#herptile

He's gone from being worryingly skinny despite my most attentive efforts to meet his needs on aspen, to the point I was worried I was over feeding him while he was gaining no weight, having terrible stuck sheds despite a humidity box resulting in me having to give him forced hydration periods in a Tupperware with a wet rag... To now, where he's thriving with beautifully healthy scales and naturally heavy-bodied as he should be, on a healthy amount of food almost 1/3 of what he'd been fed previously. He doesn't need to be harassed with the food to eat. He waits with his head poking out of the hole to ambush the f/t mouse on tongs with a healthy appetite. He's easy to handle now, calm and relaxed and sweet.

my first contribution is to inform you all that Carl Linnaeus hated frogs. Like, really hated them:

"These foul and loathsome animals are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; and so their Creator has not exerted his powers to make more of them." - Carl Linnaeus, Systema Naturae 1758 (Translated from Latin)

idk what went down between Linnaeus and a frog but dude was traumatised

also here is a photo of one of my science frogs, his name is Granny

little lizard having their moment on a rock

i think it’s a western fence lizard ??? i don’t see any armpit blotches, so i’m ruling out side-blotched.

Happy Herptober 🎃🦎