staying away from petco and petsmart

HerpInvert.com, the brand for InterHab has been asked a few time recently to bring our lighting systems, HabaCrete and hardpan substrate that has been used for beardies, scorpions and other arid reptiles and inverts, named SavannaStrate to a large distributor of other pet industry products and DIY supplies. We have no intention of doing so. Our original and on-going intent is to offer our products to hobbyist, privatly own reptile business and so no matter how many times we're asked, the answer will always be no. Sure, with supplying one large chain store distributor we would make a large amount of profit, be a common name like ZooMed but that would not be a direct benefit to the end user. We do continue to carry the same hopes and plans to create good relationships with vendors that frequent reptile shows, the private owner that now sell's their captive breed herps and inverts online and to online retailers that have grown but still allow a person to speak to the owner.
If you're a hobbyist turning a profit by selling your pet's offspring, supplies and have an interest in doing business with us, HerpInvert.com, we'll always be open to doing so.
If you're a salesperson interested in bring the next best thing to the industry and are employeed by a "chain store" vendor or pet product supplies, please do not contact us.
We are willing to do consignment after the first intial order, for a net 10 billing on our dry goods, lighting systems but not cages. Our cages are time consuming to build. With the steps we take to ensure any reptile, amphibian or invert housed in them recieves the best in husbandy, as well as creating a quality hardwood waterproofed wood or glass enclosure from our fully functional woodshop, we can not build them fast enough to supply even the local demand. That is why all InterHab terrariums and HerpInvert vivariums are special order with up to 4 weeks to produce.
We do offer a wood cage kit though that has some of the same features that can be shipped. Our standard reptile vivarium enclosures are offered only to the northern california market and pick up only at our office.

HabaCrete, SavannaStrate and other dry goods are ready to be sold as we have a large inventory, proper tracking and fullfillment programs in place. We hope you'll give our products a try and see the changes we've made. Samples of our vivarium supplies are available upon request.

Happy New Year!

Added vivariumtopsites.com to our blog

HabaCrete vivarium mortar has become on of our most succesful products for the DIY vivarium builder for construction of hardscapes. HabaCrete vivarium mortar replaces an older product we used years ago for many reasons. Mostly due to it's strength, workability and it's non-toxic use in vivariums, arachnovariums and palidariums.

We developed HabaCrete by addressing the issues in the reptile and amphibian hobbyist markets and their issues with finding a safe, easy to use product that doesn't need sealing, waterproofing and has the strength needed to build vivariums.

HabaCrete is also the only product of the HerpInvert brand line of products offered by InterHab that has been the hardest to keep on the shelf. Like all of our products we manage the whole production process our selves from recieveing the raw product to bagging and shipping. Unlike our cages, substrates and other DIY vivarium supplies, it's also been the most complicated product with regards to distribution and meeting the supply and demand. With a large financial backing and the ability to hire an accounting person we feel strongly that the issues with logistics are over. HabaCrete is now available for timely order fullfillment. InterHab now has enough constant inventory to fill online, distributor and retail sales. Our new facility offers us more room for storing 1000 individual 5lb retail ready items of HabaCrete and will keep this running inventory at all times. HerpInvert has also been given enough power to process orders daily which means we now ship wednesday and saturday of each week to online orders, distributors and our retail petshops across the lower 48 states, canada and the uk.

HabaCrete brand vivarium mortar is a great product. It has a lower pH, is non-toxic when dry and can be cast, sculpted or used to bond wood and rocks. We use it over rigid foam but have used it over expanding foam too, we just choose to use the other as it's faster for us to cut the foam, silicone the layers up and the use the HabaCrete to create rock faces, burrow entrances and caves, ponds, water falls and more, in a more timely manner. In most cases, we can go start to finish in less then one day. That means we cut and fix our foam to the enclosure, rock it up, and color in in less then 4 hours. It's safe to use all in one day.

A product this good shouldn't be forgotten just becuase of the development issues only in the area of shipping. Contact HerpInvert for more information.