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View this email in your browser Reptile Super Show Anaheim Reptiles, amphibians, plants, supplies, and more! Come see it all at the Reptile Super Show this weekend. Thank you to Ramy and the Super Show crew for their continued USARK and herp community support. The USARK benefit auction opens Saturday night at 5:00 p.m., right after the show, with the live auction starting at 6:00. Come support our work to protect your freedom to have reptiles and amphibians as pets. The auction is FREE, and everyone is welcome. We appreciate everyone who donates and attends, as USARK would not be possible without these auctions and our supporters. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! We always need volunteers at shows. Please email vanessa@usark.org if you want to help. Thank you! Get full show details at www.reptilesupershow.com/anaheim-ca/ . "The Reptile Super Show is meant to educate the public about pets they may otherwise never get the chance to know, but we are also passionate about captive breeding and keeping the populations of some of the world’s most interesting creatures alive and well. Educational, fun, and no doubt exciting, the Reptile Super Show is something everyone should visit at least once. If you’re not a reptile fan when you arrive, we promise you that you will leave as one." October 3-4 Saturday: 10 am-5 pm Super Show After Party and USARK Fundraiser: 5:00 pm (at the Convention Center) Sunday: 11 am-5 pm Anaheim Convention Center 800 West Katella Avenue Anaheim, CA 92802 ALERT: Maryland H

Hi all, I’ve had my male BP for about 3 months. He’s approximately a year and a half old. It seems like he’s really gotten settled in. He’s been eating f/t small rats well, he handles well, he’ll occasionally explore at night, he’s on the smaller side still so he’s in a 36*19*12” pvc wilbanks enclosure with a RHP, he has belly heat supplement that is on a thermostat… it’s low and covered in 4” of substrate… I check the temp regularly. His enclosure features live snake plants, blue grama grass, magnolia leaves and Wilbanks coco husk substrate and some reptisoil mixed in around the plants. He has sphagnum moss and aspen in his hides. There is an active white springtail colony in the enclosure. All his husbandry numbers are in tolerance. Typically 88 degrees and 65% humidity hot side, 78 degrees and 75% humidity cool side. I use two thermostats/hydrometers on both sides… Govee and INKBIRD, so I’m confident in the numbers. He had a good shed three weeks after we got him. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to see the lead up to the shed. We had a family emergency and had to go out of town for 6 days. Came back and there was a shed in the enclosure. We didn’t see any signs of him needing to shed before that… but he was petty shy and secretive the first month we had him. Two nights ago I saw him soaking in his water dish. He was in there about an hour. I didn’t disturb him and let him do his thing. Last night I got him out and checked him all over. No mites on him or in the water dish. His

DEADLINE: Sunday, September 20 Please take just a few minutes to voice your support > > > (you can just copy the statement below & email it) thanks :snake2: https://www.savethebuzztails.org/sin...n-for-snakes&& Georgia's Protected Species List: Public Comments Open! The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is proposing updates to the state's protected species list which would include the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake ( Crotalus adamanteus ) as a state-listed threatened species. State listing prohibits intentionally harming protected animals and removing plants from state lands without a permit or from private land without the landowner’s permission. It also encourages voluntary conservation to protect habitats, focuses DNR efforts to prevent species from declining to the point they need protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and authorizes the agency to work with federally listed wildlife. You can read more about the proposed updates here. Back in June, our organization submitted a formal nomination requesting that the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake ( Crotalus adamanteus ) be evaluated for state listing. Now, we invite you to join us in speaking for the wild! Read our full nomination and reference documents below, and submit your own public comments by sending an email to wcscomments@dnr.ga.gov with the subject line Protected Species List.Not sure where to start? Feel free to copy and paste our statement: I am writing to express my strong support of including

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/new-r...yland/73606978 WESTMINSTER, Md. — Maryland wildlife officials are considering changing the rules for keeping and breeding some reptiles and amphibians that are native to the state. WBAL-TV 11 News explains why and what officials say people should not do if they already own one of these animals. "(The) diamondback terrapin (is) ... the first one that comes to mind, the namesake for the University of Maryland Terps," said Dean Pennington, the owner of Dean's Turtle Farm in Westminster. Pennington cares for more than 100 turtles and tortoises, and almost all of the native species at the farm were surrendered after being taken from the wild. "No matter how much you love an animal, you cannot provide for it with the same level of care or comfort that the wild can provide for them," Pennington told WBAL-TV 11 News. Maryland wildlife officials are hoping to protect native species with new regulations that will likely be introduced to the public next month. "Some of the threats that we are seeing are new and emerging diseases and an increase in poaching and illegal trade. A big problem with a lot of these new diseases is that they are almost impossible to detect until it's too late," said Karina Stonesifer, the director of Wildlife and Heritage Service at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Which animals are we talking about? Stonesifer told WBAL-TV 11 News that the proposed changes would alter possession and breeding regulations for a

Sharing my email from Melissa Amarello with Advocates for Snake Preservation (ASP): Please, everyone...It's EASY to speak up about this to save our roadless forests! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It was early July, before the monsoon began. The kind of dry, hot weather when snake activity is at one of its lowest points of the whole year. And yet we found a Rock Rattlesnake dead on the road. Not a highway. A rough, dead-end dirt road on private land, the kind with maybe one or two vehicles a day, nowhere for anyone to be going fast. But just one, slow-moving vehicle can be fatal for a snake. This is a road with almost nothing on it, in a season with almost no snake movement, and it still killed him. Now imagine 58.5 million acres, a third of our national forest system , opened up to the roads that industrial logging and oil-and-gas drilling require. Not dead-end dirt tracks with a car or two a day. Real roads: built for trucks, built for extraction, built to carry traffic in and resources out. The Roadless Rule has kept these forests intact for 25 years . A sort of sanctuary for the snakes and other animals who call them home, with no roads fragmenting them and turning open backcountry into a grid of mortality. Roads don't just kill the animals unlucky

View this email in your browser VOTE NOW! Pick our next shirt design! CLICK HERE TO VOTE: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/USARKshirt26c Logo artwork by Adeline Robinson Art . The voting will end on September 1, 2026, at 9:00 PM EST. Shop our current items at www.usark.org/shop . We also have this posted on our Facebook and Instagram pages. ALERT: Maryland Herp Regulations Alert on website at https://usark.org/26md/ . The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) has been working on changes to the state’s herp regulations. MDNR staff has already presented one proposal at several meetings to ban the possession of all native Maryland herps, including captive-bred animals. There is no timeline yet, but a formal proposal is expected to happen at any time. All Maryland stakeholders are encouraged to join the Maryland Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Charitable Trust (MAARC) Facebook group for updates. You can request to join the group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1971574380136788/ . MDNR already regulates the possession, breeding, and sale of native herps through permits and licenses. Many species are protected and not allowed to be possessed.The Maryland Herp Club (previously called the Maryland Herpetological Society) provided MDNR’s herpetologist with a 25-page set of recommendations and regulatory changes that agree to some amendments to Maryland’s herp regulations, but not a broad-sweeping ban. The Herp Club’s recommendations rejected the possession ban on all Mar

Hi Everyone! I'm fairly new at identifying Spotnose, and I've seen a lot of conflicting photos online that make me question whether or not my clutch has Spotnose. There are 8 babies (see below) - the pairing was Hypo x (Super) Pastel Spotnose Enchi Leopard YB Clown. I appreciate in advance any help identifying Spotnose in these babies, or any tips/tricks you can provide to help me determine if it's present! Thank you! #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech...r/91409242007/ A 15-foot python is cancer-free after becoming the first snake in the world to receive a cancer treatment usually used only in humans. Video at link.

Hello I just had few questions. I was gone on vacation for a week and had my gf look after my snake. She accidentally was misting the enclosure to try to maintain humidity and he developed a small patch of scale rot. I have moved him into a enclosure with just paper towels as substrate. I've done Betadine soaks and neosporin (no painkillers). Over the past couple days ive noticed his belly scales are flaking/peeling as single scales. There is only 1 small spot of brown scales rot or what I believe is scale rot but the flaking scales seem to be most of the length of his belly. Once the scale flakes off the scale under just doesnt look like it has the shine they usually do. You can kinda see in the one picture with the brown. Just trying to figure out if this is serious and needs medical attention. I see no signs of a shed coming but he is due for a shed i believe. Ive had a very hard time maintaining humidity since witching to paper towels. Any insight about the scale rot and peeling scales would be great. Ive had him for 3 years and never seen his scales flake like this

Morning all, stats as follows: temp- cool 80f warm 89-91f heat source - red light substrate - paper towels diet - live small rats My ball python has had now three defecations in a row that are less solid than normal. Usually it'll be a log or two that can easily be cleaned, but the last few have been a mushy mess that has been spread all over everything in the enclosure, up the glass, I end up having to clean everything which is a pain in the butt. My main concern is, what does this mean for her health? No changes to feeding items, small live rat once a week, as I try to get as much in there as I can while she is not fasting (fasting generally 6-8 months of the year). Her feeding response is a lot stronger than ever before. She actually tagged me (first time ever) a couple of weeks ago when I didn't get my hand out of the way fast enough. I thought this was a positive change, but now with the loose stool I'm not so sure. Her enclosure is always kept clean, fresh water every few days, no exposure to any other animals, no other pets in the house. Not sure what other info to include. Thanks