Exotic Reptiles
A breeder working with lizards and tortoises, by its own listing. States it ships internationally.
Source: The business's own website (exotic-reptiles.org), read 2026-08-02
Breeders and exotic vets in Cape Town
5 businesses in Cape Town, South Africa. Each one is here because a source we name says so, and that source is linked next to it.
Keepr does not rank these businesses and takes nothing from them. A pin marked city means we have the town but not the street: check the address on the business's own site before you travel.
Breeders (2)
Breeders that state which species they produce.
Tyron's Corns & Colubridscity
A breeder working with snakes, by its own listing.
Source: The business's own website (cornsandcolubrids.co.za), read 2026-08-02
Exotic vets (3)
Veterinary practices that state they see reptiles or exotics. Opening hours are not in our data: call before you travel.
CARE - Centre for Avian, Reptiles and Exoticscity
A veterinary practice that lists reptiles, snakes, lizards and tortoises and turtles among the animals it sees, alongside birds, parrots, rabbits, rodents and ferrets, by its own listing. Opening hours are not in our data: call before you travel.
Source: The practice's own website (vet-care.co.za), read 2026-08-02
Exotic Vet Century Citycity
A veterinary practice that lists reptiles among the animals it sees, alongside birds, rabbits, rodents and wildlife, by its own listing. Opening hours are not in our data: call before you travel.
Source: The practice's own website (exoticvets.co.za), read 2026-08-02
Sharp Exotic & Small Animal Veterinary Cliniccity
A veterinary practice that lists reptiles among the animals it sees, alongside birds, rabbits and rodents, by its own listing. Opening hours are not in our data: call before you travel.
Source: The practice's own website (sharpvet.co.za), read 2026-08-02
What the year looks like outside in Cape Town
Monthly average outdoor temperature, ten years observed. This is the starting point of a room, not its temperature: a heated or air-conditioned home departs from it, and that gap is exactly the work.
21°Jan
21°Feb
20°Mar
18°Apr
16°May
14°Jun
13°Jul
13°Aug
14°Sep
17°Oct
18°Nov
20°Dec
How many months a keeper here runs added heat
All 7 of them sit above Cape Town's outdoor average every month of the year. Heat is not a winter cost here, it is a permanent one.
Months whose outdoor average in Cape Town sits below the night floor that each species' own care sheet states. Two measured numbers put side by side, nothing else: an indoor room changes the answer, and the audit is where you check yours.
| Species | Night floor its sheet states | Months below it here |
|---|---|---|
| Bearded Dragon Pogona vitticeps | 18 °C | 7 / 12 |
| Ball Python Python regius | 23 °C | 12 / 12 |
| Veiled Chameleon Chamaeleo calyptratus | 18 °C | 7 / 12 |
| Panther Chameleon Furcifer pardalis | 18 °C | 7 / 12 |
| Leopard Gecko Eublepharis macularius | 16 °C | 5 / 12 |
| Green Iguana Iguana iguana | 23 °C | 12 / 12 |
| Crested Gecko Correlophus ciliatus | 18 °C | 7 / 12 |
Species our library places in South Africa
Care sheets whose own Origin line names this country. Read from the sheet, not from a map.
- African Bullfrog / Pixie Frog Pyxicephalus adspersus — Sub-Saharan Africa (Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa); open savanna, grasslands, temporary pools
- Armadillo Girdled Lizard Ouroborus cataphractus — Western South Africa, in rock crevices and outcrops.
- Bibron's Gecko Chondrodactylus bibronii — Southern Africa: South Africa, Namibia and Eswatini, rocky arid country.
- Black House Boaedon fuliginosus — Morocco, Western Sahara, Botswana, Republic of South Africa, Savanna regions of sub-Saharan Africa from Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau
- Blue-Foot Baboon (Trapdoor) Idiothele mira — South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)
- Carnifex (ID to confirm) Cardisoma carnifex — Indo-Pacific: East Africa (Somalia to South Africa), Madagascar, the Seychelles and the western Pacific as far as French Polynesia
- Common Baboon (Harpactira) Harpactira cafreriana — South Africa (Western/Eastern Cape)
- Common fat-tailed / South African thick-tail (transvaalicus) Parabuthus transvaalicus — Southern Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique) arid scrub; import
- Giant ground Chondrodactylus angulifer — Republic of South Africa, Namibia, Botswana
- Golden Blue-Leg Baboon Harpactira pulchripes — Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Greater Horned Baboon Ceratogyrus brachycephalus — Southern Africa (South Africa / Zimbabwe region)
- Mozambique Golden Baboon Augacephalus junodi — Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe
- Ornate Varanus niloticus ornatus — Republic of South Africa (Eastern Cape etc.), Eswatini (Swaziland), Namibia, Botswana, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Malaw…
- Rear-Horned Baboon Tarantula Ceratogyrus darlingi — Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
1 more in the library.