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Grange Reptiles

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Grange Reptiles

Near Botley, Southampton

Licensing number - LC201802-521
(87)

We are a specialist reptile, amphibian, and invertebrate store which stocks a vast array of equipment, livefood, and animals; everything you need to become well-rounded exotics keepers yourselves! The Grange Reptiles page is an opportunity for us to tell people about what we do and the amazing animals we sell. It is a business tool not a forum and whilst we are happy to discuss any problems in person we will not tolerate abusive comments or the activities of Keyboard Warriors.

16/11/2024

🎶 I come from a land down under 🎶

White's tree frogs (Litoria caerulea) back in the house.

Also known as 'dumpy', or 'Australian green' tree frogs, they are a large, hardy species of frog native to the wetlands and moist/dry broadleaf forests of Australia.

They've been popular in the exotics trade for many a year now, but are often underrated; vivariums need to be large (preferably L60 cm x H90cm) and would look amazing if made naturalistic or bioactive. These frogs can cope with quite a warm basking spot (up to 36°C) as long as there are lots of areas that they can bask cryptically (under cover). There is also anecdotal evidence that they have been found basking in midday Australian sun, crikey!

That being said, they've also been found in toilets. Crazy amphibs. We have three adults (2.1.0) ready for new homes.

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15/11/2024

🐍 New member of the Grange household 🐍

We've welcomed a two year old "Banana Cinnamon" royal python (Python regius) (1.0.0) to our collection this week. We'll give him a few weeks to settle in and eat before he can go to a new home, but his fantastic temperament will mean he'll make an absolutely brilliant companion for anyone looking for a snake this Christmas 🎁

Pop in or message us to enquire on price and setup.

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14/11/2024

Oh? An egg is about to hatch... 🥚

Yet more Phelsuma laticauda (gold-dust day gecko) eggs have popped into existence. Babies feeding well on their liquid diet and fruit flies!

I'd imagine a massive space for these so you can really appreciate their behaviour further down the line, fully planted with full spectrum lighting!

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13/11/2024

🍽️ Someone is telling us something 🍽️

I'd like to pretend this was really cute, but this little blue tongue (Tiliqua gigas) did a poop out of protest very soon after these photos were taken.

As a 'reward', pear, omnigold, and some leafy greens were provided as a snack!

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12/11/2024

🌿 Little refresh on some of our small vivariums 🌿

A few of our vivs needed a little spruce up, a very nice activity to be doing now that it's getting colder outside! All of these have an LED supporting plant growth, and have been loaded with springtails and isopods to kick start a bio floor in them.

They won't be stocking animals for at least a month, to let the clean up custodians mature and establish within the enclosures. Eventually, we should have fully floroushing ecosystems that would be great to support dart frogs and other tiny herptiles.

Anybody else decide to go bioactive? How did you find the process?

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08/11/2024

✨ Arcadia Reptile New SFG 🌟

This goes out to our gecko keepers out there!

Arcadia:SFG gecko diets have been meticulously reformulated by experts to provide high quality nutrition in a simple and easy to use delivery method, catering up to 70% of your gecko's daily dietary requirements.

This decadent diet is packed with all the vital vitamins, minerals and magnesium your gecko needs to support it's health and immune system.

Currently sporting 4 flavours in 80g and 180g packets.

As we previously said in our last post we will give this a go ourselves!

07/11/2024

🦎 Dinner time at the zoo 🦎

Our Indonesian blue-tongue skinks (Tiliqua gigas) enjoyed a treat yesterday of pear alongside their usual mix of OmniGold and some greens.

Interesting to see how the perceived larger high value foods, in this case the pear, were more often than not carried outside the bowl to be eaten in private - this may or may not be due to potential food aggression if eaten around their conspecifics!

There is always something to learn when watching your animals, which is why we love them so ✨

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06/11/2024

🪲 Monster bug 🪲

Anybody for an insect? Invertebrates are an ancient and massively diverse group of animals; the fossil record has had invertebrate life longer than any other animal group, with the first recognisable arthropods appearing in the Cambrian era, around 538 million years ago! Since then, this group has dominated life on earth, with some estimates placing 95% of all life on earth within the 'invertebrate' group.

While it's safe to say we don't have 95% of our animal stock taken up by bugs, we do have some stunning examples of the modern day lineages of inverts, including this huge giant spiny stick insect (Eurycantha calcarata) male.

While I was changing their bramble, this guy made his way onto my gloves to say hello (I assume this, I don't speak bug), so I took the opportunity to snap some photos. We only have this one at the moment, and he requires a good space, lots of bramble to eat and wood to hide on, as well as a small water dish so he can stay hydrated!

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04/11/2024

🏆 We have our winners! 🏆

Firstly, thank you for all the entries, we enjoyed having a bit of fun and getting some of you involved!

So, without further ado:

1st place: Alyssa and a gorgeous, spooky, smiley crestie
2nd place: Jenny and her pumpkin patch Rankin's dragon
3rd place: Leanne and her chief supervisor to the pumpkin carving, an albino royal python

We have to give an honourable mention to Andy with the mice making their home in a pumpkin too - excellent composition, sir!

Winners feel free to come in to store for your vouchers, and I think we'll run another one of these for Christmas.

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03/11/2024

📢 Final call on our photo competition! 📢

Submit your best "spooky" pictures to our email or messenger, and we'll announce a winner later!

Remember there are prizes available:
1st place: £30 voucher
2nd place: £15 voucher
3rd place: £5 voucher

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03/11/2024

🧐 Masters of expression 🧐

I used to have a dog and we said that she had 'Gromit eyes' in reference to how much she could portray with just her eyes. While reptiles aren't exactly known to have facial expressions (a lack of the appropriate muscular structures finalises that) these red-eyed crocodile skinks (Tribolonotus gracilis) always seem to have that grumpy and sassy look, much like Gromit.

Red-eyed croc skinks are a shy, nocturnal 🌕 species from the island of papua and surrounding in southeast Asia. While they love to hide and play dead, spending some valuable time tong training these charismatic little skinks may well go a long way to bringing them out of their shells.

They'd do fantastically well in a planted setup 🌿 with a relatively high basking spot temperature and high humidity. Naturally these guys would hide in coconut husk piles and in the undergrowth of the forest floor.
If they may be the animal for you, come on down, we have 4 males and a female (4.1.0) with the female currently paired with the male in the hope of generating baby croc skinks!

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01/11/2024

🕷️ Spider infestation 🕷️

We have taken delivery of four awesome new tarantulas this week:

2x Brazilian salmon pink bird-eating tarantula (Lasiodora parahybana), one 3-5cm juvenile and one 2-3cm juvenile - perfect for someone after something that grows that bit larger, while still having a stereotypically docile nature.

2x Curly-hair tarantula (Tliltocatl albopilosus), both 1cm slings - perfect for the experience of raising a tiny baby into a fully flourished tarantula.

Both species make really good starter tarantulas, showcasing the typical calm demeanor of 'new world' (American) tarantulas.

We sell these individually or with accompanying setups. Enjoy the rest of your week! :)

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31/10/2024

🎃 Happy Halloween! PHOTO COMPETITION 🎃

From us at Grange to you all at home, enjoy the spooky day and we hope to see a few of you in store!

But to help give you some incentive, we are doing a photo competition; we're looking for the best halloween themed photo including a pet of your choice (we are biased to herptiles, hint hint).

We are giving out PRIZES in store once we have judged the photos we receive:
1st place - £30 voucher
2nd place - £15 voucher
3rd place - £5 voucher

Either send your photos through email ([email protected]) or drop us a message on our facebook messenger.

We will announce winners through our social media this Sunday (3rd November) who can then come and collect their prizes in store as and when.

Don't forget we have our handling session this Sunday too!

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Address

Woodhouse Lane
Botley
SO302EZ

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	9am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9am - 5:30pm
Thursday	9am - 5:30pm
Friday	9am - 5:30pm
Saturday	9am - 5:30pm
Sunday	10am - 4:30pm

Website

http://www.grangereptiles.co.uk/

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🦎 Dinner time at the zoo 🦎 Our Indonesian blue-tongue skinks (Tiliqua gigas) enjoyed a treat yesterday of pear alongside their usual mix of OmniGold and some greens. Interesting to see how the perceived larger high value foods, in this case the pear, were more often than not carried outside the bowl to be eaten in private - this may or may not be due to potential food aggression if eaten around their conspecifics! There is always something to learn when watching your animals, which is why we love them so ✨ LC201802 521

🌈 Splash of Colour 🌈 People who know me know that day geckos are not my favourite thing 🫢 they are rapid, slough their skin, and have toes seemingly made of Teflon... But... Man I am head over heels with these little fellas, introducing Phelsuma klemmeri, the yellow-headed day gecko. These little munchkins are approximately 4-6 months old and are oodles of character. They are always active during the day (diurnal) and love their faux-bamboo tube and the live plants that adorn their new vivarium. Find them on our front desk, although hopefully not for long: buy them! LC201802 521

🐍 Look at this! 🐍 In the words of the late, great Steve Irwin, "what a beautyyy!" I'm so stoked to have this one in store; introducing the STUNNING Honduran milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum hondurensis). This snake is native to the tropical moist broadleaf forests of Central America, and is a perfect example of an animal that exhibits what we call 'Batesian mimicry'. This form of patterning is where a non-dangerous animal mimics the patterning of a dangerous equivalent, in this case, the highly venomous family of elapid snakes; the coral snakes. LC201802 521

Some say the chicken came before the egg, Royals have a special place in our heart ☺️ LC 201802 528

Every morning walking into work 🥹

Beardies

Lunchtime!

Our Orange Isopods are enjoying their unusual breakfast… The shed skin of a Corn Snake! These guys are detritivores, meaning they eat and thrive off of dead organic materials - making an old piece of skin the perfect meal for them! Did you know there are around 10,000 different types of isopod, both terrestrial and marine? 👀 🐌 LC 201802 521