Draco 58 - Chameleons

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 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

The yellow-cheeked tortoise is one of the most popular tortoises among young and old. 64 pages 14.8 x 21 cm numerous colour photos Author Andreas S. Hennig Contents: Hardly any other turtle species is as popular with young and old as the yellow-cheeked tortoise. And rightly so, as it is a beautifully coloured species with interesting behaviour that can also be recommended to beginners. Experienced tortoise keeper Andreas S. Hennig will give you lots of tips and tricks on how to keep and feed this attractive species correctly from the outset. Of course, you will also learn how to breed your turtles, hatch the eggs and raise the adorable young. Systematics and body structure The fascinating biology: From the life of the yellow-cheeked tortoise 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 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

Draco 34 - The global amphibian crisis Contents: 2 Editorial4 The global amphibian crisis by Axel Kwet & Stefan Lötters 18 Of zoos and frogs by Peter Dollinger 22 Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis – a small fungus causes big problems by Dr med vet Frank Mutschmann 28 The case of Atelopus – extinction at a high level by Stefan Lötters 31 The threat status of anurans in Peru by Edgar Lehr & Andreas Schlüter 37 Dangerous guests – The role of invasive species in global amphibian decline by Ivan Arinin 46 Climate change as a catalyst for the amphibian decline by Dennis Rödder & Wolfgang Böhme 52 Afrotropical amphibians: far from conservation breeding by Stefan Lötters 55 African anurans: unexplored and highly endangered? by Mark-Oliver Rödel 62 Amphibian decline in Canada and the USA by Andreas Nöllert 70 Project “Mountain Chicken” – the Antillean bullfrog (Leptodactylus fallax) by Gerardo Garcia 80 Chytrid in snouted frogs – news from the REPTILIA project by Mirco Solé, Johara Bourke & Heiko Werning 87 The contribution of Cologne Zoo to the Amphibian Ark: breeding projects, research and educational work for the conservation of amphibians by Thomas Ziegler & Theo Pagel

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!

All about the king climbing snake 64 pages Format: 14.8 x 21 cm numerous colour photos Author Andreas Gumprecht Contents: Terrarium keeper and snake expert Andreas Gumprecht has been keeping terrarium animals for 25 years now and would like to share his positive experiences with the care and breeding of the king climbing snake with the reader in this guide. br>Let yourself be impressed by perhaps the most imposing representative of the climbing snake complex. Systematics and body structure The fascinating biology: From the life of the king climbing snake 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 of the young Problem solving: How to avoid the most common mistakes in care and how to help sick animals Brilliant photos

Terraria 20 - Diverse poison dart frogs Pacific boasComb spiders of the genus Phoneutria Contents: Poison dart frogs are the most popular amphibians in terraristics, and they have been successfully kept and bred for decades. So you should know everything there is to know about the "jewels of the rainforest" by now? Far from it! These magnificent frogs always have tangible surprises and novelties in store for us, even with seemingly well-known species. In a spectacularly illustrated report, Frank Steinmann looks at the countless local forms of the golden tree frog, Dendrobates auratus, and reveals why many of the names circulating in terraristics for the colour forms are misleading. Ivonne Meuche has been researching strawberry frogs in Costa Rica for years and reports on the most interesting results that have not yet been scientifically published. And we also show photos of a beautiful, newly discovered and as yet undescribed dendrobatid, the Golden Supatá poison dart frog, which André Schreiber observed in Colombia.EditorialMagazine Snake systematics special: New systematics of South American Pit vipers Species status again for the Dark Tiger Python, subspecies status for the Sulawesi Dwarf Tiger Python Make five out of one – The new systematics of the chain snake complex Autumn TERRARISTIKA in Hamm Legal: Again: Right of retention of the animal The aga toad – or how to benefit from an aggressively invasive species On the distribution of Hemidactylus mabouia in Paraguay Test run addendum TERRAglobalThe frilled lizard: A miniature dinosaurKarl-Heinz SWITAKBack in the fieldMaik DOBIEYTITLE THEME: Diverse poison dart frogs"Further notes" on Dendrobates auratus – the variability of the golden tree frog in PanamaFrank STEINMANNIn the area of Ranitomeya dorisswansonaeAndré SCHREIBEROophaga pumilio – The strawberry frog in the spotlight of researchIvonne MEUCHE"Rana dorada de Supatá" – the Golden Supatá poison dart frog from ColombiaAndré SCHREIBERPacific boas in the terrarium – Candoia carinata and Candoia paulsoniRenè MEIERKORDThe Northern Pine Snake (Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus) in the wild and terrarium. Part 2Bernd SKUBOWIUSThe genus Phoneutria – keeping and breedingReinhard HÜBERS and Dirk REIMANNTRAVEL"Exo Terra" Expedition Tanzania 2008 Part 2: A new chameleon speciesRoland ZOBELNEW SPECIESNew monitor species discovered in IndonesiaAndré KOCHTwo new day geckos from MadagascarAxel KWETBrazilian angel frogAxel KWETAMONG RESEARCHERSHerpetological research in Central AmericaAndreas HERTZ and Sebastian LOTZKATEYE-CATCHERIf you love your lizards, you carry them on your hands. Exceptional successes with toad lizardsKriton KUNZNear youSubscription & ServicePreviewIncubatorThe "Rock Helga" – A Morocco adventure in two parts (Part 2)Mike ZAWADZKI