Plaistow, New Hampshire · Founded 2001
New England's exotic pet resource center.
A family-friendly exotic pet store for first-time keepers and lifelong herpers. Meet socialized reptiles, amphibians and small animals, see our 8,000-gallon well-water aquarium showroom, and take home the right setup the first time.
Plaistow, New Hampshire
Walk in. Meet them.
A family-friendly exotic pet store in Plaistow, NH. The animals are the show.
The aquarium showroom
8,000 gallons of well water
A wall of water.
Nano fish, freshwater shrimp and inverts, with new stock every week.
Red-bellied piranha, Jinsha shrimp, baby turtles, and Bubba.
Just in · from our Instagram
Meet the animals. Socialized and ready to meet you.
Female BCC Guyana Red Tail Boa — Seeking Her Retirement Home
Pac-Man Frog 🌿
Blue Poison Dart Frog 🌿 Dendrobates tinctorius azureus
Albino Striped Kenyan Sand Boa 💛Ambassador animal · not for sale
Madagascar Ground Boa 🌿
Reverse Wide Stripe California Kingsnake 🌿ReelSquishy Campbell’s Hamster 🐹 This cutie is in store now 🩷9+ more animals
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Campbell’s Dwarf Hamster ✨
Sinaloan Milk Snake ❤️ It’s striking coloration mimics the venomous coral snake, which tricks predators into avoiding it despite it being completely harmless.
Golden hour 🍯 San Matias Rosy Boa ✨ReelRex bunnies are here ✨ Munching away 😍ReelHairless Dumbo Rat 🩷ReelRedfoot Tortoises are in store ❤️ReelRegal Jumping Spider getting in the Halloween spirit 🎃👻🍁ReelHe’s a fast eater! Baby Sulcata Tortoise 🌱ReelTHE GHOST MANTIS 👻 Lots of creepy crawlies in store now 🎃
Meet the keepers
Raised by hand.
Adam works the mangrove snakes alongside Kevin, and our keepers handle the animals every day.
That's why ours come to you calm, eating and used to people.
The venomous room · NERD
Look. Don't touch.
King cobras, Gaboon vipers and more. Kevin McCurley and the NERD team keep some of the most dangerous snakes in the world, and you can see them on display.
“I'm going to really lose myself in the wonderment of the animal, but not the spectacle of me.”
Kevin McCurley, NERD
“Don't make your mistakes. Always practice protocol. Use your tools. Have somebody sometimes spot you.”
Kevin McCurley, NERD
“You have to respect them and if you lose respect of them, you will potentially have problems.”
Kevin McCurley, NERD
Display only · venomous animals are worked with hooks and tongs by trained staff
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Hands-on experiences
Get hands-on.
Have a hands-on experience interacting with animals. Meet them, hold them, and ask our staff anything.
Pet supplies
Everything for the setup.
From ball pythons to bearded dragons and tarantulas, we have the habitat setup to house your pet.
Shop enclosures, vivariums & cagesLive and frozen prey, live and freeze-dried bugs, pinkies, flakes, pellets and supplements.
Shop feeding & nutritionCrickets, roaches, fruit flies, hornworms, waxworms and mealworms, plus frozen mice and rats from pinky to adult.
Shop feedersBasking and UVB bulbs, dome fixtures, ceramic heaters, heat mats, thermometers and hygrometers.
Shop heating & lightingSubstrates, hides, vines, basking rocks, backgrounds, driftwood, mopani and live plants.
Shop substrates, habitat & decorTanks, filters, water conditioners, decor, food and live aquatic plants.
Shop aquarium supplies
Coming soon
Order ahead. Pick up curbside.
Place your order on our website and our team will pull it and put it together for you. In a hurry? Be in and out. Want to stay a while? Do your shopping first, spend your time with the animals and our newest arrivals, then grab your supplies on the way out.
- 01Order online
- 02We pull & pack it
- 03Curbside or in-store pickup
Follow the store. New animals land on Instagram first.
Follow @zoo.creatures
Every department + the creepy crawlies
Lovable, quirky and beautiful pets for sale.
Reptiles, amphibians, fish, small mammals and invertebrates. Snakes, lizards and amphibians can also be bought online through NERD — ship it or pick it up here.
The house — the lizard in the CReptiles
Two full reptile rooms: captive-bred snakes from NERD, lizards, turtles and tortoises.
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The frogAmphibians
Dart frogs, tree frogs, pacman frogs, toads, newts and salamanders.
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The fishAquatics
An 8,000-gallon well-water showroom — new fish arrive every week.
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The sugar gliderSmall mammals
Fancy rats, fancy mice and other furry friends — hand-tame rats are our specialty.
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And the creepy crawliesInvertebrates
Tarantulas, scorpions, stick bugs, leaf bugs, mantises and isopods.
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Our parent company
Reptiles by NERD.
NERD — New England Reptile Distributors — shares our building in Plaistow and breeds most of the snakes we sell. Snakes, lizards and amphibians can be bought online through NERD and picked up here.
Animal care library
Set it up right the first time.
Care sheets from the Zoo Creatures & NERD herpetocultural library — and if you don't see your pet, ask us.
NERD tours, parties & shows
Go behind the scenes at NERD.
Private tours of the NERD breeding facility, by appointment — book at least 10 days ahead. Tours are 1 hour.
Private tour
- Up to 10 people: $300 for the first hour
- $50 per additional 30 minutes
- Additional people: $35 each, up to 15 people
* $50 convenience fee for less than one week's notice
Private tour with Kevin McCurley
Includes a venomous demonstration
- $1,000 for up to 10 people, first hour
- $500 for each additional hour
- $35 per additional person, up to 15 people
* $50 convenience fee for less than 2 weeks' scheduling notice
About Zoo Creatures
Your first exotic pet starts here. We'll help you get it right.
Watch the video and learn all about our store.
We carry a huge selection of captive-bred reptiles from NERD. Snakes, lizards and other reptiles are our specialty — and because NERD is our parent company, we have the most extensive selection of ball pythons and ball python morphs around.
We also stock live and frozen feeders and insects, fish food and supplements, habitats and decor for every kind of enclosure, and live plants for bioactive setups and aquariums.
Visit the store
Come see us
149 Plaistow RoadPlaistow, NH 03865
Just 45 minutes north of Boston
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday – Friday
- 10am – 5pm
- Saturday
- 10am – 6pm
- Sunday
- 10am – 5pm
Email ZooCreaturesPetStore@gmail.com. Drive over and talk to us — we love that.