Editorial Policy

Last reviewed: August 2026 · Corrections to contact@rarepetcare.com

Bad exotic pet advice is not a harmless thing. A caresheet that gets a basking temperature wrong, or repeats a feeding schedule that was already outdated a decade ago, ends with an animal that suffers for it. That is the reason this page exists, and the reason the rules below are not flexible.

Who writes the guides

Three writers cover this site and each one takes the animals they know best, rather than whatever happens to be next in the queue. Samran Awan writes the reptile material, Zaher Khan covers birds and invertebrates, and Aurangzaib Khan handles small mammals and amphibians. Every guide carries the name of whoever produced it, and the writers page shows who covers what. We put names on guides because advice about a living animal should come from someone a reader can identify and question.

Where the care information comes from

Husbandry guidance here is built from what veterinary and specialist keeping sources already establish, not from a single caresheet passed around until nobody remembers where it started. A great deal of what circulates about exotic species is exactly that, and it is wrong in ways that matter, particularly around heating, humidity, lighting and diet.

Where reputable sources genuinely disagree about a requirement, we say they disagree rather than picking whichever answer reads most cleanly and presenting it as settled. An uncertainty stated honestly is more useful to a keeper than a confident number that turns out to be wrong for their animal.

How a guide is produced

Every guide is edited by the writer whose name goes on it before it is published, and that edit works under one rule which is not negotiable: nothing unverifiable may be presented as confirmed fact. No invented figures, no fabricated quotes, no specific temperature or dosage stated with a confidence the underlying sources do not support. Where something cannot be established, the guide says so instead of filling the gap with a sentence that reads well.

The editing pass exists mainly for the numbers. Temperature ranges, humidity levels, enclosure dimensions and feeding intervals are the parts of a caresheet that actually change an animal's life, so they get checked rather than trusted.

What we will not publish

We are not paid to recommend any breeder, retailer, product or veterinary practice, and we do not run sponsored material dressed up as editorial. Advertising on this site is placed by an ad network and neither we nor the writers choose which advertisements appear, so an advertisement is never an endorsement of what it sells.

We also will not publish dosages, medication instructions or treatment protocols for a sick animal. Nothing on this site is veterinary advice, no guide can examine your pet, and anything health related belongs with a veterinarian experienced in exotic species. The disclaimer sets that boundary out in full.

Corrections

When a guide is wrong we correct it rather than quietly removing it, and where the error was one that could have affected an animal's care we say on the page that it was corrected and when. Reports of a care figure that looks wrong are the ones we act on fastest, so tell us the guide, the specific line, and what you believe the correct answer is. Every message reaches the address at the top of this page, and corrections go to the writer whose name is on the piece.

Keeping guides current

Exotic husbandry advice does move, sometimes sharply, as better research reaches keepers. Pages that sit untouched for years are how a site quietly stops being trustworthy, so guides are revisited and the date moves when the content does. If you find something here that has stopped being true, that message is worth more to us than almost anything else you could send.