In the past, I've had large snapping turtles living in my little catch-all pond, on my property. Haven't seen them in the past few years though. We still have red ears though.
Supposedly, the captive bred pdf are not highly toxic due to not having the right food source to develope the proper toxic cocktail. Not sure if that's ever been actually proven though. So, yeah, definitely extra care.
It saddens me that for unknown reasons, certain amphibian populations are...
Frogs are one of my favorite critters!
When my wife and I were dating, I kept a vivarium with 3 green tree frogs(Hyla cinerea). When I first got them, they were pretty small, and I had learn to breed fruit flies. Then as they got bigger, I had learned to breed crickets.
I had always wanted to...