Rouxgaroux Reptiles

05/30/2024

Kids of all ages are invited to join us this Saturday, June 1st - Rain or Shine - for our 15th Annual Bug and Reptile Day!! $2 cash entry fee for ages 3 and up.

05/05/2024

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04/16/2024

QUIZ TIME!!! Picture was taken in Louisiana @ Rockafeller Wildlife Refuge in brackish water. Answer will be posted tomorrow morning to allow everyone a chance to guess.

Answer time:

This is a Western ribbon snake (Thamnophis proximus)
Ribbons are a semi aquatic species of garter snake found in Louisiana.
We also have the larger Eastern garter snake that's not considered aquatic and more commonly found in fields and wooded areas.
They look similar but play different roles in our environment.
I will attach pictures in the comments to tell the difference, they are non venomous and harmless to humans and pets.

04/09/2024

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04/08/2024

**OWNER LOCATED!!! thanks everyone for your shares 🐢❤️!!!** If anyone in Central Louisiana is missing this spurred tortoise, he's here at the rescue. Proof of ownership (pictures of him/her and area where lost ) required.

01/12/2024

🤷🏻‍♂️ sorry 😅

01/06/2024

It's funny because it's true 😂👉🏻🐍

01/04/2024

The Argentine black and white tegu (Salvator merianae) is a large species of lizard in the family Teiidae. The species is the largest of the "tegu lizards". This species is popular as pets because it has unusually high intelligence and can also be house-broken. It is the only known reptile to be partly endothermic (warm blooded).

12/21/2023

Everyone please meet One eyed Willie, the royal python. Willie is the newest intake at the rescue. He will remain with the rescue for the foreseeable future, due to his injury being fresh.

12/01/2023

Prada doing blood python things 😅.

11/26/2023

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 And are. You forget about everything when you have a snake out. Its literally therapy 🐍❤️

11/21/2023

Rango the Thai water dragon (Physignathus cocincinus). He is now listed as threatened in the wild and on the CITES list for import. This means we will see them less and less. As now only those already in the USA can be bred and sold. He is fairly young so he will definitely be around for educational purposes with the rescue for the foreseeable future 🦎❤️

07/07/2023

05/16/2023

Food for thought 🤔

05/03/2023

Everyone welcome Elvis!
Our newest rescue at Rouxgaroux Reptiles!!

Elvis is a juvenile black and white Argentine Tegu.

So far he likes the down comforter ☁️ 🦎

His mom is going off to school and trusted us to give her scale baby his forever home! 🤗

Can’t wait to post more updates on Elvis!

04/13/2023

This is a native speckled kingsnake consuming a royal (ball) python. This is the reality of turning exotic pets loose. They will not survive due to an unnatural environment and predators they're not equipped for. PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU CAN NO LONGER CARE FOR YOUR EXOTIC PET!!! Our rescue specializes in exotic reptiles. We will take care of your pet until we can find it a good home to go to. Just please keep exotics exotic and don't turn them loose.

03/28/2023

If you happen to be in need of local feeders I highly recommend Hudson Creek Farms . They raise quail, rabbits, ducks, chickens, pigs etc. They cater to a few local reptile keepers so are up to par with weights, live and frozen practices. Great family to deal with located locally.

03/27/2023

Helped this Red Ear Slider to the bayou. She had just completed laying her eggs and was a tad tired.

03/25/2023

The temps are finally warm and we did some Sploring 🦎😍

03/01/2023

Kingsnakes can make some very popular and charismatic pets, but what makes them “king?” This part of their common name refers to their tendency to eat other snakes when the opportunity presents itself. Kingsnakes are known to eat rodents, lizards, birds, and eggs, as well as other snakes, including venomous snakes.

In biological and ecological terms, the kingsnake’s habit of eating other snakes can be referred to as “intraguild predation,” because it is the killing and eating of potential competitors (species that may rely upon the same prey resources). Interestingly, kingsnakes, non-venomous constrictors themselves, are often preying upon other constrictor species of snakes. What is it about these constrictors that makes them such effective predators of other constrictors?

As it turns out, researchers have found that kingsnakes can exert higher constriction pressure on their prey than ratsnakes. This is attributed to kingsnakes’ very distinctive constriction posture.

If you are interested in reading the research paper, follow the link below:
Penning, D. A. & Moon, B. R. (2017). The king of snakes: performance and morphology of intraguild predators (Lampropeltis) and their prey (Pantherophis). Journal of Experimental Biology, 220, 1151-1161. doi: 10.1242/jeb.147082 or http://jeb.biologists.org/content/220/6/1154
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The photograph in this post was taken by Peter Paplanus, and shows a speckled kingsnake (Lampropeltis holbrooki), one of the kingsnake species researched in the paper mentioned in this post. The photo was shared under a Creative Commons license Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0). The image was not altered for use in this post.
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03/01/2023

Kats personal boa Phoebe Camille 🐍

02/25/2023

Loki's first outdoor Splore of 2023 😍🐍

02/23/2023

These guys are so underrated as pets 🩸🐍😍

02/15/2023

Trying this TikTok think out, y'all go follow us rouxgarouxreptiles318

02/01/2023

Anubis and Phoebe getting some close-ups 🐍📷😍

01/18/2023

Let's make 2023 the year we quit misidentifying boa species. 🐍