On Wednesdays We Wear Scales 🐍💅

  On Wednesdays We Wear Scales  A midweek check-in from your favorite pink-haired reptile nurse. Hey! Winter always feels a little louder in a house full of ectotherms. The heat runs more than usual, the weather apps get checked obsessively, and suddenly everyone is thinking about power outages and emergency plans. So this week, I wanted to bring things back to one of my favorites, Pizza the axolotl, and use his calm, cool-water existence as a reminder that cold weather preparedness looks different depending on the species you keep. Feature: Pizza the Axolotl One of the biggest misconceptions about moving with reptiles is that everything needs to be torn down, tossed, or restarted from scratch. Pizza continues to be exactly who he’s always been: unbothered, observant, and absolutely convinced that it is always feeding time. Axolotls like Pizza are uniquely positioned when it comes to winter care. While many reptiles rely on heat, axolotls thrive in cool, stable temperatures, ...

  On Wednesdays We Wear Scales  A midweek check-in from your favorite pink-haired reptile nurse. Hey! We officially closed on the house this past week It’s exciting, surreal, and a little overwhelming, even though we’re not moving. Big life milestones like this always get me thinking ahead, especially when you keep animals. Even when a move isn’t imminent, it’s worth understanding what moving with reptiles actually looks like, and how much of it is preparation, not panic. Feature: Moving With Reptiles One of the biggest misconceptions about moving with reptiles is that everything needs to be torn down, tossed, or restarted from scratch. That’s rarely true. When it comes to bioactive enclosures especially, the goal is to preserve what’s already working, not disrupt it. For one of my setups during a move, I carefully removed the decor, wrapped the entire bioactive substrate layer in a bed sheet, and secured it so it stayed intact and lightweight enough to move. No soil lost. No...