Keeping and Breeding Snakes - Hardcover

Mattison, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0713727098 ISBN 13: 9780713727098

Publisher: Blandford Pr, 1999

Synopsis

A fully revised edition of the classic book on snake care! Featuring the most up-to-date equipment, expanded facts on feeding, and newly written species accounts, along with 70 full-color photographs and updated diagrams, this guide provides all the essentials that every snake-keeper should know. * Set the correct degree of temperature, humidity, and light for your snake to thrive--it not only wants to be warm, it needs to be. * Fix up a cage in ways that make snakes feel comfortable and secure. * Keep your snake healthy with valuable advice on disease prevention, covering overhandling; the introduction of wild species into a cage; bacterial, viral, and parasite infections; and other miscellaneous problems. * Mate and breed snakes--even incubate eggs. Plus--special information on selective breeding. * Full species accounts include boas, pythons, colubrid, venomous, and small snakes. You'll turn to this handbook again and again! 224 pages, 95 color illus., 6 x 9.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blandford Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0713727098
• ISBN 13: 9780713727098
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224