Advisor & Instructor
Carl Braden
Working keeper and field professional. Long-tenured contributor to the hobby's standards and bloodline programs.
Working keepers, breeders, vets, and field professionals who teach the courses, run the live sessions, and answer the questions.
Working keeper and field professional. Long-tenured contributor to the hobby's standards and bloodline programs.
Master keeper. Heloderma husbandry, breeding strategy, BCI redtail care, naturalistic enclosure design.
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Hands-on iguana keeper. Imports, husbandry, behavior, naturalistic care.
Beginner pathways. Welfare-first foundations, real-world enclosure design, behavior reading.
Hands-on breeding work. Husbandry standards, project planning, and morph projects.
Biologist, educator, and reptile communicator. Bridging academic biology and the working keeper community.
Practicing herpetological veterinarian. Quarantine protocols, parasite control, diagnostics, welfare-first reptile medicine.
Herpetology academic. Field ecology, population biology, and the academic side of working with reptiles in the wild.
Pioneering monitor breeder. Decades of work on Varanus husbandry, breeding, and naturalistic enclosure design.
Field biologist and crocodilian specialist. Wild herpetofauna, field documentation, and conservation work.
Working keeper and breeder. Specialized husbandry, project planning, and long-horizon collection management.
Bios are early-access drafts; full credentials and photographs appear as each expert onboards.