We intend to carry hard to find products of great value and pricing. Having gone through the difficulties of locating many products here in Canada we intend to be your one-stop shopping source for these items. No more searching high and low online to various shops, many of which ask that a minimum quantity be purchased before placing an order!

A sneak peak at what’s to come, are open air screen mesh aluminum reptile cages great for chameleons and other arboreal lizards, ABS one mold snake cages, thermostats, reheostats, infrared temperature guns, drippers, 6′ long climbing vines and much more.

Since this is a great undertaking and wanting to offer you the best we only can, we hope you stay tuned and bare with us as we go through our growing pains. Testing phases have commenced on e-commerce platforms sufficient for our particular needs.

If you would like to suggest products that you’ve been looking for and can’t seem to locate … please feel free to email me using our contact form. Remember to state the product, perhaps a URL where you have seen it and any other details that will help us in making a decision to carry the item in our online store.

Just click the more button to see all of them.

Do you require hornworm or silkworm chow (food for these worms, as they need to eat to keep them alive for several weeks if ordering in larger quantities)? It is available in pre-cooked form which will keep in the freezer or in uncooked powder form too.

Maybe you are also looking for some live mosses? Such as Mood Moss, Reindeer Moss, Sheet Moss or Spanish Moss?

UPDATE: Hornworm (out of stock) Phoenix Worms (in stock)

Have you been searching your local pet stores within Trenton, Belleville and the Quinte West region in general and found that not only is the selection very limited but also quite expensive?

Search no more! We have all the above feeder insects available to you at price savings too … We are creating a new section with Nutrition Analysis, Pictures and Pricing under our Products section of this website (stay tuned).

Overnight deliveries ensure the freshest product possible on live insects and pick up or delivery to Belleville / Trenton areas can be aranged for a small fee.

While this new section is still being developed feel free to contact me, and I will discuss pricing and orders with you directly… Orders are being taken NOW!!

MORE INFO: Phoenix Wormsprovide high levels of natural lauric acid. Lauric acid is known for its excellent antimicrobial properties including potent activity against lipid coated viruses, clostridium and pathogenic protozoa including coccidia. Lauric acid is a medium chain saturated fatty acid found in Phoenix Worms as well as some vegetable oils and in dairy products. 53% of the fat in Phoenix Worms is beneficial lauric acid.

Stay fresh in their cup for weeks at room temperature or even longer if kept at an optimum temperature of 50º – 60º F and they do not need to be fed & make no noise!

Example of cost savings:

Live Feeder Comparison Chart

Long awaited our male and two unrelated females are arriving this weekend after a  long trip … for the pick up we are overnighting in a motel to make it easier on both us and them.

Stay tuned for further updates on how they settle in and adjust to their new home.

And hopefully in a year or so we will be able to offer some spectacular offspring!

In the meantime I know I will enjoy every minute of having them in our home, as all panthers have such unique personalities … some enjoy resting on certain plants, once accustomed they can’t wait to be fed and look for the pair of feeding tongs to enter their cage, the joy to see them lap up dripping water and catch their food is truly an awesome site to witness!

I also believe that at this time “Here Lizard Lizard” will be the second folks within Canada to offer the panther chameleons from the region of Sambava.

If you would like to learn more about Sambavas please see our previous post covering a Brief Description. Care sheets on the panther chameleons will be available within the next month, as we currently have our hands full doing many other things.

These are all youngsters, the ball pythons do not require any UV lighting just heat and 12 hours of daylight is suitable.

For full details on care for the ambilobe see our previous posts.

Tightrope Chameleon

Father & Son Moment

USB Chameleons

Pygmy Chameleons

Oops !

Now that would be my cat too
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Someone’s grumpy today !

The Leopard Gecko is a popular pet because of their ability to thrive in captivity, fairly ease of care, their docile dispositions and their openess to being handled by their owners (each has its own charming personality).

Leopard Geckos are also a fairly small lizard, with males being typically larger than females growing to approximately 9 inches in length. They have been known in captivity to live up to 20 years with some owners attesting to a lifespan of over 30 years! So when considering a Leopard Gecko as a pet one should be prepared for a long term commitment to this new pet.

In captivity as long as they are properly fed and housed, kept within a clean enclosure, the Leopard Gecko is a hardy lizard unlikely to have health problems.

Many owners of Leopard Geckos also love the fact that they will select one area of their cage to defecate, making cleanup a fairly easy task. They can also be maintained in groups providing the tank is large enough and has plenty of hide areas. NOTE that you may keep groups of females together OR several females and one male but NEVER put more than one male together as they will fight to the death!

For more details about the Leopard Gecko see our Leopard Gecko Care Sheet.

The length of the day and night hours, how high the sun is in the sky and the intensity of the sunlight all provide reptiles with information about the time of day and the season within the year. Reptiles adjust their daily activity levels and change their behaviours such as reproductive cycles and thermoregulation based on this information. Even species which are nocturnal change their behaviours by monitoring “day” and “night”.

Since no matter how carefully we place our lights, or the types of lights and strengths used, the number of hours on or off, they simply can’t beat the experience of Natural Daylight/Sunlight. This doesn’t always mean full sun, in fact ensuring your reptile has an escape to shaded areas or cool spots is certainly a must, with adequate water for hydration as well.

The UVB rays in sunlight have a direct affect on a reptiles’ immune system, this is why lizards will flatten themselves to increase the surface area of their skin that is exposed to the UVB. UVB is also best known for its role in skin synthesis of vitamin D3 in exposed WARM skin.

According to ReptileChannel.com, “Vitamin D3 synthesis in reptiles requires warmth as well as ultraviolet light. UVB converts a cholesterol in the skin to pre-D3, and this is converted into vitamin D3 very rapidly when a reptile is at its optimum temperature. The vitamin is toxic in large amounts, which is one reason giving it as a supplement can be risky (always follow manufacturer instructions regarding supplementation), but reptiles never generate too much D3 in their skin while basking. Natural levels of higher wavelength UVB and UVA prevent overproduction. They convert excess pre-D3 and vitamin D3 into harmless byproducts as soon as they start building up.”

photo courtesy of ReptileChannel.com

For these reasons, if and when it is possible, providing an outdoor enclosure and exposure to Natural Sunlight/Daylight is very advantageous to many reptiles. For this purpose I would recommend using the very light weight, easy transportable Reptariums by Apogee. They are all mesh, PVC pipe cages which require no tools for assembly.

When weather is not permitting we must closely try to mimick by its artificial equivalent … so careful planning of our lighting system is essential for a healthy reptile indoors.

So reluctantly I purchased my second mesh cage with PVC piping style. (I say reluctantly because I already knew the drawbacks from my large cage – see other post)

When I received this cage I ran into the same issues during assembly with the creaking and splitting of the PVC pipe. However on the upside, the full frontal zipper door this time was easier to manage due to this cage’s size.

Again I purchased the SoftTrays because this is the only way to contain the humidity, misting spray and making the cage clean up easier.

I still say though that these cages are simply too flimsy for a long term setup.

They are really intended to be used temporarily, or outdoors with virtually nothing inside of it to make transportation easy or to be used on travel excursions.

They’re certainly handy to place outside on the back deck, and there is nothing better for a lizard (or chameleon ) than some natural sunlight.

My recommendation still stands … for long term use, purchase ALL MESH cages with METAL FRAMING !!