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.
Monday, 20 May 2013
470. Phew rushed off our feet with 3 in a day
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
Monday, 6 May 2013
467. Toast almost the perfect twin for Cheese
Sunday, 5 May 2013
466. More Cheese please.
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?
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).
Sunday, 31 March 2013
461. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 5 # 4).
460. Meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 5 # 3).
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).
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.
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 ?
Friday, 15 March 2013
453. meet the parents for the 2013 breeding season (round 4 # 5).
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).
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).
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
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).
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.
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