Northampton Reptile Centre

Are you ready for breeding time?

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Gary.

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This week has seen an explosion in reptiles starting to lay their eggs! However, everybody who already breeds reptiles will know that getting them to lay is the easy bit. A good diet, the right environment and a member of the opposite sex is usually enough to get many of the commonly kept reptiles going! [...]

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Can you link World Cup memories to reptiles?

Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by Gary.

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As a nation we love the football world cup, and even if you don’t like football it’s impossible not to get caught up in the frenzy. The other day I was thinking about some of my world cup memories and before long my mind had drifted to reptiles (this happens a lot!). The end result [...]

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Have you ever seen a freshly hatched Leopard Gecko?

Posted on 19. May, 2010 by Gary.

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Everybody loves baby animals, so when these guys started popping out of their eggs I thought I’d better grab a camera and share them with you guys! These are Leopard Geckos that have literally just hatched. The eggs had been in the incubator for 2 months. The interesting thing about these lizards is that you [...]

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Want more animals in the shop? OK…

Posted on 18. May, 2010 by Gary.

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What’s better than a shop full of reptiles? An even bigger shop full of reptiles! Thats what we think too. So, how do you make a reptile shop bigger? Start knocking down walls! Yesterday saw the start of our reptile shop expanding by around 25%. This involves knocking through into the old office space and [...]

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Do you like reptile products and use Facebook?

Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Gary.

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We’ve been working really hard recently to make our website as easy to use as possible for you. There’s a lot of products on there and whilst everybody loves having choice, there are some reptile keepers who are unsure which are the best products for them. We’re always at the end of the phone to [...]

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Photo competition winners announced, did you win?

Posted on 13. May, 2010 by Gary.

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143 entered our photography competition. Lois, Sam, Steve Carlin and myself needed to whittle that list down to one winner (£50) and 20 runners up (£10). As the standard was so high, we couldn’t do it, so now we have one winner and 21 runner ups! The winning photo was by Andy Wootton and the [...]

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How good are these reptile photos!?

Posted on 07. May, 2010 by Gary.

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Firstly, thank you to everybody who entered our reptile photography competition. We’re still in the process of judging them all, there are 143 entries in total! Good luck if you entered. Whilst we’re working through them all, I thought I’d share with you some photographs we have had taken of some of our animals recently. [...]

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There is still time to win prizes in our photo competition!

Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by Gary.

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Lot’s of you have already entered our reptile photography competition but I know there’s still lots of great potential entries out there! Don’t forget there’s a £50 first prize that can be used to buy anything on our website www.reptilecentre.com. There’s also 20 runner up prizes of £10 to spend! We’ve got top photographer Steve [...]

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Could You Win our Reptile Photography Competition?

Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by Gary.

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Are you a budding photographer and reptile keeper? As I scour the pages of Facebook, Twitter and Flickr I see plenty of high quality pictures of people’s pets. Reptiles make excellent photographic subjects, so we thought why not have a competition to find some of the best? If your Bearded Dragons or Corn Snakes are [...]