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29/12/11
Well it has been a crazy christmas here with loads of orders coming in and loads going out. we are changing the shop around abit at the moment and some may have already seen our new exhibit in the centre of the shop (you can hardly miss it), when finished it is likely to house some of our huge 15ft plus snakes that are currently not on show, this exhibit is being themed as a volcano, it will have fogging systems and red lights all over it with the snakes living in the centre so drop by and have a look at it, i'll upload some pics of it being bulit when get a minute.
the crocodile is growing rapidly and is nearly always on show now hes gained alot of confidence, we are starting work on the crocodile room after the new year.
We are open on new years day this year so be sure to drop by and see the crocodile and all the other cool animals we have in at the minute.
YEMEN CHAMELEONS NOW ON OFFER AT £45 EACH, THEY ARE WELL GROWN JUVENILES, MALES AND FEMALES AVAILABLE.
1/12/11
There is now a Crocodile at the world of fish and pets, as many will know we now have our baby spectacled Caiman in the shop, we should be drawing out our name for him from the competition we ran last week. He is growing extremely fast and seems to be eating everything in sight.
we are currently hardrearing three baby african greys in the shop, they are eight weeks old at the moment so will be sale in january, we brought them into the shop for the first time this week and they seem to love all the attention that they get off everyone they really are little cuties.
As christmas is now approaching we are super busy in the shop with new stock arriving almost daily including massive orders of tarantulas, royal python morphs, leopard tortoises, hermans, red foots and many others.
We are proud to say that we have just had a clutch of flap neck chameleon eggs hatch, these are quite rare to captive breed these so its quite an achevement for us to have 59 of the little lovelies. They are in the shop now but are not for sale for around 8 weeks as they are very tiny
we are also now holding any stock, including livestock, setups e.t.c until christmas when paid in full.
Here are a few pics of the Croc and we also have aStingray in the shop!!!!!!
18/10/11
Winter is fast approching it seems this week ,we are thankful for it being so warm in the shop
I have managed to breed my rare short tailed Opossums again for the 2nd year runing there are only a handful of these bred in the u.k each year due to the problems associated with the mating of them so we are very pleased to of managed it again
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We have some exciting news to report we are having a baby Crocodile in the next few weeks , we have been in talks about how to do it for months now but we are finally nearly ready for him , we are having a Spectacled Caiman he is about 6 inches long at the moment so will be in a 6ft enclosure till he gets a bit bigger then we will be building an extension on the back of our fish room for him/her to live in , we are just waiting on the enclosure being finished as we have custom designed it for him then he will be on his way to us , there will be loads of pics of him to put on here so watch this space!
22/09/11
After a very busy summer we are now settling into a new routine with Saturdays proving to be still very busy, we have had loads of new Lizards in this week some really intresting ones like Desert Horned Lizards these are very spiky little Lizards that eating tiny foods like ants ,micro crickets they have a tiny intestine so need very small sized food they are very fun to watch, we have also had in some nice Panther Chameleons they are about 4 -5 months old so are a really good size and starting to show some colours now .We've also had some nice snakes in last week some nice morph Retics , Burmese Pythons etc.
19/08/11
School holidays are in full force we are mega busy in the shop every week we seem to be breaking more records with customers coming in every week .
We now have baby Parrots in the shop we have some red lored Amazons that are 9 weeks old and a baby Hahns Macaw 12 weeks old so we now spend hours every day playig with them and feeding them, the Amazons still have a bit of baby food spoon fed to them every day its a very messy buisness
we are now stocking loads for Parrots too including a huge range of Parrot toys and foods we stock a wide range of pellet foods and also alot of Rob Harvey products including all the soaking seeds and sugar cane and palm nuts
We have loads of new snakes in at the moment including Burmese Pythons , blood Pythons, , Dwarf Boas, loads of different morphs of Corn snakes etc.
06/07/11
We'll we've been open 3 weeks now and it is going extremly well the shop has been mega busy esp on weekends, we have met loads of new people the new frontage is certainly pulling more new customers in . We have had photographers in yesterday for the Solihull Observer so should have piece in there about us soon, we also have the Solihul News people coming out to do a piece on us next week.
Everyone seems to be loving the new shop and all its theming, it seems to be doing what we wanted and people are amazed how different it is from any other shop
17/6/11
Wow its been a hectic busy week we're still trying to get used to the new shop we have lost so many things i put them up safe and now carn't find anything, there is soo many things to do now with loads more mouths to feed and areas to keep clean its such a big shop we have had tohave walkie talkies which are taking a while for some to learn how to use!!
Our new address is 2268-2270 coventry rd same post code B26 3jr we still haven't got the phone line up but have managed to divert calls to my mobile but i'm afraid there is no debit card machine for a little while
Here are a few pics but please come and have a look
13/06/11
TODAY WE OPENED OUR NEW DOORS ON THE NEW SHOP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally we made it and are open and we're still alive very very tired but pleased
Hope you all come down and have a look around there is loads to see , we have a bird and mammal room with the Aqutics and all Reptile down bottom of the first shop
Lots of new animals coming in the next few weeks to fill all the new vivs , this week we have coming in some baby Frilled Dragons, baby green tree Python, lots of baby Royals Mountain Horned Dragons, some very pretty BlueTongue Skinks and also some Horned Frogs oh and some electric blue Gecko's
So a very busy first week with we hope lots of customers coming in , we will be having abig openining weekend probably around begining of July when all the new animals are in we will have loads of special prices only for that weekend on livefoods, fish, animals , will have loads of animals for you to hold and look at ,our Burmese Python will be coming down to have pics taken with she is pretty big now prob around 12 ft long plus loads more exotics to play with
PLEASE NOTE OUR PHONE LINE IS NOT IN AT OUR NEW SHOP YET SO PLEASE BEAR WITH US TILL ITS INSTALLED SHOULD BE THIS WEEK SO AT MOMENT WE HAVE NO DEBIT MACHINE AND NO PHONE LINE ANY ENQUIRIES THRU EMAILS TILL THEN PLEASE
29/05/11
Wow its been a month since i was last on we're nearly there probably about another 2 weeks to go we think till the new shop opens its doors!!
We have been working every hour possible and trying to keep the old shop going too so we are very very stressed and tired there is just not enough hours in the day to get everything done and keep up with all the animals aswell !!
We are just taking the Fish tanks round today the animals all went last weekend and all the rodents have gone too so the old shop looks a bit empty and also very old looking now compared with the new one
Anyway enough warbling on here is what you all want the pics, these were taken a couple of weeks ago so already looks different but you'll have to wait for those
This is the Bosc's new enclosure if he behaves himself in there as he's climbing out at the moment !
This is the Tortoise tables
The reptile area
When all my plants had been delivered, also Zeus (the Macaw) cage has arrived
Bosc in his enclosure
This is the start of Geerge the Iguana's new viv, this is a waterfall Brendan is building in his tank
With the front going on not a great pic as it looks small but its huge its 4 feet deep!!
22/04/11
The new grafitti has been finished on the outside shutters of new shop the sign is in the process of being removed and re- made here are the newest pics
This is how the front used to look
and how its changed!!!
15/04/11
At last i can tell you all the good news we are moving !!!!!, don't worry its not far only about 4 shops along from where we are now to the shop that used to be Bevan Blinds .
We have alot of building work to do on the new shop we have to make a corridor to attach the store room to the actual shop as its freestanding at the moment all the walls in the shop are coming down , toilets/ kitchens to be knocked out and re done but it should be worth it the new shop will be just under 2000 sq ft so more than double our old shop and will be one of the biggest reptile shops around!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have big plans for the new shop , we will be having a huge dry goods area carrying loads more of everything, some huge exciting zoo enclosure type vivs ,Zeus is having a big aviry built for him to play in, a big pond dry goods area with outside area for pond plants , more small animals and parrots and birds also .
We hope to be open by whitsun weekend so around the end of may if everything goes to plan
I will try to keep you all updates as to what is going on each week if i can find the time as its ridicoulously busy at the moment trying to do 2 shops at once.
we will be open in old shop as usual thruout all the new re-fit
so here is the first of the news on new shop
All walls that are coming down to be taken out, clearing exisiting stock left in shop, starting on extension to rear of shop , ordering all the new vivs and new sign and graffiti work that is being done on the shutters at front of shop
here are the pics remember there is 2 shops together
this is the left side all this is going to be dry goods
This isn't a great pic as it looks small on it but it is really big this will be the reptile area
These pics are hard to see at the moment as the walls are not down yet but this will be the fish room
This will be the bird and small animal room
Again bird and small animal room
so there you go let us know what you all think
31/12/10 (new years eve!!!!)
we will be opening on new years day 10- 4pm.
Very busy here at the moment as our baby short tailed opossums are now ready to go to their new homes along with the variety of other babies at the moment such as the lemmings, hedgehogs, duprasi and many more. we have had a clutch of stunning painted dragons hatch here this week which is a first for this speces at the shop and they are gorgeous.
10/11/10
With winter fast approaching we are now planning or Xmas it seems like it will be a busy year this year with spider sales getting more every month. We should hopefully have alot of our bred Mammals ready for then we will have baby Lemmings these are lovely little animals and quite friendly reaaly fun to watch them doing their tunnels, alsobaby Duprasi or fat tailed Gerbils although they don't really look like Gerbils there are really cute with big thick pink beaver like tails they are very friendly and great fun to watch they love to dig!! Lots of baby Hedhehogs will be ready too here are a few pics of some that will be ready all are Pinto coloured
10/10/10
We have been having another move round of the shop (not again i hear you say!) but yes we are again trying to find more space in the shop we have now moved all the small rodents to opposite the till , we have quite alot of rodents in now the best being Aftrician Pygmy Hedgehogs we have 1 male and 1 female chocolate Algerian in , we also have lots of very cute baby dumbo rats some lovely colours, baby beige female chinchilla, Gerbils, baby Syrian long hair Hamsters , Chipmunks .
We should soon have hopefully Steppe Lemmings, baby Duprasi , satin Mice and more!!
We are breeding all these species ourselves so fingers crossed for them
20/9/10
Business is steady at the moment as it usually is when the kids go back to school with lots of beardies and geckos being sold at the moment also the rats are selling well.
We have some baby hamsters been born last week and lots more dart frog eggs off our azureus pair
06/09/10
Now in to Sptember and it certainly feels like it!, Check out the spider page as we have loads more new stock just come in lots of big huge adult Tarantulas .
We also have some lovely rats for sale including blues and Rex's and blacks.
We have some rare husky Isabella roborovski hamsters been born these are a lovely dwarf species and are a rare colour compared to the normal browns usually seen in this species.
14/8/10
We now are stocking some rodents in the shop we have some lovely Chipmunks in whites and browns, some winter white Hamsters these are really cute and friendly, some mice, gerbils and Kyle is breeding some of his rats , he has some lovely colours in his collection he has baby rex's at the moment (curly coated) these are very cute and some are coming out quite bald this is what happens to rats bred with the rex gene they can sometimes have bald areas which make the rat look really weird!! if you imagine a fur head no fur on body but fur on legs .
We had a few orders from Germany in last week and got 4 of the p.metallica tarantulas in this is one one spder we get asked about the most every day so are really lucky to have them they are expensive though at £110 for a 1inch sling but so pretty and rare you can see why!!
A few pics of different things
This is Cindy our Pygmy Hedgehog she has had a baby which will be ready in a couple of weeks time, if your interested please contact the shop as this is something we do not stock at shop but do as a hobby .
The baby is a female and her colours look to be a brown algerian pinto - she looks really white in pic but has some brown in her coat now she is about 2-3 weeks old in pic , all babies will be regestered with the UK APH registry upon leaving
This is a Tree Shrew we keep and are trying to see if they will breed , it is a very rare exotic to keep and have been searching for a male for our female for a while we managed to track one down up north and are trying them together , there is no documentation on how to keep these let alone breed them in captivity they originate from Malaysia and Singapore are about the size of a Squirrel so keep watching for news on them
We will be shut on sunday 15/8/10 sorry for any inconvience
29/7/10
So the school holidays have arrived again!!, We are as usual busy running around trying to do everything!!, We have loads more projects on going at the moment with lots of new plans for the shop in the next few months so keep watching this site .
We are really struggling for space at the shop as we want to stock everything and theres just not enough space, how we ever managed before the extension was built i really don't know.
On the breeding side we have lots of eggs off our dart frogs in the shop so fingers crossed they hatch into tadpoles and grow into more little poison arrow's .
Kyle has loads of new egg sacs on the way with a avicularia metallica one due to hatch next week we haven't bred this species before so should be intresting .
We have had one baby Pygmy Hedgehog been born a couple of weeks ago they must be one of the cutest babies around will put pics on when its out of the nest
07/07/10
As many of our customers may know we have kept pygmy hedgehogs for a number of years now, but are now thinking about selling exotic mammals in the shop. We have been purchasing more hedgehogs for breeding and also some short tailed oppossums. We are wondering what peoples thoughts are on these please feel free to email us with your opinions.
Have had some nice beardies hatch today they are normal cross fire and ice. another Trinidad chevron sac has been produced!! there will be a large order of spiders arriving next week including the spectacular p.metallica. Feel free to email me for a list of whats coming.
18/6/10
Been another busy week this week with Tarantulas at home and at the shop ! , we had a few new things in , all of the p. metallica's have now sold so am trying to get some more asap these sold really well they are the new must have spider think Brendan's new tattoo of one helps as it looks really good on his hand and shows the colour they get to really well
The next Trindad Chevrons are now slings so have some more ready for sale soon at £5 each , there was exactly 100 in the egg sac but they were much bigger slings than last time some are nearly double in size from the last time!
We will be shut this sunday as we always attend the I.H.S shows, have been members of this for a while now and is nice to catch up with friends and have a look round.
6/6/10
Half term is finally over , can get back into our routine again without having to swap duties at the shop between me and Brendan.
We have a new offer on the baby Beardies at the moment as we have quite a few at the moment with more due to hatch soon they are on at £30 EACH or £10 off when brought with full set up .
Have managed to get a few pics too of firstly some of the baby Taratulas
These are baby Salmon pinks not hatched into slings yet still 2nd istar
These are baby Trindad Chevron's again at 2nd istar stage and here is mom
The baby Emperor Scorpions , just waiting for them to shed before they go up for sale
Also a pic of now how the spider area looks with 3 cabinets and on top of them now full so will have to try and fit another cabinet in again !!
And to finish one of my frog tanks with the Poison Arrow frogs in it
28/5/10
You can tell spring/summer is here everything is having babies and mating at the moment we have lots of berdie eggs in incubator ,crestie eggs, python and corn snake eggs on the way, baby frogs, loads of baby spiders with loads more egg sacs due any day .
Spider and Scorpion sales are still going up dramatically with more and more new customers every week alot from people telling their friends and family of us so that is really good, Kyle is busy with loads of slings in the incubators we have more Trindad Chevron, Salmon pinks, h. gigas, p.rufalata , coming very soon hopefully singapore blues, red rumps, brazilian blacks, natal bird eater, p. formosa, a.metallica and we are breeding some very sought after species the pamphobeteus sp. machala and pamphobeteus vespertinus see pics of them below;
29/4/10
Thank goodness we've had some warmer weather at last we've managed to send out all the Tarantulas that were waiting to go out to customers but couldn't due to the overnight frosts, Tarantulas are still probably our best seller with more and more being sent out thru the post to people all over the country
The baby Chameleons are eating so much now we are struggling to produce enough flies for them all they should be ready for their new homes in a couple more weeks
Our Emperor Scorpion gave birth yesterday to we think at least 14 huge babies we saw her giving birth to the last few , their all now on her back they are such a funny sight all on her will try and get some pics up of her with them all
The local neighbour hood is all discussing about the new supermarket development set to open opposite us at Severn Trent and Focus it looks really good and should be of benefit to all local treaders in the area with a huge free shopping carpark for all and new walkways and pedestrian crossings for the area
suzanne
12/4/10 An eventful week!!
Kyle has had the trinidad chevron female, the mother to our current slings now double clutched!!! and he also has another one ready to pop. we have visited the newark show that took place on sunday 11th april. it was a really good show and kyle was lucky enough to pick up two adult female singapore blues to pair up with his mature male so hopefully we should have our own singapore slings in the next few months.
our crested geckos also laid us two lovely big eggs this week and we now have 37 chameleons hatched out, they are everywhere and already growing so fast they should be available in the next 6-7 weeks.
4/4/10o
Happy Easter to all our customers we have been open all over the Easter period and are open tomorrow (monday ) 10 till 4pm .
Our baby Chameleons have now hatched we have around 30 out with about another 10 or so to hatch , the Corn snakes have been breeding too so lots of new snakes hopefully soon.
We now have had our first pond fish in for this season we have some young Koi's , pink Orfe, Shubunkins and some long nosed Sturgeon to start off with , its been a late start to the pond season this year but hopefully should be starting now
This is our new Dart Frog tank at home
What do you think of that?we have not put the frogs in yet hopefully they are coming this week.Anyway back to the shop,we have had the first amphib's in,Whites tree frogs,Chubby frogs,Fire salamander,Fire belly toads and newts and some poision arrow frogs [ dendrobats.tincs] im sure if Suzanne has her way you can expect alot more to come.
Hope you will all come and take a look at our new look shop.
thanks Brendan
17.2.10
Hi everyone hope you are all well ,and your pets too. Been a busy half term week so far, We have had lots of new visitors in the shop, Kyle and Suzanne have been in their element this week!!
We are waiting on a large delivery of Tarantulas that are coming in the end of the week including some really rare species - we are expecting a busy weekend as quite a few are already reserved for!!
07/03/10
We never seem to get the time to come on here and do a blog do we
We have had a really good last 2 weeks they have probably been our busiest for Tarantulas and Reptiles since we started, We have sold loads of Tarantulas from our last delivery , we seem to be sending more and more through the post these days we just need the warmer weather to come as its really risky to send out with all this cold weather
We had our Baby Fire and Ice x Americian red Beardies hatch we lost one shortly after hatching but the other 2 are doing really weel and eating loads!!
Kyle has been busy breeding loads of Tarantulas we hopefully have 2 gravid p.rufilata , 2 p.cambredgei, 2 h.gigas, 1 p.murinus, so we be busy in the next following months
We seem to be having more and more new customers coming in alot are from recommendations from friends which is really nice and thanks to all our customers for doing this it means alot to have people think highly of us , We unfortunatly have also had alot of people in that have been given very bad advice from other shops to the point of being sold wrong products that could be detremential to the animals health , we always advise people to do as much research before purchasing an animal but we are always here to help and offer advice if needed
hope to see you soon
suzanne
15/3/10
We are now on facebook too so please come and chat to us on it you can either tpre in theworldoffishandpets or suzanne shemmans to find us , we've had lots of people asking us to do this so should keep us even busier!!
We had loads more Tarantulas in last week with more due in again this week they seem to be our biggest seller at the moment .
Weather is finally set to get better so loads of Spiders will be sent out this week .
Pond season is nearly on us so I expect we'll be busy with all the pond supplies like last year
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