Tessa’s Reptile Services

25/08/2026

You should never steal an animal 🤦🏽‍♀️ hope that snake is being cared for

29/07/2026

Unless they start getting jail times , people will keep trying to poach

A New South Wales man has been fined $31,000 after attempting to illegally smuggle 65 native reptiles from Western Australia.

The Cook Labor Government is continuing to be tough on wildlife smugglers and anyone involved in the illegal trade of our native species.

The smuggling of native wildlife is cruel. Many of the animals die in transit as they are bound, deprived of food and water or otherwise mistreated.

If you witness suspicious activity that may involve the illegal capture or smuggling of native wildlife, please report it to the Wildcare Helpline on (08) 9474 9055.

Thank you to the Wildlife Officers from the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions who investigated this matter and their law enforcement partners across Australia who collaborated with them to ensure this successful prosecution.

28/07/2026

Thank you to the staff at Padbury Pharmacy for kindly donating heaps of medical supplies to me lately, I’ve been dividing up the supplies, taking what I need and passing the rest onto wildlife rescues in need of supplies.

The masks, gowns, chlorohexidine, needles etc will help so many animals both scaled, feathered and furry so please know that we are extremely grateful for your support. If anyone who works in the medical or pharmacy field can help, we are always on the lookout for expired “sterile” supplies, as we can still use them despite being expired.

We hate seeing waste, and we desperately always need medical supplies in regard to sharps, syringes, fluids etc all the time. Please pm me if you can help

18/07/2026

Um Recfishwest you should be ashamed posting this uneducated crap. Our wildlife in our urban lake systems have NEVER been under as much pressure from invasive pests, road water run off, urban encroachment and our wildlife deserve protection in the tiny pockets of lakes and reserves we’ve left them in this urban locked design of Perth.
Freshwater Turtles target pest fish species and Dpird employ techniques to control their pest fish numbers.

Why would a professional organisation like this support rec fishing in our local lakes and reserves when lazy anglers are leaving line, traps and hooks every day in our lakes causing injuries to our birds and turtles blows my mind.

We are becoming so entitled in society that we don’t even realise there is a place for everything, it just seems that if we want to do something we should be entitled to do it.

Does anyone in society actually listen anymore when they’re told no? Or are we gonna be that society that when someone tells you to say no , you are just going to go around the rules and do what we want anyway ?

We aren’t a society of manipulating teens who don’t understand boundaries and do what we want ? Or is that what we are becoming?

15/07/2026

I met with Caitlin Collins MLA with of Woodvale Kangaroos Page Coordinator Suzanne Apps back in April to discuss some of the safely issues on Whitfords avenue that locals and Kangaroos that move between Pinnaroo and Craigie Leisure centre were having , we've had a number of kangaroos killed or left injured and seen many cars damaged.

The speed of drivers and poor lighting were two of the major issues discussed along with the new craigie leisure centre / pinnaroo entrance road changes with the proposed roundabout and what measures they can put in place to have better local kangaroo management when the new infrastructure is put in.

Its great to see that she was able to help with one of the important issues along this road , well done Caitlin for being able to get this safety issue resolved for local residents , fingers crossed as we try work through the other issues facing this road , especially with it facing increased traffic in future with the Ocean Reef Marina and other housing density increases coming around our local areas.

Good news! Last night Western Power installed additional solar heads on EVERY streetlight pole along the stretch of Whitfords Avenue between Craigie Leisure Centre and the Mitchell Freeway.

Western Power are also prioritising fixing the permanent streetlights and I will have more to update on this soon.

Thank you to the residents who raised this with me!

15/07/2026

600lb Life in Frog form 💚🐸 yes I enable my frogs with cricket treats 🤣 by the container full

15/07/2026

Thank you Kandy and Guy for my supply of free quails and rats recently, Kodi , Marlee and Lilly my Olives are pretty happy about it as you can see 🤣

Olive pythons are formidable, food-driven snakes capable of consuming exceptionally large prey in the wild —including wallabies, small mammals, fruit bats, and even freshwater crocodiles. Prey opportunities can be scarce, so they eat large prey items when the opportunity arises to counter for this lack of availability of food at times.

To properly manage their diet in captivity, I feed mine a range of items that comprise of chicks to young chickens, young unwanted roosters, quails, ducklings , guinea pigs, rats and the occasional rabbit as some are lower or higher in fat and it enriches my snakes by giving them a varied diet.

15/07/2026

The little foot skin gloves in my story were from a species of gecko I own called Nephrurus cinctus or the Northern Banded Knob-tailed Gecko, he had just completed a full shed of his skin.

They are a small, terrestrial gecko native to the arid and semi-arid regions of Western Australia, particularly the Pilbara.

It is distinguished by its five dark dorsal bands, prominent skin bumps (tubercles), and a short, flattened knobbed tail.

As a strictly nocturnal species, they spend the daytime hidden in burrows or beneath rocks pr debris to conserve moisture, emerging at dusk to forage for insects, spiders, and small scorpions.

Nephrurus cinctus was formerly considered a subspecies of N. wheeleri, but they are now two separate distinct species.

The two species differ in a few key ways:
Bands: Nephrurus wheeleri has 4 dark bands, while N. cinctus has 5 (with the neck band often broken).
Markings: Nephrurus wheeleri has dark markings on the snout and above the mouth, which are absent in N. cinctus.
Size & Texture: N. cinctus is about 9mm larger on average and has larger, more prominent tubercles.

04/07/2026

It’s not only facilities that don’t receive funding , none of us wildlife workers receive any funding from government or councils, yet we even attend calls for them.

It’s my community around me that I’m so grateful for that keeps me going. I want the community to know that your donations mean more to myself and the other wildlife volunteers out there in the WA community than you realise.

I can’t do the work I do without the community’s support, I wish the government valued our contribution the same way.

A fb post thanking us yearly during volunteer week just isn’t enough anymore, we are facing more displaced and injured wildlife than ever with this government push to clear all the bush areas around Perth and the south west for housing .