About

What The Reptile Club is

The Reptile Club is a public institution serving reptile keepers, breeders, and the wider hobby. Its work is to set down, in durable and public form, what the hobby has otherwise kept only in private notebooks, transient channels, and the memories of individual breeders.

The Reptile Club takes the long view. Reptile breeding has, over the last forty years, produced extraordinary animals. Their lineage, the conventions by which they are described, and the editorial record of who keeps them are all worth preserving in a form that outlasts platforms and proprietors. The Reptile Club exists to do that preservation.

What The Reptile Club maintains

The Reptile Club's present work is built around records and public resources intended to outlast the platform that carries them.

The Standards. Authoritative documents on the language and practice of pedigree, identification, and registration. Each Standard is published by The Reptile Club and remains in effect until superseded by a later issue. The first, Pedigree Terms and Lineage Documentation, was adopted in May 2026. Several others are in preparation. The full library is at reptileclub.com/standards.

The Bulletin. A periodical of The Reptile Club, carrying short notices, editorial reflection, and the season ahead in the species The Reptile Club covers. Issues are dated, numbered consecutively, and remain on the public record. Read at reptileclub.com/bulletin.

The Featured Species. A long-form article on a single species in The Reptile Club's scope, refreshed annually. The current article is on the crested gecko, Correlophus ciliatus, at reptileclub.com/featured/crested-gecko.

Alongside these, The Reptile Club operates the public Registry of pedigrees, the searchable record of registered animals and the Certificates of Pedigree issued under The Reptile Club's authority. The Registry is open to anyone with Registry credits for registration and to any party for verification.

HatchLog. HatchLog is a separate recordkeeping app connected to The Reptile Club Registry. Users keep daily records in HatchLog and choose whether to submit an animal to the public Registry.

What The Reptile Club holds to

The Reptile Club's work is governed by four principles. They are written into the Registry's Compact and they shape The Reptile Club's editorial decisions on every other matter.

Independence. The Reptile Club's records and Standards are maintained by the registry itself, not by individual breeders or commercial interests. Once a record or Standard is published, neither The Reptile Club's authors nor the breeders whose work appears in those records may rewrite the public history.

Permanence. The Reptile Club's publications enter the permanent public record. Pedigrees on the Registry are not deleted when an animal changes hands or its breeder leaves the platform. Superseded issues of a Standard remain on the record alongside the issue that replaced them. A record that could be erased on demand would not be a credible one.

Our records and permanence policy is set out at reptileclub.com/permanence.

Verifiability. The Registry is fully public. No account is required to look up a Certificate of Pedigree, and verification is free for everyone, forever. The Reptile Club's Standards are likewise published openly.

Transferability. The current owner of a registered animal may change over the animal's lifetime through the Registry's transfer procedures. The producer and the lineage on file do not.

Editorial enquiries, comments on existing Standards, and suggestions for matters in preparation may be addressed to registry@reptileclub.com.

Contact

Two addresses serve The Reptile Club's correspondence:

Registry: registry@reptileclub.com · for matters concerning the Registry, the Standards, the Bulletin, the Featured Species, requests to correct a genuine error of fact, or concerns about a pedigree on the public record.

Support: support@reptileclub.com · for matters concerning the HatchLog application or any technical question not covered above.

Legal entity

The Reptile Club and HatchLog are separate products currently operated by The Reptile Club LLC, a limited liability company organized in the State of Utah, United States.