About

What the 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 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 Club exists to do that preservation.

What the Club maintains

The 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 Each Standard is published by the Club and remains in effect until superseded by a later issue.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 Club, carrying short notices, editorial reflection, and the season ahead in the species the 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 Club's scope, refreshed annually. The current article is on the crested gecko, Correlophus ciliatus, at reptileclub.com/featured/crested-gecko.

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

HatchLog. The Club also provides HatchLog, the private working app for reptile keepers and breeders. HatchLog is where users manage daily records, clutches, animals, photos, notes, and QR labels before choosing whether a record should be submitted to the public Registry.

What the Club holds to

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

Independence. The 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 Club's authors nor the breeders whose work appears in those records may rewrite the public history.

Permanence. The 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 Club's Standards are likewise published openly.

Transferability. The keeper of record on 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 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 the HatchLog application are operated by The Reptile Club LLC, a limited liability company organized in the State of Utah, United States.