concerned.