Surrenders, Babies and a Giant!

It's been a busy month in The Reptile Room with six baby crested geckos, four new dart frogs, ten dwarf geckos hatching out and no less than five tortoises surrendered to our care!

We took two weeks off for a much needed break away in Spain and came home to a population explosion!

So many babies!

This Season Ladybug was paired with Severus and all of their offspring have been given plant based names.

This is also Miss Ruby and Pippin's first time paired and their babies have been named after precious gems.

Introducing our 2026 baby crested geckos

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As well as our Crested geckos, our Klemmeri and Mourning geckos have been laying eggs here there any everywhere! Before we left for holidays we moved the Klemmeri and Mourning gecko nursery jars into the parent vivs to ensure the babies safety, and whilst we were away many many eggs hatched in those vivs.

We currently have AT LEAST six baby Klemmeri geckos in the Bamboo Forrest with parents Siggy, Floki and Lagertha, whereas I can not even guess how many baby mourning geckos are hiding in with their mothers, sisters and aunts! I've managed to catch exactly TWO! But there are many more in there.

Our frogs have been busy too with our Ranitomeya Variabilis Southern trio producing ten more viable eggs, even more exciting is that our Auratus Super Blues have finally laid a viable clutch of five eggs which are currently splitting and turning into tadpoles. This is only the second time the Auratus have bred for us; with just three froglets produced last year! I have my fingers and toes crossed for a successful transition.

That's our exciting news from within The Reptile Room, but if we expand our view just a little you will notice that our entire house has become rather full of tortoises!

Enter the tortoises....

It started with Timmy, our Red Foot Tortoise, whom we adopted in January and fast became a firm favourite with my family, hes more like a dog than anything else and we love him to bits! I had never much considered tortoises as a family pet, but Timmy changed all of that and opened my eyes to the the shear amount of time and attention they need, Timmy is only eight years old but wants - no demands - attention from everyone who walks through my sitting room, he Needs time outside, he Needs interaction and enrichment. Watching Timmy thrive having his needs met made me very aware of all of the tortoises out there who are not receiving the same, for whatever reason. They all deserve what Timmy now has. And so construction began.

Well it took a while to build and secure a 15ft x 20ft garden space for tortoises to roam safely, source suitable vivariums, heat and light bulbs, thermostats, bowls and substrate for rescues and surrenders but this week we were finally done and one by one the tortoises began to arrive at our door.

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First up was Jimmy (a Sulcata), Hershel (a six year old Hermans) and Sheldon (a Horsefield) who were surrendered due to their owners failing health.

Bowser the Bulldozer!

Next came Bowser - a giant Yellow foot tortoise who is far too big for even the biggest of vivariums who now has full access to the garden during the day. Hes having a great time chasing my chickens!

Tiny baby Marjorie

Then (from one extreme to the other) we received Marjorie, a tiny baby Marginated

tortoise who's just the cutest little thing!

Now as Horsefield and Marginated tortoises both carry dangerous pathogens that could prove fatal to other tortoises Sheldon and Marjorie have had to be separated into a different area of the house so as not to infect the others. They pose no threat to people or others of the same species, just ALL other tortoises. Unfortunately this means that they wont be allowed out into our garden enclosure.

So I have Timmy in the sitting room, Hershel and Jimmy in The Rescue Room, Bowser roaming the garden, and Sheldon and Marjorie in the conservatory. Its a full house!

Right now Jimmy and Timmy are taking turns in the Garden enclosure by day as the weather is fab, male tortoises are notoriously territorial so they can not share the garden enclosure without the risk of them fighting one another, Timmy doesn't seem to mind too much though as he still has free run of the house when Jimmy is outside.

I'm hoping to find five star homes for the biggest torts first to ease the electricity burden and enable the smaller torts to be moved into bigger and better vivs for the remainder of their stay.

If you would like to offer one of our tortoises a home please get in touch via email, Facebook, Instagram or Whatsapp.

Proof of set up is essential for Bowser and Jimmy - They need a huge amount of space and will not be rehomed to anyone who does not have secure garden access.