Handbook of forage plants 2nd revised editionMarion Minch is not only a successful breeder of diverse tortoises for many years, but also an excellent connoisseur of native wild herbs. She founded and runs samenkiste.de, which is well known to many tortoise keepers and nature lovers. Her name is inextricably linked with reptile care and species-appropriate nutrition for tortoises. Her handbook of food plants summarises the most important native food plants for herbivorous and omnivorous reptiles. She not only considers tortoises, but also iguanas, spiny-tailed dragons and even chameleons. From the basics of plant biology to native wild herbs to suitable food plants for hardy tropical reptile species, this comprehensive work provides the basis for species-appropriate keeping. In the expanded and supplemented 2nd edition, the plant section is divided according to flower colour. This makes it even easier to identify wild herbs. The work has also been supplemented with a wealth of additional information and many pictures.
Geckos in the terrarium by Astrid FalkThe book offers a comprehensive introduction to geckos and their species-appropriate keeping in terrariums. It explains what you need to think about before buying a gecko and what preparations should be made. The book describes in detail how the terrarium is technically equipped and set up. The care of the animals, their special features and behaviour, their diet, reproduction and rearing of young animals are described, as well as diseases and husbandry problems with tried and tested suggestions for prevention and treatment. Individual gecko species that are particularly suitable for keeping and breeding in terrariums are portrayed in detail in the second part of the book.
Book Jumping Spiders -
Phidippus, Hyllus & Plexippus
A guide to keeping jumping spiders of the genera Phidippus, Hyllus & Plexippus. Who can resist the charm of jumping spiders? The childlike appearance of their expressive face simply leaves no one cold! In addition, their behavior is extremely exciting to observe, their colors are bright and their requirements for species-appropriate keeping are very easy to meet. No wonder these likeable jumpers are all the rage!
This volume in the "Species by Species" series describes in detail what to look out for when buying and keeping them, introduces the most commonly kept species and color forms and provides plenty of tips on how to keep them successfully - so you can be sure they will breed well!
Species by Species introduces you to the books in this series, which present the most popular terrarium animals. Each volume offers you detailed, practical care instructions and all the information you need to successfully breed your animals.
All important questions from the required tank size to terrarium set-up, technical equipment, species-appropriate nutrition and disease prevention are answered with numerous tricks and tips.
Experienced, long-standing breeders reveal how you can encourage the animals to reproduce and raise healthy young.
All this in full color, generously illustrated and attractively designed - just about your terrarium animal - species by species
Book "Grow your own live food" - The perfect guide for pet owners
Discover practical and detailed instructions on how you can easily breed food for your reptiles, birds, fish or other animals yourself in the book "Breeding live food yourself". With valuable tips on various food insects, their care and breeding, you can save money and ensure a species-appropriate diet for your pets.
Contents of the book:
Step-by-step instructions for breeding feeder insects
Information on the best types of food for reptiles, birds and fish
Care instructions and breeding conditions for various live food species
Tips for sustainable and cost-effective food production
Why breed your own live food?
Get healthy, fresh food for your animals
Save money and reduce dependence on pet shops
Promote the health and well-being of your animals with species-appropriate food
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced pet owner, this book provides you with everything you need to successfully breed live food yourself.
Marginata 69 - New Guinea tortoises – the genus ElseyaCover storyThe unrecognised beauties: New Guinea tortoises (Andreas S. Hennig)My experiences with Branderhorst's New Guinea tortoise, Elseya (Elseya) branderhorsti (Ouwens, 1914) (Andreas S. Hennig)Keeping and breeding of Rhodin's New Guinea tortoise, Elseya (Hanwarachelys) rhodini Thomson, Amepou, Anamiato & Georges, 2015 (Andreas S. Hennig)PortraitGeoemyda spengleri, Chinese serrated tortoise (Andreas S. Hennig)ReportageMacrochelys temminckii – Experiences and impressions with vulture tortoises part 2 (Reiner Praschag)KeepingAn alternative to year-round keeping of the Egyptian tortoise in the terrarium – my experiences with seasonal outdoor keeping of Testudo kleinmanni (Ricarda Schramm)EtymologySawbacks and living maps part 4: Graptemys gibbonsi, Pascagoula humpback tortoise (Holger Vetter)Classifieds & animal placement
The book explains everything about the care and keeping of small animals.
144 pages
163 photos
2 graphics
Format: 16.8 x 21.8 cm
2nd revised edition
Author Christian Ehrlich
Publisher NTV
Contents:
Away from the stuffy cage and towards modern and species-appropriate animal husbandry: many small mammals are best kept in a suitably equipped terrarium. This book presents the most suitable types of terrarium and provides a detailed and practical description of how to breed and care for the animals successfully.
Anatomy, lineage and systematics
Distribution, biotopes, adaptations
All information on species-appropriate keeping: from suitable terrariums to equipment and technology to feeding
Successful breeding: Mating stimulation and rearing of young animals
Taming small mammals
Topic free-range: This is how it is species-appropriate.
Solutions to problems: How to avoid the most common mistakes in care, and how to help sick animals: Keeping animals healthy
Huge species section with detailed portraits of 80 species of marsupials, predatory marsupials, true marsupials, xenarthrans, insectivores, bats, rodents and sengis
Brilliant photos
Many animal lovers no longer want to be satisfied with just the classic hamster in the equally classic hamster cage. If you want to keep and observe such exciting animals as hedgehogs, opossums, predatory marsupials, sugar gliders, armadillos, tenrecs, ground squirrels, squirrels, bats & co., this book is a must, because all of them and many more are best kept in a suitably equipped terrarium. Christian Ehrlich, editor of the specialist magazine RODENTIA, has now dealt with this topical subject in detail. The author is able to draw on his many years of experience in keeping and breeding small mammals from various related groups and shares his insights here in an easy-to-read but extremely expert manner. Ehrlich describes the biology of the animals, presents their specific husbandry requirements and gives plenty of tips on their successful care and breeding. The book offers detailed portraits of no less than 80 species of marsupials, predatory marsupials, true marsupials, xenarthrans, insectivores, bats, rodents and sengis. For all friends of very special animals and for all those who strive for species-appropriate animal husbandry, this book is an absolute must.
Reptilia 113 - RhacodactylusThe giants of New Caledonia
Arum familyRed spitting cobraMilos Cover story: Rhacodactylus, the giants of New Caledonia.
EditorialMAGAZINEDATES
Photo storyRhacodactylus – Diverse giants from New CaledoniaP. Schoenecker
Keeping and breedingDark giants in the terrarium: keeping and breeding Rhacodactylus leachianus , the local form from Mont KoghisP. Schoenecker
ReportageIn search of New Caledonian giant geckosC. Langner
Keeping and breedingThe local variants of Rhacodactylus leachianus in terrarium keeping Part 1: Grande TerreS. Cemelli
PlantsArum plants in the terrarium Part 1: Species diversity, biology and special featuresB. Akeret
Keeping and breedingThe jewel of venomous snake keeping. The red spitting cobra, Naja pallida, as a pet in the terrariumO. S. Rudolphi
ReportageQueensland's spiders and their venoms Part 2: The araneomorph spiders T. J. Hauke
ALSO NEAR YOUService
Animals of our homelandThe fire-bellied toadR. Leptien
WESTERN HERP PERSPECTIVESWalk the boardsB. Love
JourneyFeta cheese, sun and snakes. Welcome to Milos!A. Schmid
PREVIEW
BRUTKASTENChuckwalla anecdotes. Part 2H. Werning
All about the Tokeh by Wolfgang Grossmann
64 pages
Format: 14.8 x 21 cm
numerous colour photos
Paperback
Author Wolfgang Grossmann
Contents:
The size and strength of tokehs are impressive, as is the enormous defence capability of these geckos. Even after many years of care, specimens of both sexes do not completely shed their primitiveness and ferocity. Their sometimes very attractive colouring makes many other lizards pale in comparison.Tokehs are not beginner lizards, but present the keeper with challenges!In order to keep and breed them for many years, you need to fulfil a few but important basic requirements, which author Wolfgang Grossmann explains in detail and in an easy-to-understand manner in this volume of the "Species by Species" series.
Systematics and body structure
The fascinating biology: From the life of the Tokeh
All information on species-appropriate keeping: from suitable terrariums to equipment and technology to feeding
Successful breeding: Mating stimulation, incubation of the eggs and rearing the young
Solutions to problems: How to avoid the most common mistakes in care and how to help sick animals
Brilliant photos
Draco 35 - King SphytonsContents:Editorial 2The king python - a snake with many faces Thomas Kölpin 4Keeping, care and breeding of the royal python in the terrarium Melanie Hartwig 18Professional king python breeding and the development cycle of the follicles Stefan Broghammer 30Design and set-up options for king python terrariums using the example of a private enclosureRené Bonke 34Rack keeping: pros and consFrank Bick 39Selective colour breeding of king pythons using the example of of the "Maze" lineHans-Jörg Winner 43Colour variations of the king pythonThomas Kölpin 48The utilisation of snakes and the associated economic and ecological consequences - the example of the king python in West AfricaJohannes Penner, Christain A.S. Toudonou, Brice Sinsin & Mark-Oliver Rödel 64Ranching the king python Stefan Broghammer 69Common diseases of the royal python in terrarium practice Dr med. vet. Frank Mutschmann 74Book box 87
Terraria 48 - Herpeto holiday Balearic IslandsBlack MambaForest skinkContents:TerritorialHerpetoramaCover storyHerpeto holiday Balearic Islands. Sun, beach and lizards on Mallorca, Ibiza & Co.Mike ZawadzkiIbiza - Sun, beach and lizardsMike ZawadzkiFormentera - Beyond timeMike ZawadzkiMenorca - Blown by the windMike ZawadzkiCabrera - Spain's little GalápagosMike ZawadzkiMallorca - The unrecognised islandMike ZawadzkiPanoramaIn search of mountain vipers (Monitvipera xanthina) in north-eastern Greece – Part 2Michael Wirth"Just Remember that Death is not the End". Taxidermy of reptilesJörg PetzoldWilly Wolterstorff. The "father of the newt" was born 150 years agoWolfgang BischoffResearchAmong researchers"Harmless" snake on the road or the discovery of a new pit viper in the HimalayasGernot VogelNew speciesThe relict-like leaf toad or the discovery of a new frog speciesMirko SoléSalamandraTerraristicsKeeping and breeding the Madagascar forest skink Amphiglossus macorcercusJochen MeyerSubscription & ServiceObservations of the black mamba, Dendroaspis polylepis, in the terrariumLudwig Trutnau & Alfred WallnerNature and species conservationField notesGreek vipersHans PichlerGrass frogs in VilsalpseeAxel KwetEasy help for the amphibian of the year, the yellow-bellied toadAndreas OchsenbeinAlso in your neighbourhoodPreviewIncubator The boys in the swampRolf Leptien
Marginata 05 - Musk turtles>
Yellow-headed tortoiseIncubationWater box turtle
Contents:
2 EDITORIAL
3 READER LETTERS
4 MAGAZINE
7 DATES
10 PHOTO REPORTAGEThe North American musk turtles of the genus SternotherusHans - Dieter Philippen
13 REPORTAGEKeeping and breeding the Small Musk Turtle (Sternotherus minor AGASSIZ, 1857)Hubert Felsner
20 REPORTAGEThe Flat Musk Turtle (Sternotherus depressus TINKLE & WEBB, 1955)Reiner Praschag
31 PORTRAITMadagascan radiated tortoiseAstrochelys radiata (SHAW, 1802)Hans - Dieter Philippen
36 SCIENCETemperature-dependent sex fixation in marsh, water and land turtlesPart 2Claude Pieau & Mireille Dorizzi
42 REPORTOn an unusually light-coloured carapace of Indotestudo elegans BLYTH, 1854Wolfgang Grossmann
46 BREEDING IN HUMAN CAREKeeping and breeding the water box turtle (Terrapene coahuila (SCHMIDT & OWENS, 1944)Part 3Markus Baur and Irmtraud Jasser-Häger
54 BreedingThe rearing of hatchlings of different species of musk turtles Gerhard Schaffer
58 BOOK TIP
LINE ADVERTISEMENTS
62 REGIONAL GUIDE
64 AGATHA MARGINATA
Bugs No. 06 - Asian Mantids
African Harlequin CockroachRed Hainan crabThailandContents:The cover story of Bugs No. 6 is full of beauties, but they all have only three things on their minds: Eat, hide and reproduce. They are beautiful in their own right, but their perfect camouflage makes them hard to spot in their habitat - mantids from Asia! Find out new and interesting facts about species that live in mosses and lichens and read detailed breeding reports.Table of contents
EditorialFacetsDatesFlown in
Cover storyAsian mantids
Cover storySmall, colourful flower mantises
Cover storyDemanding Dwarfs
ReportageNative ‘tigers’ on a slimy trail
In the crosshairsBlood-red freshwater crab from China
FledgedIn search of scorpions in Morocco
Keeping & BreedingSuccessful breeding of a roller spider
CultureCuisine from Laos
ShowcaseThe State Zoological Collection, Munich
Kids CornerWhat’s crawling about in May?
Potter beeHandling tarantulas
Book scorpionAlso in your neighbourhoodService & ImprintPreview
MetamorphosesThe Very Hungry Caterpillar