Reptile Radio Australia
Summary: We discuss all facets of Australian reptiles and reptile keeping! Your Hosts: Peter Birch ( Author: The Complete Children's Python, ECO Herpetological Publishing & Distribution, 2013.) Owner and operator at "Colourful Critters' since 2005. He runs his facility from his family home, nestled on 8 acres in the tranquil Ourimbah Valley on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia. The whole collection was recently re-located from the main house to its new purpose facility in early 2012. The move was daunting as breeding season was coming and we were worried about the snakes settling in as they had been in the same place for 11 years and if the temperatures of the new facility would be the same but as it turned out the snakes didn't mind the upgrade and it has been one of the best seasons so far. Meyndert Bornman ( Author: Colour and Pattern Mutations of Australian Pythons, Keeping and Breeding Australian Pythons, Mike Swan Herp. Books, 2007.) Meyndert grew up in South Africa. He has held a keen interest in animals since he was a young boy. This interest focused more and more on reptiles over the last 25 years and has an overwhelming passion and obsession. He studied for a Bachelor of Science degree over three years, majoring in Zoology and Botany. He then proceeded to obtain an Honours degree the following year in Zoology. Meyndert bred many of the giant python species during his formative years in South Africa and he specialised in genetic colour and pattern variations. Meyndert currently resides in Melbourne, Australia, where he operates and owns a large scale reptile breeding facility at a professional level. He also operates a specialised on-line reptile husbandry product shop called PrecisionReptileGear.com. Meyndert and his wife Nicole hosted the 1st Annual Australian Reptile Mutation Breeders Conference in February of 2013.
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We are discussing Turtles on tonight's show. Andrew Pardey is an avid turtle breeder and keeper from NSW. It's about time that we had animals of the shelled variety on the show! Andrew currently owns 8 ponds with turtles in them and another 1 for plants and breeding live food. He has owned large numbers of different species over the years, but has settled on keeping Eastern Long Necks, Macleay River Short Necks, Hunter River Short Necks and Saw Shells.
This week we talk Blackheaded Pythons with Tyron from T's BHP's. He started keeping reptiles back in 1996. At one point he had up to 200 animals and decided to scale down his collection around 4 years ago, to a manageable size and select one main species to work with . Blackheaded Python's have always been Tyron's favourite so for that reason, and the relatively early stage of morph development in them it was an easy choice for him. Hopefully we can learn more of the intricate details in breeding blackheaded pythons and raising techniques of the off spring from someone who specialises. If your into your Blackheaded Pythons, you wont want to miss this show.
In this week’s show we are interviewing Peter Birch. Peter Birch is the Author of The Complete Children's Python, ECO Herpetological Publishing & Distribution, 2013. Peter is the owner and operator at "Colourful Critters' since 2005. He runs it from the family home, nestled on 8 acres in the tranquil Ourimbah Valley on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia. Peter is arguably the world leader in Antaresia Pythons.
We had so much fun on the show this week, that we decided to have him on again! Troy Kuligowski has been part of the Australian reptile hobby for the past 17 years. Troy has kept and bred most of the python species that are available to reptile keepers in Australia. Troy played an integral part in launching the magazine, Scales & Tails Australia. Troy is one of the organisers of the Scales & Tails Ipswich Reptile Festival and President of the new Qld. Reptile Society inc. Troy is the owner and operator of Co-dom Carpets, and concentrates on working with Carpet Python mutations and Albino Olive Pythons.
We will be discussing Reptile Reproduction and Incubation in tonights show. Your hosts along with a couple of other mystery guests, will cover a breeders season in detail. We will look at maternal and artificial incubation! Different methods of artificial incubation will also be discussed. With the Southern hemisphere breeding season in full swing, this is an episode that cannot be missed!
We will be discussing Venom extraction, with John Mostyn this week. John is the Manager of the Venom Section at the Australian Reptile Park in Gosford, NSW. John's job involves the maintenance of a large collection of native and exotic venomous snakes. John collects the venom of over 300 snakes for anti-venom production. John will be giving us some insight into venom extraction and anti-venom production! Dont forget to tune in!
We will be discussing Monitors with David Kirshner (Crocdoc) this week! David grew up in central Canada, where for some strange reason (given their scarcity there) he developed an interest in reptiles from a very young age. By the time he was in his late teens, much to the dismay of his parents (and to the embarrassment of his present day self), he was keeping everything from boas and Burmese pythons to iguanas and tegus, even an American alligator, in the family basement. When he reached university age, David turned his hobby into his profession by studying zoology. He then pursued his first love for his post-graduate degree, by choosing to research saltwater crocodiles for his PhD, which brought him to Australia. Lace monitors was a species he had been fascinated with from as far back as his childhood reptile keeping days in Canada. A chance meeting with Australian herping legend Anthony Stimson at an Australia Day party lead to David acquiring a hatchling ‘lacie’ and the rest, as they say, is history, for David has been keeping and breeding them since. We expect that this will be one of the great podcast monitor discussions of all time!
Tonight we will be interviewing Brad Walker of Crazy Carpets! Crazy Carpets was established in 2009 by Brad Walker who has over 25 years experience as a zookeeper/curator, wildlife teacher and private reptile keeper. Crazy Carpets is a reptile breeding facility specialising in Australian pythons. Crazy Carpets is located in the Hawkesbury area of NSW and is a private facility, it is therefore not open to the general public. Brad writes an informative Reptile Keeping blog on Kritter's Crumble called Brad's Snake Pit, it has all sorts of interesting facts and advice. We will also cover our usual topics in the show. Don't miss out!
Anthony Stimson owner operator of Australian Wildlife Displays, Wild Expo and the Australian Frog + Reptile show. Talks about the ramifications of cage sizes to be implemented into the NSW reptile keeping system and the effects it will have on every reptile keeper. We will also cover some of the recent reptile keeper licensing system changes, that took place in Victoria! If you have a license and care about the future of the hobby, then this episode is not to be missed!
In this episode we will be interviewing Joe Ball. Joe is the owner of Bluetonguelizard.com.au and is arguably the Australian authority in their captive management and care. Joe is working on numerous bluetongue skink projects at present, some of which are world firsts! We will also be finding out more about some of Joe's other interesting and rare projects. This show is a must for all of you who own, or want to own bluetongue skinks! We will also cover the latest industry news and give some feedback about the Goldcoast Reptile Expo!
Welcome to the first official Australian radio station, dedicated to all things reptile related. In this episode the hosts will be introducing themselves as well as discussing the motivations that led to the establishment of the radio station. The hosts will discuss breeding and incubation techniques, in light of the fast approaching 2013 breeding season. We hope that you will tune into this first of many great discussions!
