Exotics Room

For the next three weeks I will feature one of our rooms to tie in with the animal of the week.

As Hovis is the animal of the week, this week's feature will be the "Exotics Room".

"Home to Reptiles and Creepy Crawlies"

An exotic species is anything that is not native to the UK, however our exotic room is home to reptiles, spiders and insects. We do have a few exotic species in the mammal and Aquatic rooms as well.

The exotic room has a whole variety of species including:

• Six Snakes  - Ava, Allsorts, Chas, Ronnie and the two Royal Pythons.
• Tarantulas - Cutie, Sabbath, Aurora among others.
• Seven Tortoises - Trinity, Achilles, Morla, two Spur-thighs and two hinge-back
• Geckos - We have a variety of Geckos including Leopard, Crested, Madagascan Day and Dwarf Sand Geckos.
• Two Bearded Dragons - Hovis and Stump.
• Two Plated Lizards - Gilbert and an unnamed very unsociable one.
• Two Collared Lizards.
• Two Chinese Water Dragons - Shui and Long.
• Scorpions including Emperor and Tailless Whipped.
• Blue Tongue Skink called Harri.
• One Chameleon  - Mrs Chameleon who replaced my favourite Mr Chameleon when he died.
• One Uromastyx - Sahara who was called Uri until we realised she was a girl - I love Sahara. 
• African Giant Snails.
• Millipedes.
• Hundreds of Cockroaches who breed like mad and are often used as food for the lizards. 

"Crested Gecko - Stunned by Blue nail varnish"