i know this is a pretty known thing, but honestly.........Examples:We can keep salties, yet not freshies. We can keep inland taipans, but not other python species......Oh, and we can keep a lace monitor on a Basic wildlife license, but not any rock monitors, on even advanced......Of course, i'd...
Hi guys,
So I know that currently the pygmy freshwater crocs are restricted to the high escarments within the Northern territory, are half the size of regular freshwater crocs and that research involves mesauring and collecting tissue samples. What other information is there on these spectacular...
Hi all,
just doing some research on keeping crocodiles as I will be getting my first one shortly. I have read the Husbandry Guidelines for The Freshwater Crocodile and says preform a complete or 80% change of pond water twice weekly. Do people do this? Or do you do something like this but not...
Scientific Name Crocodylus johnstoni
Common Name Freshwater crocodile
Age approx. 3 years
Size 50 cm
Quantity Available 1
Bred By
General Description QLD buyers must have a demonstrators permit. Crocodile hasbeen used for reptile displays for the last 2 years. he is typically...
Hi guys hoping someone here will be able to help me out. I currently have an amazingly docile stimpson python which I have taken to work a couple of times to show off. He is amazing and always a hit with any customers we have around at the time. As we get school camps in, I have been asked if I...
Hi Everyone, here are some photos I've taken recently up around Mareeba/Tablelands, hope you enjoy the photos.
Tommy roundhead
Diporiphora australis by Kieran Palmer, on Flickr
Diporiphora australis by Kieran Palmer, on Flickr
Dead Robust blind snake
Ramphotyphlops ligatus by Kieran...
I can't wait to start putting together my own once I've finished my current project. Would love to see other's set ups. The more natural looking the better.
Afternoon Everyone,
I was looking through the Keeping wildlife privately in Queensland — Conditions and restrictions. It seems like the Woma is no longer a restricted reptile anymore? If you scroll right down to the bottom it gives lists of what you can keep etc. Can someone confirm what I've...
First up a little freshie, there are plenty around the lakes at the moment
Freshwater Crocodile by R. Francis, on Flickr
I was very excited to see this Black-palmed monitor, unfortunately the bugger disappeared in to the rocks before getting any other photos
Black-palmed Monitor by R...
Just thought I'd share a few pictures of this cane toad that comes into the laundry and eats our cat food every night. My mum insisted she held it. So I was like. "YES, AND I'LL TAKE PICTURES."- Over enthusiasm.
Anyway, here they are.
Oh, and by the way, we don't kill them, as my family have...
Taken from the NT News and modified for obvious reasons.
THE crocodile war appears to have been won.
Melbourne reptile handler “No name man” wanted to name the Territory's freshwater pygmy crocs as a new species. He dubbed them Oopholis jackyhoserae after his daughter and published the name in...
Recently I spent 3 weeks volunteering in the Eastern Kimberley with a scientific project radio tracking monitors, both Varanus panoptes and Varanus mertensi. The research was being conducted at El Questro Station a popular tourist destination in the East Kimberley and involved many different...
hello i have just gotten my advanced wildlife licence i wanna purchase a salt water crocodile
my friend has a freshy he got it from crocodylus
they want 500 for freshys and salties was wondering if there is any where else cheaper
G'day everyone,
I have a Queensland 'Standard' Recreational Licence, I have been looking on the net and have found nothing so far.
So I thought I would ask on here.
I am looking at a Brown Tree Snake and being Mildly venomous I am unsure if I am aloud to have one one the Queensland Recreational...
hello, been looking at getting a freshwater croc for a while now and decided its time to get one just want to know
for the 1st few years if a 6x2x2 fish tank will do (got one in the shed ya see) untill it just dosent look comfortable in there??
size im looking at is a 30cm hatching.
thanks for...
Hey There Fellow Reptile Lovers
I live in Victoria and was just wondering if anyone knows where I can find a juvi freshwater croc from
All help will be appreciated
Many thanks
Hi I was wondering how i could purchase an animal from a different state in Australia to Sydney and am curious about the laws?
I am wanting to get these types of animals, Common tree snake, brown tree frog and (probably frowned upon and i don't know if this animal can be kept in Aus) a Cane...
Hi everyone.
Just a few photos of what I came across whiles I was up North.
Freshwater Croc Crocodylus johnstoni
Plenty of these guys around up North.
Had a nice experience with a few whiles my mate and I were walking through the water waist deep around midnight whiles looking for snakes...
I've always wanted to own a pet crocodilian! I wish it was possible to legally own crocs in NSW like it is for VIC. Does anyone know how to go about trying to make them legal? I'm sure hundreds of herp addicts have tried before..
I can only wish they'll be available here in the (near) future.
hey guys just set up my 6 foot enclosure for the new freshie i have coming in a few weeks, it has a hide, land, carpet, basking spot everything it needs i rekon, let me know what you all think.
Also i have only just set it up and the external filter isnt on just yet to pick up all the dust...
went to a mates today coz he has a fresh water croc that he has not got out of the enclosure for 7 months, so i thought id come round and give it a crack, not having any experience with crocs it was a new and very exciting experience :) check out the photos, its a beauty.
I'm moving to Townsville in a couple of weeks and was trying to find a link or something that outlines what pythons I can keep in QLD on a standard licence. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers - Craig.
he is a year and a half freshwater crocodile jus built a new tank its 9ftx2x2 thinking of selling him as i would like 2 juvenille merton monitors and would put them in this set up and dont have any more room but its still just a thought,,thanks for looking
hi, if anyone out there is selling a freshwater crocodile i'm your man. i'm looking for a hatchling or anything under 2ft.
if you could please contact me that would be great.
i look forward to hearing back from someone.
cheers...
Reegs.
I have always wanted to keep a freshwater croc but I don't know where to start looking for a permit or what is required for the permit in nsw. Any help on this topic would be much appreciated thanks
This is the second and final installment regarding this particular trip. The majority of the time I spent with Kris during his trans-Australia roadtrip was concentrated in the Top End of the Northern Territory. This is an amazing area of sandstone gorges, massive wetlands, extensive mangroves...
Just a short post while working in Indonesia, we are helping on a documentary with Dr. Bryan Fry due to come out next year through BBC and Animal Planet, I have attached a few photos here, but more will come on the Snakehandler facebook fan page, when I finally arrive home. It has been an...
Ive just spent twenty minutes on hold to the QLD EPA, had to hang up as I only have a mobile phone ($$$!!)... Ive searched their website, searched on my actual lisence but I dont see anything that clearly tells me what I want to know! my question is this.. (and it may sound silly but I really...
OK I am getting conflicting answers from people arounf me. I have a QLD RWL and it states:
one place that the license gives me the right to keep unlimited animals, reptiles and amphibians
under this it says
Conditions for : keeping live commercial reptiles and recreational amphibians
Agency...
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Source: ABC Science
Warmer temperatures may make it harder for crocodiles to dive for food, say researchers.
A team led by Dr Hamish Campbell, from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, report their findings today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B...
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Source: ABC News
A freshwater crocodile has been found beheaded on the banks of the Katherine River, the Northern Territory Environment Department says.
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Hello All,
I am not after one just yet but hope to very soon.
I want to know where the best place to get a juv Freshie from, whether it be in Vic or I import it from interstate. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Im definately not the best with a camera, but as requested, here are some photos of my freshie setup.
Ill get my brother to take some snaps one time since he is a wizz with his camera's.
The water is dark because the big log in there has been leaking tannins for like the last 2 months. I...
I am curious to find out what crocodile owners do with their crocs when they are fully grown? Do u make an outdoor enclosures?? if so what measurements, etc...
with a rec licence with the epa the only restricted snakes are
Restricted reptiles or amphibians
The following reptiles are restricted reptiles:
Common name Scientific name
The following reptiles of the family Elapidae —
black snakes Pseudechis spp
broad-headed snakes Hoplocephalus spp
brown...
These guys are great, fed both my male and female 2 pinkies each today, male knocked one out of the tongs...fantastic little guys, been mating strong, fingers crossed
Hi, im fairly new here, was just wondering how many snakes a standard reptiles license in Queensland allows you to keep, the wording is sort of vague "allows keeping of maximum of two restricted reptiles or amphibians other than dangerous reptiles" so, does this allow the keeping of two...
hey guys!:)..just curiouse..with this news of crocs being found in south east qld..they say the one was more than likely a released captive.wich is probably true.. but i have heard of croc sightings just north of brisbane,( i have had people tell me..i have never witnessed one myself)..tho i did...
Scientific Name
Crocodylus Johnstoni
Common Name
Freshwater Crocodile
Age
5 or 6yrs
Sex
??
Length
3 foot +
Quantity Available
1
Bred By
Crocodylus park
General Description
Happy healthy active little guy with plenty of personality. Eats like a pig if you let...
Scientific Name
Crocodylus Johnstoni
Common Name
Freshwater Crocodile
Age
5 - 6 yrs
Sex
Unknown
Length
About 3 foot
Quantity Available
1
Bred By
Crocodylus Park
General Description
Happy, healthy, active and interesting little guy. Eats like a pig if you...
I was after some information regarding the licence requirements of freshwater crocodiles in Victoria, South Australia and the Northern territory? Are they on a basic licence equivelant to NSW class 1? Or on some form of higher licence?