Providing both a basking area and a warm hide helps reptiles do what they do best, which is taking care of themselves and their needs when they have the resources to do so. Toad Ranch scored a rare perfect ‘5’ star review for their enclosures in ReptiFiles’ comprehensive review. Are they as good at building hides as they are enclosures? Continue Reading
Toad Ranch is a US-based luxury enclosure manufacturer. Their enclosures are made of a combination of PVC, HDPE, and aluminum mesh, and customization is their specialty. They display an impressive number of 5-star reviews on their website, but are they really that good? After all, an enclosure manufacturer can “talk the talk” all day, but it’s quite another thing to “walk the walk.” Continue Reading
It’s a little strange to be reviewing a reptile hide, since at first glance, a hide is a hide, right? But upon closer inspection there’s a lot of little things that can influence a purchase decision, and make or break the resulting experience with the product. This was my experience with the Kages hide box. Continue Reading
(Another guest post by Thomas Griffiths!) At this point you know that you can provide a UV lamp to help replicate those all-important UVB rays that animals get from the sun. And of course, your heat lamp replaces the heat from the sun. But that’s not the entire picture… Continue Reading
Recently Kages has come under new management, and they’re eager to make Kages the best PVC enclosures on the market by bringing a formerly stagnant design into the modern day. Do they have what it takes to earn 5 stars from ReptiFiles? There’s only one way to find out: Continue Reading
After their first enclosure earned a ReptiFiles Rating of just 2 stars, Toxirium revised their design and asked if I would give them a second chance. My answer was “Of course!” Let’s see if the new design is better than the last! Continue Reading
Reptiles are among the most vulnerable organisms to the impacts of habitat destruction, climate change, overexploitation, and invasive species introduction. With an alarming 21% of reptile species currently threatened, urgent conservation efforts are necessary to prevent further reptile biodiversity loss. Continue Reading
I chose Repti Zoo’s terrarium fan product for review because I believe that better enclosure ventilation is one of the next big steps in reptile husbandry. Plus, reptile-specific fan products are fairly rare, so I wanted to see if this would do a better job/have better features than the desktop and computer fans that have been used historically. What I’m hoping to see from the Repti Zoo Air Cool Fan Dehumidifier is… Continue Reading