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Thursday 29 May 2014

473. New blog for Leo and other Reptile news and information

As a result of us opening up a retail Pet shop we have set up a new blog where we list our hatchlings and other stock which is located at http://waveneypetandreptile.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/waveney-pet-reptile.html We also have a Waveney pet and reptile facebook page where you can see what we have been up to over the last 12 months.

Tuesday 2 July 2013

472. Well eventually we got to 10.

We have been very busy in the past month and are well behind in making anoucements about hatches. The babe show in this piccy hatched out 08/06/2013. Not too sure who the parents are but at hatch she/he had a mixed Mack Snow and wild type colouration. So suspect this one is one of Maggies and mack puzzles offspring. This one was our 10th hatch of the season. Sticking with the food and drink theme we have named this babe Spam.

Saturday 25 May 2013

471. We have now accelerated up to Mach 2.

This little Mack snow has just hatched today (25/05/2013) after a 49 day incubation. Parents are Maggie and D-ream. Given this one the name of Mack Muffin. He or she looks a very good 3 gram.

Monday 20 May 2013

470. Phew rushed off our feet with 3 in a day

This is boiled egg who has hatched out this afternoon. He/she is the sibling to Dumpling in post 468 so both have the same parental biography.

469. Mang-tout fantastico

Indeed always fantastico when we have an African fatso hatch out. This is Mange tout who forced his/her way out of the egg at lunch break today (20/05/2013). All of which came after 70 days of incubation, seems African fatsos always do seem to take longer to incubate than Leopard Geckos. With a look of the eye we estimate Mange tout was thereabout 3 gram at hatch. Parens are our African fatso breeding crew Nelson and Polokwane. Fingers are crossed for the sibling egg to hatch which looks in ripe condition.

468. We always like our Dumplings

A big welcome to little dumpling who we found hatched out at the break of Dawn thuis morning (20/05/2013). According to our records Dumplings incubation took 53 days. As a looking estimate he/she is about a 3 gram hatch. Parents are Poppy and Dinkum who both have a hint of red stripe in them. Maybe they will pass some of the strip onto Dumpling?

Monday 6 May 2013

467. Toast almost the perfect twin for Cheese

This is Toast who has just jumped out of the egg this morning (06/05/2013). She/he is the sibling of Cheese in post 466. So all the biographic details are the same apart from an extra day for incubation.

Sunday 5 May 2013

466. More Cheese please.

This is Cheese who wre found hatched out this morning (05/05/2013). His/her incubation period was a very ponderous 61 days. Parents are Dinkum and Poppy and we are expecting Cheese will turn out to be a hypo. Weight at hatch was estimated at 2 gram.

Monday 29 April 2013

465. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 6 # 2).

Just put these two lovebirds togewther this afternoon (29/04/2013). The female is Karelin, she is the bright coloured hypo. Must say the photo of her is very flattering as she does not look so bright and tangerine in the flesh. Must have got some really good light rays shining on them when we took the photo. The male is our regular returning stud D-ream. This is his 6th mating excursion for the season.

464. The Bronze medal winner is?

Third hatch of the season who we have discovered in the last hour (29/04/2013) is a cracking Mack snow with a bit of jungle on the shoulders. Having rearranged and sorted our eggs out mid incubation we are a bit perplexed as to who the parents are. that said we have narrowed it down to the Sire being either D-ream or Mack puzzle, both Mack morph enigmas. That would make the Dam either Slinky or Bauble who are again Mack morphs. Incubation period, as based on these two parental options is either 58 or 61 days. Calling this baby Haggis and it looks a good 3 gram in weight.

Thursday 25 April 2013

463. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 6 # 1).

It has been a poor season so far in terms of succesful hatches with only a meagre two to date. We just seem to be getting clutch aftyer clutch of infertile eggs. However, we have still quite a few pair up to go and are hoping for a better second half to the season. The pair shown in this picture were put together 24/04/2013. The female is the supersnow and is called Fantasia. The male is mackpuzzle a Mack enigma who is getting his 6th mate of the seaon.

Sunday 14 April 2013

462. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 5 # 5).

This couple of Tremper red eyed eclipse have just been put together today (14/04/2013). The one on the right is the female who is called Antwerp. The male is Smash. Both are het for Diablo Blanco and our fingers are crossed we might get some cracking babies from this pairing.

Sunday 31 March 2013

461. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 5 # 4).

Just managed to get piccy of this pair before the the quality of daylight dipped for today. Both this pair are both good sized animals and the female is always reliable and copes well with the strains of breeding. The lighter one is mackpuzzle our male Mack enigma. The female is a fairly pale hypo called Patio.

460. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 5 # 3).

This is the fourth bunk up of the year for our African fatso Nelson. He is the albino in the piccy. His mate that we have paired him up with today is Tulu who is a very attractive wild type stripe. Whilst African fatsos are often tempermental when it comes to breeding, with us only producing one baby last year, we have got our fingers crossed for more this time around.

459. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 5 # 2).

Pictured are another pair we have just put together in the last few minutes. Lighter one is D-ream our male dreamsickle, though we might add he have still not got any offspring off him yet to prove his morph credentials. That said he is a fine looking specimen and will surtey contaminate some of his gennes and looks into any offspring he does produce. Hence the reason he is doing stud duties on this ocassion with our fairly plain hypo called Balti.

458. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (Round 5 # 1).

As round five implies its fifth time of asking for Einstien to perform his stud duties in 2013. He is the big bruiser of a Bell with a bit of broad strip on his shoulder in the piccy. On this occasion he is perfoming his stud duties with the petite Gravitas and Bell sunglow, and we think also a bit of enigma. We say petite as she is coming up for 2 years old and has never been over 55 gram. Breeding smaller stock always raises concerns but Leos are considered as adult at around 18 months of age. Therefore we have concluded Gravitas is naturally small and achived full size.

Tuesday 26 March 2013

457. Pre Easter 2013 breeding report.

Currently we have two healthy hatchlings. We also had another that died during the process of hatching a few days back. So in comparison to this time last year with our two hatchlings we are in an identical postion. Our next hatches are expected in about 14 days time after which the rate of hatch should pick up considerably with the possibility of 25-30 hatches in April 2013. our total number of good eggs this season to date was at 57 this morning. We have also had a few slugs to add to the overall total of eggs produced this season.

456. Silver medalist for being second hatch of the seaon.

This is the sibling of Chucky egg pictured in post 454. Keeping with our theme we have given him/her the name of Toblerone. She/he hatched out yesterday (25/03/2013) a couple hours after Chucky egg. Both are estimated at about 2 gram. Parents are Poppy and Dinkum.

Monday 25 March 2013

455. Hatchling names for 2013

Rather than an impersonal number we always like to give all our hatchlings a name. Last year our naming theme was the Olympics and Greek mythology. For this year we are using a theme of food and drink to name or babes. Hence, the name of Chucky egg given to our first hatchling of 2013 who is pictured in the previous post.

454. And the winner is ?

The gold medal award for the first hatchling of 2013 goes to Chucky egg who we have got pictured here. After a 55 day incubation she/he decided to crack the egg this afternoon (25/03/2013). Sadly we did have another hatchling yesterday but it was found dead and blue half in and half out of the egg. Sad but that is the way of nature. As for chucky egg she is sired by Dinkum a broad stripe with shades of red. From the look of the patterns on chucky egg looks like the broad stripe might have been passed on.

Friday 15 March 2013

453. meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 4 # 5).

Today (15/03/2013) we have paired Pivot, the chunky common Macularius Macularius in the piccy, with Kabul our 1oo% pure Afghanicus. kabul is the smaller one with the typical rugged looks and horizontal head bars associated with the Afghanicus sub species. hoping for a nice bit of cross fertilisation.

Wednesday 13 March 2013

452. 2013 breeding season - progress report.

We are generally quite pleased at where we currently are in comparison to previous seasons. As of today we have paired up 38 females and have harvested 42 good eggs which are in the incubator. Add to that that we have had a few slugs and maky eggs we reckon we had had about 50 overall. As of today our oldest eggs (29/01/2013) are 43 days into incubation. One is definitely sinking in the middle as a result of movement and expected to hatch very soon. Last year our incubation periods were somewhere in the region of 42 to 50 days. As we are incubating at the same temperature 29 degrees Celcius)we should get similar this time around. Might also add that in the UK we have had some unseasonal cold weather of late which is probably slowing down the rate of egg laying. One particular pleasing piece of news is that we got a superb clutch of African fatso eggs from an albino pair earlier in the week. Being that African fatsos can be tempermental when it comes to breeding it is always nice to get some good quality eggs. The weather is forecasty to become much warmer by the weekend. If so we are expecting a massive increase in egg production from now on.

451. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 4 # 4).

Fourth round of stud duties for Rip Rap our resident RAPTOR. For this match up we have put him with Whitey who is a blizzard. Might have been better to call her Greyie as she is a dark blizzard AKA midnight blizzard. Not too sure exactly what to expect from this pairing as we don't know what Whitey's base or het genes are. We are hoping she has some Tremper in her so that we might get the same from this pairing. Only one way to find and that is to wait for any offspring in about 10 - 11 weeks time. That being that these two darlings get it on with the minimum of fuss.

Saturday 9 March 2013

450. Meet the parents 2013 (round 4 # 3).

Here we have another pairing made in heaven. They were put together last week 05/03/2013. Both are Bell's and the larger big bruiser is Einstein. For his fourth round of stud duties he is covering Drill bit who is the smaller of the two. That said she weighed in at 66 gram last week so she is a fairly sturdy girl.

Saturday 2 March 2013

449. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 4 # 2)

More potential Mack combos on the horizon from these two lovelys who we have paired up this afternoon (02/03/2013). The light coloured Mack enigma is Macpuzzle. Getting it on with him in this engagement is Mackdonna who was a distinct jungle pattern as a baby and Juvenile. She has also got a high quantity of spots. hence we are hoping for some really interesting patterns from this combination if all goes well.

448. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 4 # 1).

Today (02/03/2013) marks the fourth round of passionate lovemaking for D-ream the dreamsicle. He is the lighter coloured one in the piccy. This time around he has been paired up with Maggie a Mack Snow who has produced us some superb babies in the last few years.

Wednesday 27 February 2013

447. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 3 # 10).

Just put these two together this afternoon. It is the third pairing of the season for our resident African fatso stud Nelson. He is the albino. This time round he has been teamed up with Tunis who is a plain banded wild type who also has a regrown tail after getting it trapped under her hide last year during the process of checking up on her. As a consequence we now always put our the Leos/fatsos on top of the hide after checking under it.

446. Breeding box set up

This is a typical set up we use for our breeding pairs. It is an 18 litre RUB's box. We prefer a one box per pair set up rather than the harem method as we find it easier to keep a record of who did what, where and when. once the pair have been together for a couple of weeks the male will be removed. To help keep eggs warm laid during the night or when we are out we place the nest box at the same end as the hide, which both then are over the heatmat. For setting up a nesting box we add a 20 gram vermiculite/perlite mix + 20 gram water, themn cover with moist sphagnum moss. Once all the contents are in the nest box we weigh and record it so that we can keep the same moisture level throughout the season.

Sunday 24 February 2013

445. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 3 # 9).

Just put hese two moonbeams together this afternoon (24/02/2013). The Blizzard with some paradox marking is Blizz. We originally bought her as a hatchling from Ray Hines back in 2009 then grew her on before selling her on to a local breeder. We got her back Gravid as part of a swap last season and she produced some nice Blazer Blizzard babies. So, not entirely sure if she has any hets. Her partner this season and in the piccy with her is Smash who is het for Diablo Blanco. So we should at least get Blizzards from this pairing.

Friday 22 February 2013

444. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 3 # 8).

Our latest honeymooners shown above and put together today (22/02/2013)are Revel the super hypo (i.e. no body spots) and Helios our male Tremper sunglow. Helios is the smaller one. The main purpose in this combination is brighten up any hypos that result from this mating.

Wednesday 20 February 2013

443. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 3 # 7).

It is two pairs in a day today (20/02/2013) with the two bright sparks below put together in the last hour. The bigger one is the female known as Tarten who is a Mack Bell. Was hoping to put her with Slurm another Mack Bell but he developed an abcess and prolapsed his hemipeni. He has had a course of antibiotics and is hanging on in there but not in good enough form to engage in passionate love making. So taking up the gaunlet and filling the void left in our breeding plans is Acropolis below. He is a nicely coloured Bell and one of our own prodigy from last year. Hoping he steps up to the plate and grabs a hold of the opportunity we have given him.

442. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 3 # 6).

It has a been a bit quite on the paring front for the past couple of weeks. This is mainly due to our visit to the Zwolle show 10th February 2013 and the preparation before it then the tidying up after the event. Anyways we have managed to get back to pairing up today (20/02/2013) with the charming couple below put together this afternoon. The male with bold stripe tendency is Dinkum who also had red hues as a youngster. we are hoping he will be able to pass somne of his charcaterics on to any offspring for this pairing. The female is Demerara who we put with a male roundabout Christmas. Alas nothing seems to have developed from that mating so second time for here. Incidentally Demerara was originally paired up with Isuzu the father of Dinkum. We would ordinarily have put the original pair back together for a secon mating but Isuzu is no longer with us as we sold at the Zwolle show, along with the rest of the stock we offered for sale.

Tuesday 5 February 2013

441. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 3 # 5)

And in today's (05/02/2013) pairing we have Kabul and Nell. Kabul is of pure Afghanicus wild caught bloodline, he is the very dark coloured one below. He has now been with us for 3 seasons after we imported him a few years back from PACHERP. He usually produces so nice raw and rugged wild type offspring. For this mating, his third call to breeding duties in 2013, he is going to give it a go with Nell the hi-yellowish one in the picture below.

Monday 4 February 2013

440. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season ( round 3 # 4 ).

Still plenty of work going on here as we put another pair together today (04/02/2013). Today's couple above are fanta and Einstien. Einstien is the bruiser of a Bell albino. Fanta the more pettite of this couple is some type of albino Mack. Overall this pairing is a bit speculative as we are not 100% sure what genes Fanta is carrying. Also partly explained by her first accidental breeding a few years back to a normal het for Bell that produced some real gems of babies. So with a Bell pairing we atre hoping we might get real gem babies this time around.

Sunday 3 February 2013

439. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season ( round 3 # 3).

No rest for the wicked even on the Lord's day. As usual we have been pairing up again. For today (03/02/2013) we have put the two shown below together. The tremper with some jungle in her is Jungle Jane. she has been part of our breeding sq1uad for the last 4 years and during that time has done us really proud with some of the babies she has produced. Her suitor for this season is Rip RAP our current emcumbent RAPTOR striker.

Saturday 2 February 2013

438. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 3 # 2).

Just finished introducing these two cheeky young things to each other this morning (02/02/2013). The black as the ace of spades wild type is Whoopi. Her partner for this season is Mack puzzle, so named on account of him being a Mack enigma. Fingers and toes are crossed we get some really interesting babies from this pairing on account of Mack puzzle's light enigmatic tones and the black as coal patterning from Whoopi.

Friday 1 February 2013

437. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 3 #1).

In the piccy below is today's pairing. The female is Slinky who is a ruby eyed supersnow albino. She is a 2011 hatchling and this is her first go at breeding. Her partner is D-ream a possible dreamsickle. This is D-ream third romantic encounter of the season to date.

Thursday 31 January 2013

436. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 #12)

So its the end of January 2013 and the pair below bring us to the end of the second round of pairingas made. From tomorrow our brave boys will be embarking on round 3. In the piccy below our pair put together today (31/01/2013) are a couple of albino African fatsos. The bigger one is Nelson who has been with us for quite a few years now. His current girlfriend in this picture is Polokwane who if our memory is correct will be 3 years old in a couple of months. Named Polokwane after one of the township venues used at the Coupe de Monde 2010 in South Africa.

Wednesday 30 January 2013

435. Egg weather forecast for the week

Good news we got 4 more eggs yesterday (29/01/2013) bringing our seasonal tally up to 6. The eggs we collected yesterday looked in good conditon and were set firm. For the rest of the week we have have 2 more girls on the point of lay with eggs clearly visible. They are also showing other symptons of immenent egg lay which includes: 1. irritable, uncomfortable and out of their hide during daylight. 2. regular visits to the lay box and repositioning of lay box material including kick material out of the box. 3. Clawing and rubbing at paper substrate underneath their hides. All good signs that eggs are nigh.

Sunday 27 January 2013

434. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 # 11).

Just put these two Macularius Macularuius wild caught bloodline couple together this afternoon (27/01/2013). The big bruiser is Mohammad who came to us from Steve Sykes wild caught group at Herpetoculture. He has been with us for 4 years now and is still as fit as a fiddle. The smaller female is Pakora who is one of our own produced offspring from 2011. She was actually sired by Mohammad so we got a bit of incest going on. Having said that must remember reptiles ain't to fussed that way. Also this pairing enables to produce, with confidence, guaranteed wild caught bloodlines that are uncontaminated with the albino or other captive bred morphs.

Thursday 24 January 2013

433. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 #10).

We are just over a month into our official breeding season and have to date paired up, we think, about 21 Leos so far. The pair below were put into each others company within the last 30 minutes (24/01/2013). The biggest is Jungle rock a solid red eyed Tremper stripe. The smaller is of the same ilk but without a stripe. He goes by the name of Smash. He is het for Diablo Blanco which we also think is true of Jungle rock. Would be fantastic if we could get the odd Diablo Blanco from these two.

Wednesday 23 January 2013

432. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 # 9)

Here is another couple we have put into a union today (23/01/2013). Smaller one is Bell-end a Bell enigma. This time round we have put him with Meriva a chunky wild type. Given that both these two morphs are essentially dominant we should statistically speaking get 50%enigmas and 50% wild types if they breed succesfully.

431. We got dud eggs.

Sadly we have concluded that our first eggs of the season which were dropped yesterday are dud as they are still soft and don't look too good. These were from Goldust who is a first time breeder. So, maybe there is something in what you regularly hear from breeders which normally is along the line that first eggs are usually infertile. Must add that that does not apply in all cases as in the past we have had quite a few first time breeders whose first clutches have been fertile.

Tuesday 22 January 2013

430. We got eggs,

Yes Siry we got eggs today (22/01/2013) which is the good news, negative part is that they look a little squashed. Anyway they are know in the incubator and lets hope we will be lucky and they puff up a bit. Must be that January 22nd is our lucky day as we also got our first eggs last year on the same day. Think it might have been helped by the frosty weather easing today and convincing Goldust warmer times are ahead. Goldust the egg producer and her mate are shown in post 409.

Monday 21 January 2013

429. We're ready for eggs!

Indeed, eggs are prominent in the bellies of some of our girlies. Hence we have set up some incubator eggs boxes in anticipation. One change for this year is that we are using bottled water rather than the usual stuff from the tap. We are testing out to see if it might help to increase our full-term success rate. So, we are definitely ready apart from one spaneer in the works. That being that is has turned awfully cold in the last week and we have 100 cm of snow on the ground. Given that reptiles are highly sensitive to environmental change and will not lay when it is too cold we are hoping for a little bit more warmth in the coming days to encourage laying. Incidentally last year our first egg of the season were on 22nd January.

Sunday 20 January 2013

428. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 # 8

These two are the first pairing we have made for several days. Just put them together today (20/01/2013). Both are Tremper sunglows. The male with slight spotting is Helios. the larger one is Roma. heres hoping they live happily ever after and go on to produce some nice sunglow babies.

Thursday 17 January 2013

427. 2013 Breeding season update

2013 breeding season update. We have made something in the order of 19 leopard geckos pairings and 4 sanake to date. So, we are progressing quite nicely and eggs are now visible in some of the females. normally we eggs to get a handful of eggs before the end of January. Only thing preventing this at the moment is the fact that the weather has taken a turn for the worst and it is freezing cold. Whilst are Leos are nice and warm with a heatmat under them the problem is that the ambient heat in the rest of their enclosure, due to the general cold weather, is too low to convince them to drop eggs. hopefully we will soon get a break in the weather and eggs will be produced. Fingers are crossed for some next week.

Monday 14 January 2013

426. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 # 7)

Firstly we must apologize for the written details in this piccy which are incorrect and relate to yesterdays pairing. Just taken the piccy, come back inside and realised we had the wrong piece of paper in the box when we uploaded the image. Would have gone back out and retaken the piccy but it is getting late in the afternnon and its cold outside. Anyways after all that blurb lets explain who we have in todays pairing (14/01/2013). The plain jane box standard wild type is Cumbria who is the girlie. Also shown is Isuzu who we have used over the last couple of seasons to inject a bit of broad striping into our wild type group. Isuzu certainly seemed to enjoy the company of Cumbria straight away as he instantly grabbed hold of her and locked on with a bit of introductory fore play.

Sunday 13 January 2013

425. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 # 6)

This is our 17th or thereabout pairing for the 2013 season which we put together this afternoon. Added to 3 snakes pairings made in the last few weeks we should if all goes well be getting a fair number of eggs quite soon. In particular, a few of our Leos are definitely carry eggs which can be seen through their bellies. Anyways the couple below are Dinkum our red tinted stripe and Swoosh a fairly standard wild type Macularius. We are hoping dinkum might sprinkle a bit of his broad striping onto any offspring produced.

Friday 11 January 2013

424. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 # 5)

Pairing up continues a pace. Today we have the "black as the Ace of spades" Kabul our 100% wild caught bloodline pure Afghanicus. Pictured with him is his latest girlfriend Lulu who looks a whiter shade of pale in comparison.

Thursday 10 January 2013

423. Zwolle Terraria 10th February 2013 Leopard Gecko availability.

Lowestoft Leopard geckos and other Reptilestoo is proud to announce that we will be attending the Zwolle Terraria 10th February 2013. We are also running a table at the show with a selection of our animals that with be available to purchase. We also have space in the motor for anybody else form the UK who might be interested in making the trip. If not interested yourself please pass this on to anybody else you think might be interested. A great opportunity for anybody looking to purchase grown on 2012 births and hatchlings.

422. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 # 4)..

Even in the cold winter air Einstien shown below has grabbed hold of the females tail to get on with the business of mating. Just put these two togewther in the last half hour. This is Einstiens second outing of the season. The female on this outing is Belletoni who is quite a chunky girl. Bit of the last chance saloon for her as we tried breeding her last year and ended with no eggs. Hopefully 12 months extra maturity and a bit more obesity will result in eggs this season.

Wednesday 9 January 2013

421. To be or not to be a name change?

Due to the fact that our reptile collection has significantly expanded since we started this blog we think we need to change its title. As we now have a variety of snakes and lizards we thinking of changing it to Lowestoft Leopard geckos and other reptilestoo.

420 Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 # 3).

Our latest pair of breeders is Diva (red eyed Tremper eclipse) and Rip Rap (RAPTOR) who are pictured below. This is Rip Rap's second tour of stud duties since our breeding season was declared open last month. Diva is one of our own produced Leos from 2009. Not 100% sure, as we have lost some computer stored data, but she may be het for RAPTOR which would result in some baby RAPTORS. If not we will have to make do with some lovely red eyed Tremper eclipses. But no point in thinking about your baby Leos until the eggs have been laid.

Tuesday 8 January 2013

419. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 # 2)

Today it is second time around for Macpuzzle following his earlier stud duties. He is the lighter Mack enigma pictured below. Getting it on with him this time is Spotz who is a fairly standard big spotted wild type normal. That said she was a delicously attractive looking Juvenile with random dark blotches. Shame they broke up into individual spots.

Saturday 5 January 2013

418. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 2 # 1)

From our first round of pairings some of the couples have been together for 14 days or thereabouts so time to move them on to new partners. First partenership in round 2 is D-ream and Hazel who are shown below. Hazel has been with us for a few years now and was originally sold to us a a Diablo Blanco but speckled up with growth to turn out like a Mack RAPTOR. If so looking forward to some nice babies from this pairing if all goes well.

Wednesday 2 January 2013

417. meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (12))

Now the festive holiday season is over it's back to the business of pairing up our Leos and African fatsos for the 2013 breeding season. Below is our albino African fatso Nelson and Winnie a wild type stripe who we have just this minute put together. Fingers and toes are crossed we have more success with breeding our African fatsos this time around after only producing a single baby in 2012. But of course we must remember African fatsos are much more sensitive to environmental conditions and are just not as easy to breed as Leopard Geckos.

Monday 31 December 2012

416. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (11)

Blimey two pairings in one day. Well it is a public holiday tomorrow and time to put the feet up before we really get the 2013 breeding season underway. These two classic wild types are Mohammad and Lynn. Mohammad is slightly bigger, he usually max's out at 115 gram, and is at the bottom of the piccy. He also boasts a preserved wild caught bloodline with no non purist morphs in his genes.

415. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (10)

What a lovely pair of Trempers shown below. The larger one is Petula who a fairly plain Tremper girl who we bred ourselves back in 2010 if er recall correctly. The smaller one is Smash who was a 2012 hatchling who has a Diablo Blanco from his Papa. not 100% sure but Petula might also be het for Diablo Blanco. fingers are crossed we might find out from any future offspring.

Sunday 30 December 2012

414. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (9)

The latest pairing put together is shown below. The large Bell albino is Forfar who is the female. Bell end the smaller one is a Bell enigma so heres hoping for some nice standard Bells and enigmas.