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Roots, Scoots, & Scales A joint effort between two reptile hobbyists working with unique animals. Lizards, colubrids & more!

31/01/2025

I was gonna wait to mention these, but they were too high up on my wishlist to keep quiet. 😆 1.1 Egernia depressa.
Just thrilled to be working with them, and this marks the 4th species of Egernia on the premesis.

Male is missing a foot from an incompatible pairing in the past, a risk with skinks, but luckily these two get along great and are bonded. I’ll need a pirate theme name for them, lol.

23/01/2025

Swarms of baby blue eye whites treefrogs over here. They are too cute! A lot of them are showing varying expression of snowflakes as well, I think I have a couple holdbacks in the bunch.

18/01/2025

Camo whites treefrog, love watching this one grow up and change! I think I need some more 😅
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14/01/2025

A nice red Cinnamon holdback from this past season 🙂 One of 3 that I kept from his pairings in 2024. Have to be super picky due to space constraints!

New camera does a really good job getting accurate color even in low lighting indoors, which I have struggled with on baby bts before.

13/01/2025

Just about halfway through pairing blue tongue skinks for the season. Cinnamon, my biggest red male, never shows any interest until he sheds after coming up from brumation. Still has a chunk left on his head but he was ready to go yesterday! 😆

04/01/2025

Cunningham’s skink up from brumation!
New year new camera.…one of the first photos I took with the Sony. Til this point, most of the pix on this page were taken with my old iPhone 8 😅 so this should be cool to use.

24/12/2024

Happy Holidays! Bringing the blue tongues up out of brumation this week, here’s a couple pix of some northerns & irian jayas in no particular order. Looking forward to 2025 🤞

06/12/2024

We will be at the Hamburg Reptile Show tomorrow 12/7!
6180 Morgantown Rd
Morgantown, PA 19543

Will be bringing an assortment of geckos, a few blue tongue skinks, rhino rat snakes, terrarium plants & some invertebrates. I will also have a few whites treefrog tadpoles from the recent spawn if anyone would like to raise their own. Typed up a little guide on that topic as well! Be sure to stop by and chat herps! Should be a fun day!

03/12/2024

She is not the biggest fan of being pestered but she gave me a moment for at least *one* decent photo, so I’ll take it, lol! Love the way her banding looks.
Fingers crossed for some more baby Irian Jaya’s this coming season!

19/11/2024

Two great looking baby northerns, these were produced by and I’m thrilled to have them here.

One on the left is Sunrise and Swedish lines plus het. Ivory, the baby on the right is a combo of Sunrise and Red lines. Should be fun to add them into the stuff I’m working on here and of course the ivory project too. Eating well & pretty chill little skinks.

16/11/2024

Hershey Reptile Expo tomorrow - 11/17!
3425 Old Hershey Rd, Elizabethtown, PA 17022-9050

Bringing a fine assortment of skinks, anoles, geckos, and some uncommon colubrids including Boiga cyanea, false water cobra, and rhino rat snakes - all 2024 babies. A lot of holdbacks in the mix and will be running some deals on a few critters to hopefully knock down some pretty intense vet bills we had this past week.
Will also have some terrarium plants including a few rare sp., & roaches (hissers, deaths heads, shadows). Be sure to stop by and chat herps. 😎

12/11/2024

Egernia striolata, another cool little Aussie skink species. Relatively new additions we picked up at tinley thanks to

Eating great, settling in, and I feel like the female is either gravid or cycling 🤔🤨 time will tell..
Enjoying keeping these guys so far, they have been out and active basically every time I’ve walked past the enclosure, seems like a really fun display species!

31/10/2024

Happy Halloween! 🟠⚫️
Two really awesome blue tongue skink growouts/holdbacks here. Dark line was produced by and the high orange was produced here in-house last season, from Mango. Looking forward to next year!

All of the adults are now in brumation, and there are going to be some very cool pairings in the works 2025.

29/10/2024

A little update on one of my favorite holdbacks. Lineage has hypo sunset Turner white, heavily leaning towards TW. However, idk where that super dark banding came from which keeps getting more bold with every shed! Really fun one to watch and I will be attempting to repeat the same pairing again this coming season, as I’m really happy with how the whole litter turned out pattern, structure, & temperament wise.

27/10/2024

Amel Pictus gecko but this one’s a bit of an oddball, way darker eyes than usual for what’s technically an albino. This one is a holdback!

18/10/2024

Hamburg/Morgantown PA reptile show tomorrow! I will be bringing blue tongue skinks(a few babies left!), geckos, and some Boiga cyanea babies. Along with some invertebrates and tropical plants. Looking forward to seeing everyone Saturday morning. As usual, we will be on the left side of the venue, back right wall. Taking over the corner there will cool herps next to 😎

15/10/2024

The baby reticulated water skinks that hatched earlier this year are doing awesome! Would love to repeat this success next season. Absolutely love the pattern on the babies and they are decently tolerant of me pestering them on occasion 😆

These are not leaving so please don’t ask! However I am on the hunt for additional ones to add genetic diversity to the project.

10/10/2024

An unexpected last minute update - We are vending NARBC TINLEY! This is a one-time occasion and will not be a consistent thing (maybe someday!) so if any long distance buddies want to stop by and chat herps - Tables 95-96. Will be with a few friends in the same space. Bringing quite a bundle of pictus geckos including some very nice holdbacks, amel, anery, bold stripes etc, so if you’ve been wanting to add some, now is the time! Also bringing blue tongue skinks, some rare geckos and handful of gargs/cresties. Maybe a few other cool little surprises. Cannot wait! This show is always something we look forward to attending just for fun so it is going to be awesome.

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Almost mossy frog season for the year! Have a decent group of tadpoles starting to morph out and several more batches on the way. This video is of one of the biggest adults here. . . . . #vietnamesemossyfrog #thelodermacorticale #frog #treefrog #reptilesofinstagram #reptilesofinsta #herpetoculture #reptilekeeper #reptilebreeder

Viper geckos are a top contender for cutest hatchling. Really neat, arid species that doesn’t get too big. Having a pretty good year with them, lots of eggs incubating from both groups of adults! . . . . #vipergecko #gecko #geckosofinstagram #reptilesofinstagram #reptilesofinsta #reptilekeeper #reptilebreeder #geckobreeder #herpetoculture

Barons racers are by far one of the most observant and curious snakes we’ve ever worked with. It’s really something else. . . . . . #baronsracer #philodryasbaroni #colubrid #colubridsofinstagram #snakesofinstagram #reptilesofinstagram #reptilesofinsta #reptilekeeper #reptilebreeder #herpetoculture

Checking on one of the Oedura coggeri groups. Have O. monilis eggs on the ground already but these guys are holding out! A few look promising but nothing yet. Still a really cool species and lucky to have them here. . . . . . #oeduracoggeri #velvetgecko #reptilesofinstagram #reptilesofinsta #reptileoftheday #reptilekeeper #reptilebreeder #geckosofinstagram #geckobreeder #lizardsofinstagram

New arrivals this morning from @herptime ! Thrilled to add Sphaerodactylus to the mix here, some true micro geckos. Their movements and the way they observe their environment are like no other, haven’t seen anything quite like it before! Pictured is Sphaerodactylus macrolepis but we also got a small group of S. sputator. Just awesome! . . . . . #sphaerodactylus #sphaerodactylusmacrolepis #microgecko #gecko #geckosofinstagram #reptilesofinstagram #reptilesofinsta #reptilekeeper #reptilebreeder #herpetoculture #geckobreeder

A little shinisaurus content since it’s been a little while since their last post! Video I took a couple weeks back of the 2023 babies. Doing great and a lot bigger already 😆 this species is a joy to keep, paludarium type setup and here they all eat a variety of insects, earthworms, shrimp, chopped fish, and a few of the Repashy diets are also taken with enthusiasm. . . . . . #shinisauruscrocodilurus #shinisaurus #chinesecrocodilelizard #reptilesofinstagram #reptilesofinsta #reptileoftheday #herpetology #herpetologia #herpetoculture #reptilekeeper #reptilebreeder

Happy World Lizard Day from RS&S! Here’s a quick snap of one of the mourning gecko colonies sampling some Pangea gecko diet. . . . . . #mourninggecko #lepidodactyluslugubris #gecko #geckosofinstagram #reptilesofinstagram #reptilesofinsta #reptileoftheday #reptilekeeper #reptilebreeder #geckobreeder #exoticpets #herpetoculture #herpetology #herpetologia

Today we picked up a great looking trio of viper geckos from @whoosgeckos at the NY Metro Reptile Expo. Already had a single pair here but these will help bolster genetic diversity in our groups and as a plus they are such a cute little species to work with that isn’t super fast like many of the smaller geckos in the hobby. . . . . . #vipergecko #gecko #teratolepisfasciata #geckosofinstagram #geckobreeder #reptilesofinstagram #reptileoftheday #reptilekeeper #reptilebreeder #herpetoculture #herpetologia

My absolute favorite little holdback from this years Northern blue tongue skink season! Just shed and looking great. This is a Gouda x Mango baby. . . . . #bluetongueskink #northernbluetongueskink #tiliquascincoides #skink #lizardsofinstagram #reptilesofinstagram #reptilesofinsta #reptileoftheday #reptilekeeper #reptilebreeder #herpetoculture #herpetology #herpetologia #tiliquascincoidesintermedia

These little pinecones are so cute 🥹 Decided to give them some freeze dried food as a treat and I’ve absolutely never seen them react so fast before! It was a hit! Gidgee Skinks | Egernia stokesii

Look at that tongue flicker 🤣 these guys are some of the cutest babies I’ve ever seen. Pink-tongue skinks/Cyclodomorphus gerrardii joined the crew today! #PinkTongueSkink #reptilesofinstagram #skinksofinstagram #lizardsofinstagram #reptilekeeper

Was asked to post an update on this one, was a really light baby and held onto the color pretty well! Btw- this is a yellow spotted night lizard and they are fast & bitey, I only had her out for a quick wellness check otherwise I leave them be.

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