Draco 57 - Snakes: Colour and drawing breeding

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

Reptilia 55 - Colour breedingSaharaAga toadFlorida soft-shelled turtleContents: 2 EDITORIAL 3 MAGAZINE 11 DATES 14 WESTERN HERP PERSPECTIVESTerrarium animals suitable for investmentFrom B. Love 16 PHOTO REPORTAGEColour and pattern breeding in the terrarium hobbyBy M. Hallmen 23 REPORTAGECrash course in crossbreeding geneticsBy M. Hallmen 33 REPORTAGEThe king's new clothesNew colour and pattern variations in the royal python(Python regius)By T. Kölpin 42 OPINIONRebuttal: On the sense and nonsense of "colour breeding"From H. Schneider 44 TRAVELChott el Djerid From U. Schlüter 51 PORTRAIT AND POSTERChondrodactylus anguliferBy M. Barts 56 REPORTAGEBufo marinus – on the fatal consequences of faunal distortionFrom H.-G. Horn 60 KEEPING AND BREEDINGThe European half-fingered geckoHemidactylus turcicusBy M. C. Haupt 63 HERPETOFAUNAThe black desert cobra - Ecological and behavioural biology Observations on Walterinnesia aegyptiaBy H. Esterbauer 68 HERPETOFAUNAThe Florida soft-shelled turtle (Apalone ferox)and the benefits of knowing scientific namesBy S. Barone 73 REPORTAGEHealing with snake venomsSnake venom as pain therapy for disc problemsBy W. Schäberle 76 REPORTAGESeven decades a friend of reptiles - once upon a timeFrom W. Rohdich 86 CLASSIFIED ADS 91 RAT & TAT 94 LIBRARY 104 BRUTKASTENBreakfast televisionFrom H. Werning

Reptilia 58 - Crustacean lizards Bush crocodileAgate snailsPlains snake Contents: 2 EDITORIAL 4 MAGAZINE 8 DATES 12 REPORTAGEExperience with keeping and breedingof dinos in the terrariumBy D. Schmidtwith a review by H. Werning 16 WESTERN HERP PERSPECTIVESThe Madagascan turtle crisisBy B. Love 18 PHOTO REPORTAGECrustacean lizards – the genus HelodermaBy T. Wilms 26 KEEPING AND BREEDINGThe successful and continuouskeeping and breeding of the scorpion-crustacean lizard Heloderma horridumexasperatumBy M. Reisinger 36 HERPETOFAUNAThe Guatemalan scorpion crustacean lizard, Heloderma horridum charlesbogertiCampbell & Vannini, 1998By L. S. Meléndez Garcia 39 SPECIES CONSERVATIONPoisonous giants facing extinction?REPTILIA project for the protection of theGuatemalan scorpion crustacean lizardBy K. Kunz 44 REPORTAGEHunting anacondas with sonar and guillotineBy L. Dirksen 51 PORTRAIT AND POSTERBufo brongersmaiBy U. Schlüter 55 KEEPING AND BREEDINGThe bush crocodile – secret beauty in theterrariumBy M. Evers 63 KEEPING AND BREEDINGKeeping and breeding of the ChineseDione snake (Elaphe dione)By M. Diekmann & A. Weyers 72 KEEPING AND BREEDING Agate snails in the terrariumBy K. Wandtke 81 REPTILIA ON THE ROAD30 years Reptile Zoo HappBy D. Schmidt 88 CLASSIFIED ADS 93 RAT & TAT 94 LIBRARY 104 INCUBATORProtocol of a failed attempt at acautious approach, at first sight based on mutualsympathy and intersexualattraction, during a jubilantcelebrationBy H. Werning

Reptilia 91 - Mexican tortoises Crocodile-tailed crested lizardMeasurement and control technologyPacific triangle snake Contents:Mexico is a dream country for all those interested in turtles, as this country is home to more different species of land, water, swamp and sea turtles than almost any other, and many of them are highly sought after in the terrarium hobby!In his splendidly illustrated photo story, Javier Valverde offers you an overview of the exciting and fascinating tortoise fauna of Mexico.Enric Pàmies and Armando Garza report in detail on the way of life, keeping and breeding of the Texas gopher tortoise (Gopherus berlandieri), Nicolas Pellegrin introduces you to the care and reproduction of the cross-breasted tortoise Staurotypus salvinii and reports on the way of life of this species in the wild. SPECIALNow also in Thuringia and Hamburg: "And daily greets the dangerous animal" Axel Kwet DATES WESTERN HERP PERSPECTIVESRattlesnake paradiseBill Love PHOTOSTORYThe turtles of MexicoJ. Valverde Keeping and breedingGopherus berlandieri – Terrarium care and breeding of the Texas gopher tortoiseE. Pàmies & A. Garza CultureMyths, legends and facts about Mexican tortoisesF. Cupul Keeping and breedingCare and breeding of the Salvini’s box turtle, Staurotypus salvinii N. Pellegrin JourneyA visit to the crocodile-tailed lizardM. Zollweg PORTRAIT AND POSTERTrioceros johnstoni J. M. Dehling KEEPING AND BREEDINGKeeping and breeding the Pacific triangle snake, Lampropeltis triangulum oligozona T. Schmidt HERPETOFAUNARainy season at the all-weather zoo. Keeping and breeding of settler agamasK. Theobald & J. Scholdei NUTRITIONHigh-quality nutrition for invertebrates and terrarium inhabitants – Part 1 R. Lautensack & R. Hübers TERRARIUM PRACTICEMeasuring method for monitoring the terrarium climateM. Uhlhaas & P. Pohlscheid REPTORTAGEWith student interns at the Iguana Station on Utila Island, Honduras Part 2: Valuable experiences and ongoing problemsM. Hallmen LIBRARYSUBSCRIPTION & SERVICEALSO NEAR YOUPREVIEW BRUTKASTENRattlesnakes and Mexicans Part 2  H. Werning

Draco 13 - terrapins Contents: 2 Editorial 4 terrapinsFritz Jürgen Obst 19 The European pond turtle Emys orbicularis (LINNAEUS, 1759) – the ideal turtle for the garden pondMatthias Mähn 25 Glass fibre reinforced Plastic (GRP) – a perfect material for the construction of ponds for the Outdoor keeping of aquatic turtlesAlfred Langer 32 Experiences in keeping and breeding the marsh turtle Glyptemys muhlenbergii SCHOEPFF (1801)Helgard and Klaus Lambertz 37 The spiny turtles of the genus Cyclemys BELL, 1834Maik Shields 42 Care and breeding of the three-keeled pond turtle Mauremys muticaUlrich Hennen 46 Notes on the keeping and breeding of the Spiny-backed Tortoise (Geoemyda spengleri GMELIN 1789) Irmtraud Jasser-Häger & Hans-Dieter Philippen 53Construction of a facility for keeping large aquatic turtles at Landau ZooPeter Buchert & Jens-Ove Heckel 59 On the keeping, care and breeding of the three-toed box turtle – Terrapene carolina triunguis (AGASSIZ, 1857) – up to the F2 generationBeate Löhr &Thomas Wilms 66 Notes on the keeping and breeding of the Japanese pond turtle Mauremys japonica (TEMMINCK & SCHLEGEL, 1835)Herbert Becker 73 Ornate turtles from North America Andreas S. Hennig 81 Book box 87 Magazine

Draco 56 - Terrarium equipmentContents:EditorialTerrarium designPatrick SchöneckerSeven steps to a self-built back wallDiana & Oliver FinkA piece of North American desert in your living room: building and designing a terrarium for collared iguanasJana BuchwaldA near-natural terrarium for the carpet pythonDaniel Renner Redesign of a terrarium for Lampropeltis alternaMalte Hornig Buyable and good: cork backgrounds and other furnishings from specialised retailers and their use in terrariumsDiana & Oliver FinkConstruction of a polystyrene terrarium system for the animal-friendly keeping, breeding and rearing of lizardsHans Esterbauer Lizards and succulents in the winter garden terrariumBeat Akeret

NTV - Spiny lizards - A book for all lizard fans! 143 pages 141 colour photos 8 colour drawings Paperback Heiko Werning The beautiful and agile spiny lizards are rightly among the most popular lizards kept in terrariums. In this book, Heiko Werning presents for the first time everything worth knowing about this genus in a practical and first-hand manner: Systematics and identification features Distribution, habitat and biotope types Exciting biological details, social behaviour and reproductive strategies that Terrarium keeping: all the information you need, from setting up the terrarium and the technical requirements to species-appropriate feeding, reproduction of the lively lizards and rearing the charming young animals Detailed portraits of all species for the terrarium Presentation of all species and subspecies of the genus Sceloporus Brilliant colour photos throughout The absolute must for every lizard fan!

Terraria 64 - Croatia Contents: Cover story: Croatia – herpetological pearl on the Adriatic Sea Croatia from Istria to Dubrovnik: The northern Balkan peninsula is famous for its wild beauty and yet is only a few hours' drive from Germany. We travel to the Adriatic coast with its rugged islands and the mountains of the Dinaric Karst. There we encounter a diverse herpetofauna, which for Croatia comprises a total of 20 amphibian and 39 reptile species and is perfectly adapted to the often harsh habitat conditions. Also in TERRARIA/elaphe 2/2017: Human fish: Stories about the European olm Keeping large ornate tortoises List of newly described amphibian species 2016 and much more Territorial HerpetoramaFaster than the eye allows – Record-breaking snake bites/Leaf creepers: Prehistoric creatures in Florida/Cultural followers: Large lizards on Tenerife/Thorn devil: Colourful tree toads Cover storyWonderful natural heritage. The herpetofauna of CroatiaMartin Dieckmann The Kvarner Bay. An interface between the ecosystems of EuropeMartin Dieckmann The Lacertids of CroatiaMartin Dieckmann On the trail of Winnetou. Croatia's wild westMartin Dieckmann PanoramaHuman fish and stories about the cave olm in the HarzWolf-Rüdiger Grosse, Anne Ipsen & Friedhart Knolle ResearchNew species. List of amphibians newly described in 2016Axel Kwet Salamandra TerraristicsAn alternative way to keep large ornate tortoisesSebastian Nickl Nature and species conservationField notesPartial leucism in the North American bullfrogMichael Waitzmann Artful toad deathAxel Kwet TERRARINO – The children's pageCommon toads. Love at second sightUte Nüsken Subscription & ServiceAlso in your areaPreview IncubatorMedia education Part 2Heiko Werning