Breeding is a go!

I am getting ready to pair my snakes up. I got the heat back on. Feeding will resume very soon and then it down to business. I bought a web cam so that (hopefully) I can share the hatching experience with everyone. Stay tuned.

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Week number 2 using Excavator

So far so good using this new Product from Zoo Med. One of the problems with using plain sand is IMPACTION. Which if left untreated will lead to death. Elvis has been eliminating on a regular basis. He is also enjoyng the digging in the loose stuff. Just a note a 10 pound bag doesn't go very far.

Elvis is in the Castle

Here is our Bearded Drgon Born (hatched) on April 30, 2007. He is the runt his brothers and sisters are twice the size of him. We had to remove him from the others a few months ago when (Godzilla) his brother tried to eat him. Elvis survived because I saw it happen (as well as everyone else in our 4H club).

We put him in a 20 gal long cage and are trying out a new product called "Excavator" made by Zoo Med. I like it so far. It seems to replicate it's natural enviorment (Hard Pan) which is hard compressed sand. Poop seems easy to clean up,. Just let it dry up a little first. Some of the clay crumbles up and the superworms we feed him crawl into the loose clay. This allows Elvis to sharpen his hunting skills. He digs for the worms.

Sweet Tara Eggs pipping

Another small clutch hatched this week. This is from my Sweet Tara x Charles clutch. Charles is a Jungle Carpet Python a Sweet Tara is a Diamond/Jungle Carpet Python. I love this picture with it little baby snake tongue sticking out.

Doga and his Baby Bearded Dragons

Here is Doga along with his newly hatched babies. We had a perfect hatch rate. Twenty four out of twenty fours eggs hatched on May 29th. All are eating well and very active.

Swing Low Sweet Charriot

Here is one of the babies swinging on a branch.

More Pictures of the Babies

Here are some more pictures of the Caroline x Jaws babies from this year.

Caroline's Eggs Have Hatched

I woke up on Memorial Day to one of the coolest things to see. Jaws and Caroline babies have hatched. They are now the proud parents of 13 gorgeous baby jungle carpet Pythons.

Picture of a Panther Chameleon

Here is an updated picture of "JoJo" my daughters Panther Chameleon. He is getting huge. And Starting to color up real nice. I wasn't going to breed him giving the fact that the egg incubation can be up to a year long but I just might have to. He is Beautiful er.. I mean very handsome. We bought this gem of a reptile from Screameleons at at reptile show in White Plains New York

Our First Bearded Dragon Hatched

We are very excited that our first dragon has hatched. For some it's old hat but for us it is a miracle. I will post more pictures as the rest hatch out.

Lucy turned out to be a BOY

Ah nuts, my pair of Kofiau Green tree python turned out to be both boys. I had ordered 1.1 (male.female) and it turned out to be 2.0 (all males) I had a bad feeling a few months ago when both of them went off feed which is normal for guys to do in the winter. The "Lucy" shed sperm plugs this isn't suppose to happen in girls (Damn Equal Opportunity). The Ricky shed sperm plugs, they were small so I stayed in denial until I went to the vet. ALL MY BAD FEELING HAD BEEN CONFIRMED. I have two boys which would have been great if they were of the human species. I spoke to the guy I bought them from (and several other snakes) before the visit to the vet and he said if they in fact turn out to both be boys then he would make good on the deal right when more came in to the country. He said that as far as he knows none have been brought into the US for 9 or more months. Then I heard that a group of snake hunters went searching for this species on Kofiau Island and the surrounding areas for one month and all they found were 3 snakes in all. Not having a really good feeling here. WISH ME LUCK

Love Is In The Air

Here is one of my Jungle Carpet Breeding Pairs for this year. Caroline is the one on the bottom and Jaws is the one on top. Jaws is the snake that made me go crazy with snakes. I had a couple of ball pythons years ago and I saw Jaws in a local pet shop and 60 snakes latter ...

Note to my wife ... Remember I sold 8 baby snakes so 60 is fairly reasonable. Right?