Draco 55 - How to winter terrarium animals

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

Draco 63 - Amphibians of Europe Contents: Editorial Frogs and tailed amphibians in Europe – species diversity and biology              Axel Kwet & Benny TrappAmphibian of the Year 2016 – Morphological diversity in Salamandra salamandraAxel Kwet & Benny Trapp New amphibians in EuropeAxel Kwet & Benny Trapp The amphibian fauna of the Iberian PeninsulaAxel Kwet & Benny Trapp Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily: Amphibian diversity in the MediterraneanAxel Kwet & Benny Trapp List of the amphibians of Europe     Axel Kwet & Benny Trapp

Reptilia 50 - Giant tortoisesStilt-walker iguanaBushmasterCollar lizardContents: 2 REPTILIA for the 50th anniversary 12 BIG PRIZE PUZZLE 15 DATES 18 WESTERN HERP PERSPECTIVESThe king python pyramidby B. Love 20 PHOTO REPORTAGE Giant tortoisesby J. Vaverde 28 HERPETOFAUNAThe spur-thighed tortoises (Centrochelys sulcata)The tortoise that cries by B. Deveaux, SOPTOM 34 REPORTAGEThe El Niño phenomena of 1995/96 and 1997/98 and the giant tortoises (Chelonoidis nigra vandenburghi, Chelonia: Testudinidae) on the Alcedo volcano, Isabela, Galápagos by C. Márquez, H. Snell & H. Snell 38 REPORTAGEProtection of the Seychelles giant tortoises by J. Gerlach 42 TRAVELPulau Tioman - Pearl in the South China SeaPart 1 by W. Grossmann & F. Tillack 51 PORTRAIT AND POSTERPhrynohyas venulosaby H. Werning 56 KEEPING AND BREEDINGThe Central American Bushmaster (Lachesis stenophrys COPE, 1876) in the terrarium by A. Hohmeister 64 KEEPING AND BREEDINGThe high world of the stilt-walking iguanasor: My experiences with keeping Plica plicaby S. Flicke 68 KEEPING AND BREEDINGA real dinosaur in the terrarium: the Australian ruffed lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii)by T. Hörenberg 74 REPORTAGEThe survival of the tasty green iguana - New approaches to species and habitat conservation for Iguana iguana, with notes on Caiman crocodilus fuscusby K. Kunz 85 CLASSIFIED ADS 92 RAT & TAT 93 LIBRARY 104 GLOSSESIn search of Uracentron azureumPart 2by H. Werning

Ulmer Box Turtles in the Terrarium Box turtles are among the most popular reptiles of all. This book is designed to help you keep, care for and even breed your tortoises properly. From the contents:- Natural history- Diseases- Keeping- purchase- Nutrition- Reproduction

Draco 38 - Toads Content:Toads are mysterious, highly interesting animals with a great variety of life strategies. Their observation in the wild is a highlight for everyone interested in nature, and their keeping and reproduction in their own terrarium is very worth the effort - because on the one hand the apparently existing demand for the animals from offspring can be satisfied, but on the other hand it is simply a lot of fun to work successfully with these animals. Anyone who has ever had a few hundred bright-eyed miniature toads hopping around in his breeding tank and raised some of them up to sexual maturity knows what we are talking about. Because toads are really ideal terrarium animals. Many of them are very attractive at first or at least at second glance, do not have too high demands on care and turn out to be attentive and - of course - greedy contemporaries who like to "shoot" a delicacy out of the keeper's hand.For a long time now, we have wanted to introduce you to toads in more detail, tell you about their biology, but also and above all about successful breeding attempts - with this issue of DRACO, we are putting this wish into practice. The pictures also show that, contrary to popular opinion, true optical jewels can be found among toads. We hope to be able to inspire you for these wonderful amphibians!2 Editorial4 GoldenEyeToads, unrecognisedsurvival artistKriton Kunz26 Bufo torrenticola keeping and offspring,the Japanese rapids toadWolfgang & Katharina Heuberger30 The toads of the bufo-bufo complex of theCaucasus systematics, biology and postureA. A. Kidov34 Keeping and breeding of Anaxyrus speciosus,of the texas toad, as well as notes onAnaxyrus cognatus, the Prairie ToadAndrea Brenner42 Observation of an amelanistic toad(Bufo bufo) in Lower AustriaHans-Jürgen Luef46 European toadsAxel Kwet54 Keeping and offspring of the South AmericanSpiny Toad (Rhinella granulosa) in theZoo-Aquarium BerlinRobert Seuntjes58 The toads of MexicoFabio Cupul64 Incredible Colossi! Observationsto the Colorado ToadLeo Spinner68 Keeping and breeding the little toad(Ingerophrynus cf. parvus) abouttwo generationsKriton Kunz 77 Bookcase

Reptilia 66 - Rattlesnakes Peninsula tortoiseMadagascar terrariumFringed Fingers Contents: 2 EDITORIAL 3 MAGAZINE 14 DATES 16 WESTERN HERP PERSPECTIVESTurtles in the seaFrom B. Love 18 PHOTO REPORTAGERattlesnakes! The genus CrotalusBy S. Winchell 26 KEEPING AND REPRODUCTIONKeeping and breeding of the Western diamondback rattlesnakeBy F. J. Caballero Gasca & J. M. Rodriguez Gòmez 32 REPORTAGEPhoto hunt for mountain rattlesnakesin MexicoBy R. W. Bryson Jr. 38 KEEPING AND REPRODUCTIONTerrarium keeping of Mountain RattlesnakesBy D. Lazcano, R. D. J. Galvàn C. Garcia de la Pena G. Castaneda 42 TRAVELA stay in a remote part of the Brazilian Amazon region: Herpetological diaryBy P. Ulmer 51 PORTRAIT AND POSTERAgama lionotus lionotusBy M. Dobiey & P. Wagner 56 HERPETOFAUNAFrogsnake of the year 2007 The spadefoot toad (Pelobates fuscus)By A. Kwet & A. Nöllert 64 PRACTICEMadagascar in the living roomBy A. Hartig 68 HERPETOFAUNAFringed-fingered lizards (Acanthodactylus) in nature and in the terrariumPart 1: General information on ecology and behaviourBy U. Schlüter 77 HERPETOFAUNAKeeping and breeding of the Peninsula Ornate Tortoise Pseudemys peninsularis Carr, 1938By A. S. Hennig 87 FAQ - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSThe Indian Praying MantisBy K. Kunz 92 LIBRARY 104 BRUTKASTEN The Silence of the Nose Frogs, Part 1 From H. Werning

All about dwarf bearded dragons by Martin Dieckmann 64 pages Format: 14.8 x 21 cm 55 colour photos Paperback Author Martin Dieckmann Contents: Systematics and body structure  The fascinating biology: From the life of the dwarf bearded dragon All information on species-appropriate keeping: from suitable terrariums to equipment and technology to feeding Successful breeding: Mating stimulation, incubation of eggs and rearing of hatchlings Solutions to problems: How to avoid the most common mistakes in care and how to help sick animals Brilliant photos

Marginata 18 - Moorish Tortoises Philippine Pond TurtleGalapagos Tortoise BreedingTortoise Genetics II Contents: 2EDITORIAL 3READERS' LETTERS 4MAGAZINE 8DATES 10REPORTAGEComments on the Iberian TortoiseHans - Dieter Philippen 16REPORTAGEObservations on Testudo graeca iberaPetr Velensky & Natasha Velenská 26REPORTAGE Sympatric occurrence of two forms of Testudo graeca in ArmeniaMarine Arakelyan, James F. Parham, Oguz Türkozan & Felix Danielyan 31 PORTRAITMeier's Three-striped Box Turtle (Cuora cyclornata meieri Blanck, McCord & Le, 2006)Hans - Dieter Philippen 35 REPORTAGELive food Part 1Hans - Dieter Philippen 39BREEDING IN HUMAN CAREObservations on the Indochinese Box Turtle Part 2Arwin & Irmhild Hiller 44REPORTAGEFrom the pea experiment to the decoding of the human genome – Genetics yesterday and today Part 2Jens R. Poschadel & Martin Platz 52 REPORTAGEInformation on the growth of Siebenrockiella leytensisSabine Schoppe 58 REPORTAGEAn early Easter blessing of eggs Samuel Furrer 60BOOK TIP 61CLASSIFIEDS 62 REGIONAL GUIDE