The East African sand boa
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Product information "The East African sand boa"
All about the East African Sand Boa
- 64 pages
- Format 14.5 x 21 cm
- Colour photos
- Author Steven Arth & Sandra Baus
Contents:
- Foreword
- Description of the species
- Relationship
- Behaviour and lifestyle
- Colour variations
- Legal regulations
- Considerations before acquisition
- Acquisition of the animals
- Transport and quarantine
- Socialisation
- Keeping in the terrarium
- Terrarium and terrarium design
- Terrarium technology and climate
- Keeping in the "rack"
- Care work
- Feeding
- Breeding
- Sexual differences and sexual maturity
- Mating trigger
- Pregnancy and birth of the young animals
- Housing, feeding and further rearing of the young animals
- Diseases
- Thanks
- Further information
- Literature used and further reading
Composition
Feeding recommendation
Technical details
Size information
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