Something wrong with your exotic pet?

General pet sites treat reptiles, small mammals, birds, amphibians, and invertebrates as an afterthought — one paragraph on care, a stock photo, and a lot of recycled advice that hasn't been updated in years. Exotic and small-pet husbandry is a genuinely evolving field: UVB recommendations for leopard geckos have changed, substrate advice for bearded dragons has changed, and "common knowledge" about an all-seed parrot diet has been reversed by current avian veterinary guidance. ExoKeeper exists to keep up with that, one sourced, dated parameter at a time.

Every species page traces its husbandry numbers back to a named source — the Merck Veterinary Manual, ARAV, AAV, the House Rabbit Society, the British Tarantula Society, and similar reputable references — with a last-checked date, refreshed on an annual cadence. Where reputable sources genuinely disagree, that disagreement is shown honestly rather than smoothed over into one tidy answer, and dangerous myths (loose calcium sand for juvenile bearded dragons, an all-seed diet for parrots) are flagged directly rather than repeated.

None of this replaces a vet. Every problem page, disease pillar, and the diagnose tool carry the same clear line: this is educational information, not a diagnosis, and anything acute deserves a same-day call to a qualified exotic-animal vet. The goal is to help you recognize what's normal, what's fixable with a husbandry change, and what genuinely needs professional care — and to know the difference before it becomes an emergency.

ExoKeeper is built one species and one problem at a time rather than launched as a finished encyclopedia, which means the roster keeps growing — check the species index and diagnose hub periodically if the animal or symptom you're looking for isn't covered yet.