I've been keeping for a bit over a decade now. I started in the mid 90s. There's no denying that the herp industry has come a long way since then (thank god), but there's still some stuff to improve on, particularly regarding husbandry tools. I'll throw this question to the winds (and to kingsnake's vast leadership): What products do you want to see in the herp industry?
I've got a pretty lengthy list

A decent hibernaculum. Some people are lucky enough to be able to chill a whole building, or a room, to induce hibernation. Most of us are not, particularly for colubrids that need chilly temps. My wife would kill me if the house was 50 degrees in the morning. I'm using a wine cooler but it's not perfect; the footprint is too small for anything bigger than shoe boxes, it doesn't easily get down below about 55, and there's wasted space due to the half shelf in back that they all seem to have. I could do a fridge but all the ones I find don't go above about 38 which is too cold.

Decent cages for larger lizards. We've got many more options for snakes than we used to have, but nothing that's really good for even mid sized varanids or tegus. Something that has a decent footprint, a mostly solid top, and can hold 1-2' of dirt (say 5'x2'x3', with a sliding door halfway up?). It woudn't work for the really big boys--waters, niles, etc. but it'd be nice to have something that could house, say, a sav or a gold tegu or something. There's stock tanks but A: They're ugly as hell and B: they require extensive modifications and I'm awful at those.

Food items. These have a come a long way but there's a lot longer way to go. I can buy chicks by the thousands from rodent pro (and do) but I don't know a major supplier that sells larger chickens. There's quail but they're expensive as heck. I'd also like to see more available fish; there's plenty of awesome piscivorous snakes out there and I'd love to see a better selection of fish (frozen or live) for them. We farm raise plenty of fish for human consumption; can we get some whole tilapia maybe, in different sizes? Or trout, or whatever's healthy and easy to grow? Open up a whole new world of available species perhaps. That said, the availability of insects has blossomed. I'd like, perhaps, to see some mollusk available as feeders more readily (live snails are a treat for some lizards).

Better hides. This is an issue for larger snakes in particular. Corkbark works fine for mid sized colubrids and boids, but my retics still want to hide. Right now I'm using a modified garland holder thingy for them (I have to buy more later...Home depot only had one, I need 5 more). Something built big enough for a 10' or 15' snake to hide in.

Substrate. Seriously, the best substrate I can buy right now is cypress mulch from the garden center. This hasn't changed in 10+ years either. The major companies all sell mulch (and I'm sure it's safe) but they want something like 10 bucks for a bag barely big enough for a 10 gallon tank. Yeah right. Some work on that would be good. Get us something that's affordable, comes in 50-100 lb bags, that holds burrows so I can use it with geckos, pits, lampropeltis, etc. There's the Excavator stuff that zoo-med (I think) puts out but again, way too expensive.


The real kicker is herpers have found work arounds for all these things, but they all require additional work, and/or are suboptimal. We (or at least I) would like to have purpose built products that are easier ot set up/use and address the shortcomings of jury rigged solutions.

What say ya'll? What would you like to see?