ALL IN A DAY’S WORK

The care and keeping of day geckos.

Scaling Up

What does it take to create the perfect enclosure for giant snakes? Keepers at Paradise Wildlife Park share their thoughts.

Peacock Keeping

Although peacocks are instantly recognisable, there are a lot of things the average person doesn’t know about these flamboyant birds.

Space Hoppers

Tim Baker, LVI Lead Keeper at Drayton Manor shares how the zoo managed to breed starry night reed frogs.

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MAGAZINE PUBLISHED BY Peregrine Livefoods Ltd

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Hastingwood Road

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Print ISSN: 2634-4695

Digital ISSN: 2634-4688

EDITORIAL:

Thomas Marriott

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We’re now into our third year of Exotics Keeper Magazine and what a time it’s been! To celebrate, we have launched a ‘highlights’ edition of Exotics Keeper Magazine, available on pocketmags and our website for new readers to get a taste of some of our oldest issues. You can find it at exoticskeeper.com/free-ek. This is a great opportunity for current subscribers to check out what you might have missed in the early days. We will also be discontinuing most of our oldest issues in the coming weeks (apologies if this has happened before the current magazine arrives) but if anyone is missing a copy and wants to grab a back issue, now is the time! Feel free to message our social media channels and we will check if there is any extra stock available.

This month’s content addresses some key husbandry topics, from ‘best practice’ for giant snakes to UV for birds. Unfortunately, both areas of exotics keeping seem to have some catching up to do, so we’ve highlighted an excellent example of an anaconda enclosure at Paradise Wildlife Park and outlined the reasons why indoor cage birds need UV lighting. We also have an unintentional Madagascar focus, as Tim Baker LVI Lead Keeper at Drayton Manor joins us as a guest writer to discuss how the zoo successfully keeps at breed starry night reed frogs. Simon Prentice at Phelsuma Farm also contributes some interesting tips for keeping day geckos.

This month welcomes the addition of our new recurring feature ‘Fish Science’ with Dr David Pool. Some of you may have seen Dave’s articles in the past. He is a Zoologist specialising in Freshwater Fisheries Biology with over 45 years of industry experience. Dave is a leading figure in the aquarist hobby and the new monthly feature aims to dive into the world of aquatics in an accessible way.

Finally, all being well, I will be visiting Madagascar later this month. My other true passion in life is travel and I frequently write reptile-focused travel blogs on my other channels. I hope to bring more of this to EK with regular social media posts and a full feature on the expedition in the coming months. This is just a trial, but I’d love to hear from our readers whether it’s something you would like to see more of.

Thanks!

Thomas Marriott Features Editor

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Right: Giant Madagascar day gecko (Phelsuma grandis)

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