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.

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.

413. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (8)

Down below we have pictured Helios a male Tremper sunglow. Alongside him is Aifix a fairly plain female hypo. We are hoping the sunglow in Helios will brighten up any offspring we get from this pairing.

412. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (7)

Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And since we've no place to go let them them breed, let them breed, let them breed. And today's delightful couple shown below are Isuzu, with bold stripe and Demerara who is an aberant wild type with reduced spotting. We are hoping Isuzu will pass some of his broad striping on to any offspring.

411. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (6)

Todays pairing is Poppy, the smaller Hypo and Dinkum the fat brute with some broad stripe tendency. Both of these Leos exhibted some red striping as babies and juveniles so we thought they we make an interesting pairing.

410. Lowestoft Afghan sex pest at it again - meet the parents fr the 2013 bredding season (5)

Christmas day plus 1 and our randy Afghanicus stud Kabul has broken off the with the seasonal festivities to get back to breeding duties. In the picture he is the smaller Leo with the dark rugged looks typical of undiluted and pure bred Afghanicus's. The female is a common Macularius wild type called Scrabble.

409. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (4)

Today it was Einstien's turn to return to stud duties. He is the big Bell albino shown below. In keeping with his Islamic principles we have lined him up with Goldust a definite non-slapper and certified virgin. She came to us from Slurm geckos at the Chelmsford show back in September 2011. Since when we have grown her on to ensure she is a maxed out adult. As far as we are aware she is a Bell enigma. That being another reason to make sure she is at least 2 christmas's old before breeding; we usually find that some of the enigma morphs are a bit fragile and it is advisable to wait a little bit longer before breeding the females. Anyways fingers crossed we will get some nice Bell's and enigmas from this pairing.

408. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (3)

Here we have a couple of RAPTORS who have just been paired up this afternoon. The big un is the female who is called Caesium who we bought from Ray Hines table at the Kempton show back in August 2011. the male is Rip Rap who came to us from Norwich Leopard Geckos. RAPTOR to RAPTOR sounds like we should get RAPTOR babes if all goes well.

407. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (2)

Just paired up these two Leos a few minutes ago. The slightly smaller light coloured one is the male who goes by the name of D-ream. So called on account of him being, we think, a Dreamsicle. Hopefully if he does the business with his girlfriend, and we ultimately get some offspring we should be able to confirm his morph status. On this outing his girlfriend shown here is Superlative who is an absolutely gorgeous Mack Tremper. Morph calculator say we should, if all goes well, get some cracking babies from this combination. Just to confirm these two have been put together today (23/12/2012)and not as written on the piccy. Obviously I am one day behind. Must have been time warped from the excitement of Christmas lol.

406. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (1)

The big fella in this photo is Macpuzzle who is a Mack Snow enigma. He is pictured with Bauble a Mack hypo who is his first liasion for the 2013 breeding season. Seeing as he is such a fine specimen we think he will breed some nice offspring and intend to use him as a stud for a few more of our ladies. According to the morph calculator on average this pairing should produce:12.5% Supersnow enigma (1copy) Hypo (1 Copy), 25% Mack Snow enigma(1 Copy) Hypo (1 Copy), 12.5% Enigma (1 Copy) Hypo (1 Copy), 12.5% Supersnow hypo (1 Copy), 25% Mack Snow Hypo (1 Copy) & 12.5% Hypo (1 Copy). Hmm quite a variety from one pairing.

405. 2013 Breeding season declared open

As usual at Winter solstice plus one day we will be starting to pair up our Mum and Dad breeding Leos today for the new season. Also for this season we will be using the brand new Mayan calendar to record and plot all our squads progress this season. So what with our fortnightly weighing and sorting out the breeding boxes we have plenty of work to get through today. We will try and upload piccy's of our breeding couples as soon as possible.

404 Additions to the first team breeding squad for 2013 (3)

This is Bell end, so named on account of him being a Bell enigma. Just weighed him today and he is at 43 gram which considering he is male is plenty chunky enough to put him out to stud for the coming season starting in 8 days time.

403. Additions to the first team breeding squad for 2013 (2)

This cheeky chunky little monkey is Macpuzzle who we purchased from Daniel Browning last month. He is a male Mack enigma who we are hoping to introduce to some of our girls, starting from 22nd December in 9 days time. We think that is why he is smiling.