Reptile Radio Australia

Peter, Meynies and Troy, will be getting down to the basics in tonights show. What do you get for a first reptile? Where do you strart looking for a first reptile? What do you look for in a first reptile? How do you know an animal is healthy? What to expect with a first reptile? How do you set up a first reptile? What are the basic needs of reptiles? What pitfalls can be expected with a first reptile?The guys will be answering these questions and many more, on tonights show!Dont forget to listen in!

Jonathan started keeping herps at 13, rapidly filling his parents house with banks of enclosures. He became interested in elapids and after harassing virtually every elapid keeper in QLD, his enthusiasm landed him a job at Venom Supplies in South Australia straight after he graduated high school. He worked with a host of species, from spitting cobras to pygmy copperheads, but mainly concentrated on a collection of 160 Coastal Taipans. A few years later an opportunity arose in QLD to purchase Educational Reptile Displays, the first on Jonathans forays into the business world. ERD is now a thriving education company, and one of few that does not perform birthday parties or school demonstrations – they strictly supply formal education to corporate clients, particularly in the safe and ethical handling of elapids. In 2009, Jonathan purchased Mike Swan Herp Books – Australia's largest bookstore specialising in reptile titles from throughout the world. Herp Books has around 300 titles in stock at any one time and travel to most of the reptile trade expos. Jonathan's main business interest was started in 2011 – Fauna Solutions. FS provides a host of fauna and environmental management work, particularly with reptiles in QLD's brigalow belt. 

We are covering a whole heap of things in tonights show. Our guest is Trent Rennex. Trent was born in 1973 and grew up in Brisbane until he was 12, then moved to Maroochydore, Sunshine coast. Trent has always been an animal lover! Trent's grandfather lived in Townsville, his house backed on to what was called the common (a bush area full of reptiles etc.) Trent's Grandfather used to have greyhounds and every time Trent visited He would walk his Grandfathers greyhounds and look for snakes ( Trent was petrified of snakes but fascinated at the same time). Trent would catch little dragons and take them back to Maroochydore with him on the train.Trent decided to devote himself to family life and a career until he reached the age of 30. it was at this age that the reptile bug really decided to bite down hard. Trent has kept and bred the following species since his inception into the hobby: Morelia Bredli, various forms of Antaresia, jungle carpet pythons, green tree pythons, darwin carpet pythons. trent also works with Albino Olive pythons, black headed pythons, rough scaled pythons, a pet woma,and Spencers monitor.  Trent has a collection of venomous snakes, that we will also be discussing in the show.

We are talking to the guys from Squamata concepts on today's show.John Adragna has bee keeping Varanus species since 1990. He has recently expanded his interests into Hognose snakes and various other species. His partner in crime is Gregg Madden. Gregg has a range of interests and is an all rounder when it comes to reptile care and reproduction!John and Gregg co-designed the S.I.M. Incubation container, that brought suspended incubation into the mainstream. John is the editorial liaison to Biawak journal.You can have a look at their information here:Vivarium internationalhttps://www.facebook.com/VivariumInternationalSquamata conceptshttps://www.facebook.com/squamata.concepts 

Peter, Meynies and Troy, discuss the events of 2013! This should be a very laid back show with many laughs. We will also discuss exciting things that we have hatched!Don't miss out on the last show for 2013