About Reptile Kryda

Reptile Kryda started the way most useful reptile advice actually starts: with a thermometer, a slightly panicked internet search, and a snake that didn't seem to care about my deadline for figuring out its humidity. I've kept snakes for years now, corn snakes, a couple of ball pythons, and one hognose with strong opinions about being picked up. This site is the write-up of everything that took me too long to learn the first time.

There's no shortage of snake care content online. A lot of it is recycled from the same three care sheets. Some of it is written by someone who's never had to figure out why a shed came off in eleven pieces at 11pm on a Tuesday. This site is the opposite of that. Practical, specific, and built around the questions I actually had to answer for my own animals.

How our articles are made

Every guide here starts from a real husbandry question. How humid does this enclosure actually need to be. What does a normal shed look like versus a problem one. Why won't this snake eat. I work through the topic the way I'd work through it for my own terrarium, then check the specifics (temperature ranges, humidity targets, feeding schedules, medical red flags) against veterinary and herpetological sources rather than relying on memory or forum consensus. A wrong number here isn't a minor inconvenience, it's an animal's health. Where something is genuinely a judgment call keepers disagree on, I say so instead of pretending there's one universal answer.

I'm not rewriting a manufacturer's care card and calling it done. If an article doesn't reflect something I'd actually trust with my own snake, it doesn't go up.

About the author

Marcus Feld keeps snakes: corn snakes, a couple of ball pythons, and one very opinionated hognose. He writes up what that experience has taught him about keeping them healthy and comfortable. The focus here is deliberately narrow: enclosures, feeding, shedding, temperament, the everyday practical stuff, written the way Marcus wishes someone had explained it clearly back when he was setting up his first terrarium and second-guessing every reading on the thermometer. He's not a vet and doesn't claim to be one. Just a keeper who's put in the hours and would rather save the next person the same trial and error.

What we cover

The site is organized around the day-to-day realities of keeping snakes: setting up an enclosure with a real temperature and humidity gradient, choosing a species that actually fits your space and experience level, reading shedding signs and knowing when a shed has gone wrong, feeding schedules and safe prey handling, and the health checks that catch a problem before it becomes a vet visit. We also cover snake identification and safety topics: telling venomous from non-venomous species, what to do (and not do) if a bite happens. Keepers and hikers alike end up needing that information, and it deserves the same care as anything else here.

What you won't find much of: buying-guide roundups or "best of" gear lists. This is a care site, not a shopping site.

Editorial standards

A few rules we hold ourselves to: