My favor toys as a little kid were playmobil and my father informed me that unless I get the playmobil I had out of the attic he was getting rid of it. Well, that wasn't going to happen so I packed it all up and brought it home with me....and put it to good use playmobile is safe, stable, cute looking, and super washable...sooooo

Tezzy(my 5 month old corn snake) on his new jungle gym

Going down the castle ruin to the water trough (not his real water source which is a large dish in the back but it's drinkable and looked cute next to the well)
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Second floor of the castle ruin, I'm seeing what props I could put up there that are large and snake friendly (the wizard's desk looks kinda cool I may put that by the window and secure it down so it doesn't move around when he crawls on it)
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Gaurding the bridge over the canyon (he's my adorable legless bridge troll)
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My roaches got a tank facelift to, with a jungle and fossil theme. The two young boys love the skeleton rib cage since they can fight on top of it and knock each other off (my girls and the "good" boy leader of the tank have figured out that they can hide up in the skull)
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That is pretty awesome! I have to say I have mixed feelings about the roaches... having lived with many of their uninvited relatives as a student!
The set ups really do look cool though, and very reptile safe.

Very cool!

Beautiful snake Jamie and love the new digs. Roaches... um, well, they are a nice shade of brown.

Barbara....you are fantastic...always something nice to say...lol

We love snakes here.
The kids have several each.
Love love what you did!!!!!

My son Caleb has a Russian sand boa (Name: Natasha ) and takes his Halo megabloks and makes scenes like that.....
I will have to get some good pix next time he does a good one.

Because of my legs we are having to sell off all the farm animals and so I have been letting them get shakes to replace the large fuzzies that are leaving.
They are really cuddly and low maintenance...friendly too.

Speaking of roaches....has anyone ever raised them as reptile food?

Both my husband and son want another reptile but I hated dealing with the crickets for our bearded dragon. From everything I have read the tropical roaches are the way to go...but it gives me the heebie jeebies!

I know many like baby/young hissers for food (I know in another week my housemate's lizard will be getting his favorite treats again) And they're easy (and not overwhelming) to raise. 30 or so babies per female every 3 months. The babies are easy to raise up (no water dishes for the first month, I use cricket bags or they WILL drown themselves). Since they are my pets I typically only feed the weak or "bad molt" babies to my housemate's lizard but they others would make good food. They're quiet if you have mostly mature girls in your tank (Males get hissy at each other over favored places in the tank). Best of all, in our area if they ever got out they'd just huddle around their tank and they breed slowly enough infestation wouldn't be an issue. They also readily eat foods that will make them nutrious and healthy for what will be eating them (that was the problem we had with the damn crickets)

I really really hated crickets, I couldn't keep them alive and they smelled and were just a pain in the butt, plus Steve ate so darn many, I was going to the bait shop almost every other day to buy them.

I liked our bearded dragon, but he was just so big, and then he just up and died one day for no apparent reason.

Right now I am looking at Stinkpot turtles as an option since they stay small and I have an empty 55 and filters and all the other equipment, or maybe pygmy leaf chameleons, also (very) small and ridiculously cute.

I have also considered doing a frog terrarium, either firebelly toads or dart frogs...but I worry about noise.

Dubia roaches, are the species most commonly grown as food. I considered trying silkworms or hornworms as well but that seems like it would be as complicated as keeping the actual reptile.

Snakes are cool. The city crickets...not so much!