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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.