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ReptileChannel.com is the place to go online for all of your crucial and informative reptile and amphibian news. As part of AnimalNetwork, ReptileChannel covers reptile news stories that matter, from conservation efforts to the latest reptile studies, to club and event happenings throughout the United States. Keep abreast of the latest in reptile and amphibian health issues important to the herping hobby, view reptile videos, and learn to properly care for your reptiles.

ReptileChannel offers a range of care sheets covering lizards, snakes, turtles and tortoises, and amphibians. These are important pieces of information to properly care for your animals, with crucial information such as proper enclosure size and other habitat information, nutrition requirements, and animal demeanor. Want to add a ball python  to your collection? Check out the care sheet and read about its feeding requirements, optimal enclosure space, and if it requires a heat lamp to stay healthy. Looking to get an Indian star tortoise? ReptileChannel has the latest on how to care for it, and many other popular reptiles and amphibians, with new reptile care sheets always on the way! More>>

ReptileChannel Editor Russ Case is a long-time reptile enthusiast, beginning with a childhood spent in constant search of reptiles and amphibians to keep as pets, originating in the woods of his native New Jersey and later in the scrub and forests of Southern California. He has kept many different pet lizards, turtles and snakes, as well as, briefly, a single crocodilian (a spectacled caiman).

A professional editor since the mid-1980s, in 1993 he was hired by Fancy Publications (now BowTie Inc.) to be the managing editor of Bird Talk and the brand-new REPTILES magazine. REPTILES was an immediate hit, changing from a bimonthly magazine to a monthly and requiring Case to leave Bird Talk to focus solely on REPTILES and its annual sister magazine, Reptiles USA. REPTILES quickly cemented its position as an industry leader in promoting the successful keeping of pet reptiles and amphibians, and in 2001 Case became the magazine’s lead editor.

He is also the group editor of Aquarium Fish International, Aquarium USA, Marine Fish and Reef USA, Coral and Reef USA, Motorcycle Consumer News, Ponds USA, Auto Restorer and FishChannel.com, as well as a consulting editor for BowTie Press. He has written three children’s books about reptiles: Snakes, Lizards and Turtles and Tortoises comprise BowTie’s Beginning Vivarium Systems series of books. When time permits, Case also writes the blog, “Random Neural Firings of a REPTILES Editor,” and he can often be found engaging the reptile community on the REPTILES Facebook page.