102. A handful of new girls for breeding in 2011.

In the frames overhead is a selection of some of our new female breeders for 2011. All of them are 2010 hatchlings and now weighing in at 50 plus grams and getting porky on the back hips. So we are pretty confident we will be able to breed them in 2011. Starting at the top is Duchess who is a RAPTOR we produced from our own stock. Second in the pile is Currant bun, a Tremper sunglow bred by Ray Hine. We are still looking for a male sunglow suitor for her. Third and fourth are a standard Bell albino (Belletoni), with a regen tail, and a blizzard (Alsaka) with a tint of red in her eye, therefore a Diablo blanco. We got these two from Sazzle at the November 2010Kidderminster show.

101. Introducing new male breeding squad members for the 2011 season

From top to bottom we have Rob Roy, Isuzu, Einstein and Ahmed who have all been recruited in the last couple of months to improve and increase the range of morphs we hope to produce during 2011.
Rob Roy is a supersnow who was snapped up from a private seller in Kent with the sole purpose improving the percentage of Mack snows we get from our two female Mack snows. Fingers crossed we will also get some supersnows. He is also the spitting image of Hazel who was sold to us as a baby Diablo Blanco; she ultimately speckled up. So another breeding candidate for Rob Roy.
Isuzu was produced by us from the accidental breeding between Fanta our Phantom and a run of the mill hi-yellow. Overall he is a bit of a mongrel mish mash with what we think is Bell and snow genes. Maybe, well from what we can see, even broad stripe tendencies in him.
Einstein third from the top is a Bell albino with a sprinkling of broad stripe in him. He comes to us from Herpetoculture via Hamm in September 2010. He was specifically bought for breeding with our Bell albinos so we can produce that morph during 2011, and at the same time reduce the number of normals we produce.
Last in the gallery is Ahmed who has a perserved wild caught bloodline. He came to us from Eurorep via a local pet shop contact. We are looking to breed him with some of the wild caught bloodlines we produced during 2010.

100. Afghan asylum seekers celebrate their first Christmas in Lowestoft.

The two piccys above are off our Afghanicus Leopard Geckos(Eublepharis Macularius Afghanicus) that we imported from PACHERP USA via the Hamm show last September (2010). Whilst not obvious from the pictures the Afghanicus sub species are the mini-minors of the Leopard Gecko species. Average adult length is 6 inch (150mm)compared to 8- 10 inch (200 - 250mm) for the more commom Macularis Macularius varieties. The pictures were taken 25/12/2010 when Kabul the male (upper) was 39 grams while Sangin (the female (lower) was 38 gram. So all in all at these weights they are now well into adulthood and probably only a few grams from maximum size which makes them definite goers for breeding in 2011. We also have a few more normal girl friends for the male including a wild caught bloodline Macularius Macularius to see what we might get. Fingers crossed for some interesting offspring.

99. Passing of winter solistice marks beginning of 2011 breeding season.

After a period of cooling the housing temperatures of our main breeders, and following the winter solistice, today we will be raising housing temperatures and start preparing for the 2011 breeding season. Reptiles are great at sensing enviromental change and quickly pickup on the fact that the length of daylight is increasing. So as soon as housing temperatures are raised we are expecting breeding interest, and activity to begin almost straight away. Our earliest eggs were laid 22nd January this year. So fingers crossed for a similar response in 2011.

98. And now the absolute final pair of 2010 hatchlings

These two African fat tails hatched 18/10/2010 (lower) & 19/10/2010 (upper)and represent the very last animals that we hatched during 2010. Incubation period was 67 and 68 days after which both weighed in at 2 gram. These pictures were taken 22/12/2010 when the lower fatty was 8 gram and the upper was at 7 gram. Parents are Nelson (albino) and Winnie (skunk stripe).

97. And now the last two Leopard Gecko hatchlings from 2010

Here are our last leo hatchlings from the 2010 breeding season which were born 12/10/2010 (lower picture) and 14/10/2010 (upper picture). Both pictures were taken 18/12/2010 and confirm they are hypos following the complete fading of their black hatch banding. current weights are 28 gram (upper leo) and a runty 12 gram for the lower leo. Both hatched out at 2 gram on incubation day 50 and 52. the parents are Lulu (hypo) and Ringo (hi-yellow).
So thats it for our 2010 leos. Just got 2 African fat tails to upload and then everything we hatched in 2010 will be listed.

96. Two more Trempers from October.

Here are two more Tremper babies that hatched out 07/10/2010 (lower picture) & 08/10/2010 (upper picture). The pictures above were actually taken 13/12/2010 with both weighing 15 gram. Hatch weight was 3 gram for both after a 55 & 56 day incubation. the parents for both are nero our Diablo Blanco and Trixy a chocolate Tremper.
Now just 4 more pictures and biographies to upload to complete the full set of all our babies form 2010. Nearly there.

95. The last blizzards from 2010

From the top to the bottom picture is shown our last blizzards hatching during the 2010 breeding season. Both these pictures were taken today with the top leo at 23 gram and the lower at 18 gram. Both are het for Diablo blanco from the sire (nero). The dam was Anya a dark midnight blizzard. The top leo hatched out 04/10/2010 after a 53 day incubation. The lower leo came 24 hours later on the 05/10/2010. Both weighed in at 3 gram.

94. Our sole jungle Tremper from 2010

Hatch was on 03/10/2010 after a 53 day incubation. She weighed in at 3 gram and the parents are Jungle Jane and Pharoah. Was up to 18 gram on Saturday 04/12/2010.

Just got 8 more pictures to upload to complete all of our hatches from 2010.

93. More unanounced babies

Lower picture is a tiny little Tremper that hatched out 02/10/2010 with a weight that said 1 gram on our scales. Incidentally 29 days later it is up to 6 gram and now 20g on the day the picture above was taken (07/12/2010). Parents are Pharoah a chunky almost patternless Tremper. The Dam is Jungle Jane who is a red eyed Tremper eclipse with jungle banding. incubation period was 62 days.
Upper picture was taken on 07/12/2010 at a weight of 20 gram and shows another hatch from 02/10/2010. A banana blizzard out of Jungle Jane and Pharoah both Trempers. One being jungle pattern and the latter bordering on Patternless to a treverse stripe. Hatch weight was 2 gram after an incubation of 63 days.

92. 2010 Breeding season closes

Our last egg hatched out yesterday to give us our sixth African fat tail of the year. At the same time it was our last egg of the 2010 season during which we have hatched just over 120 babies. We still have a few to announce on this site born this month, which we will do next week after the Portsmouth reptile and amphibian show at Havant leisure centre this coming Sunday (24/10/2010). We will be running a table at the Portsmouth show on which we will be offering for sale 30 plus babies that have been announced previously on this site with complete biographic background. If you are going to the show please come and say hello.

91. Which was the first October baby?

Not really sure which of these two was the first baby leo to hatch in October as we found both of them to have hatched out on the morning of 01/10/2010. These pictures were taken on 04/10/2010. The top baby is the sibling of the baby in post 90. Her hatch weight was 3 gram. At 3 days old we can already see here banding is fading and she will develop into a hypo. The lower baby baby is a Tremper albino. We are 100% sure that the father was Nero our star Diablo blanco. However, the mum could be milly or Trixy both standard banded Trempers. Incubation was 65 or 67 days and hatch weight was 3 gram.

90. Leo mentioned in post 89.

here she is the baby announced in post 89. We expect her black patchs to fade significantly as she grows and maybe she will turn out to be a hypo.

89. Last hatch in September 2010

Oops lost the picture. I will upload it later. Anyways here is the biography. Our last hatch for September 2010 was on the 29th. Just a standard looking normal from Lulu and Ringo. That said this pair have given us some nice hypos. so with growth maybe the dark banding will wash out. However, most interesting of all is that according to our records the incubation period was a mere 37 days. Maybe it is another one of our classical accounting errors? but the weight was pretty normal at 3gram.

88. Only four days behind with hatch announcements

This little jungle Mack Snow hatched 28/09/2010 after an incubation of 58 days and she weighed in at 3 gram. Sadly there will be no sibling from this clutch as the other egg went manky. Parents are Maggie (Mack Snow0 and mo (normal).

87. Septembers miracle!

Well we reckon this baby which hatched out 25/09/2010 must be a miracle; our records show its sibling hatched out 30/08/2010. What happened here is that as the egg had not hatched out in the time period expected we moved it to another box in which we put our suspected dodgy eggs. But low and behold just when we had given up all hope we would get anything out of the egg out she burst. Hatch weight was 3 gram and the incubation period must be up into the 8o days range. Still not too sure who the parents are which will take some working out.

86. More Trempers

The two babies here hatched 19/09/2010 (lower picture) and 20/09/2010. The pictures were taken 01/10/2010 and it is amazing how there pinkish hues at hatch have faded. There recent darkening makes us think they will be chocolate Tremper albinos as they grow larger. Both share the same parents Trixy (standard banded Tremper albino) and Nero (Diablo blanco). They both weighed in at 2 gram with incubation periods being 55and 56 days.

85. And another normal twinset.

It has been a busy two weeks what with getting our leos all prepared for the Doncaster IHS show 26th September 2010. As a result we have really got behind with announcing new hatchlings. Up above we have a pair of babies that hatched 15th September 2010. This picture was taken 30th September 2010. As you can see they are doing pretty well. Parents are Red Ron (Tremper red eyed eclipse) and Patricia (patternless. Incubation was 58 days and hatch weight for boteh was 3 gram. We have another 5 babies that have hatched since these two and we will get their details up as soon as we can.
Also worth noting the 2010 breeding season is rapidly winding down and we have roughly about another 10 eggs waiting to hatch.

84. And now a very normal twinset

These 2 little cutey pies popped out of their eggs to greet us on 14/09/2010. The parents are Lulu and ringo. Weight at hatch was 3 gram for both of them and the length of incubation was 60 days.

83. Tremper twinset

Here we have another great pair of Tremper albinos which hatched 13/08/2010. The bottom baby on the blue background is patternless so definitely an APTOR. Even maybe a RAPTOR as we have not a close look at her eyes yet. If so would not to big a susrprise as the parents Nero (Diablo Blanco) and Scarlett (RAPTOR) obviously have a great pedigree and have produced us several red eyed leos this breeding season. incubation time for these two babies was 58 days. the baby on the blue background hatched out at 2 gram. The baby on the green background is from the same parents and weighed in at 3 gram at hatch. Unfortunately she seems to have got trapped under stiff paper and quite soon after her hatch she dropped her tail. As you might be able to make out she has a micro reverse stripe on her lower back so not technically patternless.

82. And then along came 100.

Well here she is. Our 100th baby of the 2010 breeding season. This baby is the sibling of the normal in post 81. hatch was 1 day later on 10/09/2010. On weighing she was 3 gram.

81. Ninety eight and ninety nine.

We are getting very close to our 100th baby for the 2010 breeding season. The 2 babies above take us up to 99. The Tremper baby is the sibling of the baby in post 80. she hatched one day later (09/09/2010) and topped the scales at 2 gram. The normal type baby hatched out on the same day after an incubation of 60 days. weight was three grams and the parents are Befi and Pharoah.

80. And another Tremper eclipse

Well its actually 2 Tremper eclipses we have to announce as the sibling of this baby popped out 24 hours later. Indeed we have done quite well in producing a fair number of eclipses this year from our Tremper breeding combinations. So we won't be parting easily with our Tremper breeders who are consistently giving us eclipses. The baby here is the offspring of Trixy (Tremper albino) and Nero. Hatch was after a 59 day incubation period and birth weight was 2 gram. Small weight from small egg!

79. Catching up with recent hatches

Up top are 2 babies that hatched out 01/09/2010. Both were a bit weedy at 2 gram. The lower baby is a Mack Snow from Maggie and Mo. We are 100% certain on the parentage due to the fact Maggie is our only Mack Snow. I should add that that means a normal we announced as being the offspring from Maggie and Mo a few post back must be incorrect. This baby had incubated for 56 days.
The upper baby is, we think, the offspring of Red Ron and Patricia. If correct the incubation period for her was 61 days.

78. Last baby in August 2010

Here is our last hatch from August 2010. She popped out of her egg in the middle of the afternoon 31/08/2010. we think the parents are Red Ron and Patricia. If true that means she incubated for 60 days. She was a nice chunky 3 gram at hatch.

77. Here is a few babies to register!

As I am writing this we also have another baby in the process of greeting the world with its head poking out of an egg. Who knows maybe she will be the last hatch during August 2010.
Anyhow lets introduce the 3 babies in this post starting from the bottom. That baby hatched out 30/08/2010. Unfortunately we are not certain about some of its other biographic detail. In particular, we think it is the offspring of Trixy (standard banded Tremper albino)and Nero our Diablo Blanco, but we are not 100% sure due to us not carefully tracking our eggs. If this is correct she had an incubation period of 50 days. One thing we are definitely sure about is her hatch weight which was 3 gram.

Next the baby in the middle hatched 30/08/2010 and weighed in at 3 gram. Parents are Patricia (patternless) and Red Ron (Tremper albino eclipse with ruby eyes). incubation period was 59 days.

Finally the top image shows a baby that hatched 31/08/2010 after a 60 day incubation and coming out at the rather standard 3 gram weight. The parents of this baby are Jungle Jane (Tremper albino jungle pattern) and Pharaoh(Tremper albino reverse stripe/patternless).

76. A rare Mack Snow!

Certainly rare for us this season. This baby hatched 28/08/2010 after an incubation period of somewhere in the range of 55 days. Hatch weight was 3 gram. The parents are Maggie who is a Mack Snow who came to us from Ray Hine. The sire is Mo who we call our interesting normal. Mo has been with for 2 years this bank holiday weekend.He came to us from a private sale with somebody in Cromer. Funny thing is he was sold to us as a female!

75.Enter tiny!

This baby is the sibling of the baby shown in post 72. she hatched out two days later on 27/08/2010. According to our digital scales her weight was a solitary 1 gram? Not too sure we believe that as she looks at least 2 gram. Also we had to renew the batteries in the scales the next day during our collection weekly weigh in.

74. Surprise, surprise there is two of us!

Here we have a couple of babies that we expect to blossom into hypos. We say this because both the parents (Izzy & Wizzy) are hypos. Also the banding is broken in places and is a brownish shade. They were found to have popped out of their eggs on the morning of 27/08/2010 after a 63 day incubation period. Both weighed in at the rather customary 3 gram.

73. IHS Doncaster show 26th September 2010

Once again we will be running a table at this show on 26th September 2010. We are expecting to be able to have 30 - 40 Leopard geckos available for sale. They are our own stock and a large majority of these animals will be those you see on this site. We may also be offering some of our own reliable, healthy and proven breeders that are still in their prime. So if you see anything on here that is of interest to you there is a good chance it may be on our table on 26th September. If you are going please call by and say hello.

72. Egg production slowing but still plenty more hatches to come

As we approach the beginning of September it has been very noticeable that the 2010 breeding season is tapering to a close. We have had 12 eggs during August with the last clutch on 25/08/2010. From belly inspections and previous experience we are no more than half-a-dozen before we can officially declare this years breeding season is closed. That said we still have quite a lot of good eggs developing in our incubator and can expect new arrivals up to and maybe into November.
Up above we have picture of our latest baby which hatched 25/08/2010. Incubation was 55 days and the parents were Patsy (patternless) and Nero (Diablo blanco). Hatch weight was 3 gram. This baby has a brown shade of banding which we are expecting to fade with growth.

71. Two more births to register!

The two babies up above are out of Befi (Bell albino) and Pharoah (Tremper patternless/reverse stripe). These parents have produced no end of babies this season with 4 further eggs still in the incubator. Also Befi still looks eggy in her belly so may yet drop another clutch before the breeding season is out. both the babies above were 3 gram at hatch. The lower baby hatched 21/08/2010 after an incubation period of 59 days. The upper baby came 24 hours later. if you look closely you might see the upper baby has broken black bands which usually give rise to interesting patterns when leos begin to grow.

70. The umpteenth Tremper!

This pretty partial reverse stripe Tremper albino hatched out 21/08/2010 after a 59 day incubation. Hatch weight was 3 gram. she has a great pedigree and hets with the sire being Nero Diablo Blanco)and the Dam is Scarlett (RAPTOR).

69. Awful weather continues with another Blizzard in August!

This Blizzard hatched out 20/08/2010 with the rather typical weight of 3 gram. Incubation period was 57 days. parents are Anya (Midnight blizzard with paradox spot) and Nero our Diablo Blanco. So all in all she is het for Diablo Blanco.