67. A Blizzard in August

Up above is another brand new Blizzard to add to our growing collection. She hatched 11/08/2010 with a weight of 3 gram. That was after incubating for 61 days. The parents are Nero our Diablo Blanco and Slate who is a fairly strightforward Blizzard. Must apologise for the poor quality of the image.

66. The normals keep on hatching

This baby hatched 09/08/2010 after a 60 day incubation. The picture was taken on 12/08/2010 as she goes into her first shed. Hatch weight was 3 gram and she is the offspring of Lulu who is a very orange hypo. In fact dep organgish colour tempts me to think she is a sunglow. The father is Ringo a hi-yellow who we obtain from a Lowestoft breeder in 2008 and who we sold at the Doncaster IHS show in June 2010.

65. Tremper hetted normals

These two hatched out ready to hit the ground running. Both are very active and chunky with weights of 4 gram. From their current mannerisms we expect them to gain weight quickly. One hatched out 07/08/2010 and the other on 08/08/2010. With things being pretty hectic as we reach the zenith of the breeding season we don't know which is which according to their hatch dates. So incubation for both was either 62 or 63 days. Parents are red Ron (Ruby, proper red eyed Tremper albino eclipse) and Patricia a very competent pear shaped well built (patternless).

64. And we have another pair of African fatty hatchlings

These two popped out of their shells to great us on 07/08/2010 after an incubation period of 72 days. Parents are Nelson (albino) and Winnie (skunk stripe). One of the babies looks to have a skunk stripe while the other very plain. Weighing in at 3 gram each they are bigger than the AFT babies that we posted up on here last week.

63. Stunning Phantom mongrels

Even if i do say so myself, what a couple of cracking leopard gecko babies these two are. They are from the same clutch of eggs produced by Fanta (Phantom - Dam) and Dotty (Lavender spotted hi-yellow from a Bell heritage - Sire) They both hatched out 06/08/2010 after incubating for 62 days. Weight was 4 grams for the more solid chocolate spotted baby. The more ghostly baby was 3 grams. The reason I have referred to them as mongrels is because I have had some similar to these from the same parents earlier in the season. In particular, I reckon the chocolate spotted/partial banded baby will lose that colouring as it grows and black spots will emerge to give it the look of an enigma which are as far as i am concerned are basically mongrels.

62. Tremper's are breaking out again!

Sorry for the quality of the images above but things have been pretty hectic with hatching geckos over the last few days. The two images in this post are our latest Tremper albino hatchlings. They look to be fairly standard with typical banding pattern, though they may have eclipse eyes which we will confirm when we give them a full checkover. The parents for both are Diva and Red Ron who have been a very successful couple this season. The top one hatched out 03/08/2010 on incubation day 57 at a weight of 3 grams. Second one down came 2 days later on 05/08/2010 concluding a 59 day incubation and with the rather standard 3 gram weight.

61. AFT clutch mate breaks out of egg!

Up aloft we have the sibling of the African fat tail that is shown in post 60. Both physically and statistically this one is also nearly identical to the AFT in post 60The main difference is the incubation period, which was 81 days on hatch date 03/08/2010.

60. We have eventually got a African fat tail baby.

Straight after the baby in post 59 had hatched we notice the baby African fatso above was was poking its head of the egg from which it fully emerged a little later. on weighing she topped the scales at 2 gram. Parents are Nelson (albino) and Winnie a skunk stripe. Incubation day was 80 days. Not too sure on the incubation length on account of having two lots of eggs in the same container with the remaining 2 still looking okay.

59. First of August

Here we have a nice little Blizzard baby that hatched 02/08/2010 after incubating for 52 days. Her weight at hatch was a chunky 4 gram. parents are Nero (Diablo blanco) and Patsy a fairly standard patternless who came to us from Ray Hine.

58. Six in a day!

The babies above, complete with the baby in post 57, meant that altogether we got 6 new hatchlings 27/07/2010. The 5 above all popped out of their eggs in the evening within a 2 hour period. The top baby is looking like a patternless Tremper albino or possibly with fade a blizzard. The parents are Nero our Diablo blanco and Scarlett our classy RAPTOR. Incubation day was 61 and hatch weight 3 gram.
Second and third from the top are a couple of normals out of Izzy and Wizzy a hi-yellow couple. Incubation period was 53 days and both weighed 3 gram.
Forth and fifth from the top are the offspring from Nero and Patsy a patternless. Incubation day was 69 for both and they also both weighed 3 gram. We reckon the last one will lose its spotting as it grows to eventually resemble the patternless mother. The picture for the fourth does not really do it just as it has a jungle appearance banding colours that slightly different from the shades of most normals.

57. Sibling arrivals

These babies are the siblings of the babies shown in post 56 and 55. The normal hatched 26/07/2010 with a weight of 3 gram. The Tremper albino eclipse broke out of her egg the day after and was 3 gram. Both pictures were taken on 29/07/2010 with the Tremper looking ghostly on account of going into her first shed. So feeding time for her tomorrow.

56. And another Tremper albino

This baby was born Sunday 25th July 2010. The parents are Jungle Jane (Tremper albino jungle pattern ruby red eyed eclipse bred by Herpetoculture, USA) and Pharoah (reverse stripe Tremper albino bred by homegrown geckoc, Tonbridge UK) Incubation day was 59 and hatch weight was 3 gram.

55. A normal service has resumed

Up above is another baby from our very reliable Befi (Bell albino) and Pharoah (reverse stripe Tremper) that has just hatched out tonight 24/07/2010. The sibling egg is the size you would expect from a Tortoise so god knows when that will pop and what size of baby will spring out. The weight of this baby is the modal 3 gram and incubation period was 55 days. Can't recall how many eggs and offspring the parents have produced this season but it must be 10 at least. Not only that Befi is definitely carrying 2 more eggs.

54. The Mack has arrived.

Up above is a piccy of our first Mack snow hatchling of the 2010 season. Parents are Maggie (Mack snow) and Mo (normal but interesting). The two previous eggs from this combination produced normals which is in line with the expected 50:50 Mack snow to normal hatchlings when a normal and Mack snow are mated. The baby above weighed in at a chunky 4 gram (note the fat tail)with hatch date being 19/07/2010. With Incubation day was 53 or 54 which is quite short compared to some of our recent hatchlings. In the picture it looks like she has a heart shape on the back of the neck. Most probably that will fade when she starts to pile on the weight.

53. Sunday and Monday

These two Tremper albino babies arrived Sunday and Monday 18th & 19th July 2010. Both are the offspring of Scarlett (RAPTOR) and Nero (Diablo Blanco). So they come with very good hets. One has broken/jungle patterning and the other has the standard Tremper albino banding. Both weighed in at 3 gram. Incubation periods were 62 and 63 days.

52. Late arrival

This is the sibling of the baby in post 50. She arrived the next day 15/07/2010. incubation day was 61, weight 3 gram. Almost identical to her sister aprt from a faint possible paradox mark at the back of her head. We will keep an eye on that in the coming weeks.

51. A fairly normal hatch!

Here we have the prodigy of Marge (Hypo) and Mo (interesting normal)which hatched out 14/07/2010 after an incubation period of 63 days. Her hatch weight was 3 gram.

50. It's Blizzard time

A few weeks ago we didn't have any Blizzards to show off. How quickly things have changed to the point that we now have at least 1/2 a dozen youngsters. Above is our latest baby Blizzard which was found to have hatched out mid morning 14/07/2010. We are hoping her sibling will pop out in the next 24 hours. The parents are Slate our own bred Blizzard and Nero our resident Diablo Blanco who you will appreciate, if you have read our earlier posts, has been a very busy boy this breeding season. So het for Diablo blanco. Incubation day was 60 and she weighed in at the mode 3 gram.

49. Hello world!

This chunky little girl said hello to the world early evening 13/07/2010 and after a 64 day incubation period. That is 4 days longer than our previous longest incubation period. So all in all a nice surprise as we had virtually given up waiting and thought the egg might be a dud. Mum is Milly our own bred standard banded tremper albino. The sire is Nero a Diablo Blanco imported from USA breeder Steve Sykes. So het for Diablo blanco. In fact not looked at her eyes yet so you never know maybe she is a Diablo blanco? Have not weighed her at the moment but she is definitely a good sze from a big egg which might explain the long incubation?

48. 50 up!

By our crude calulations we reckon that one of the babies shown above, both hatched out on the evening of 10/07/2010, is our 50th successful hatch of the 2010 breeding season. Both are the offspring of Patricia (patternless) and Red Ron (red eyed Tremper albino jungle pattern eclipse). So het for Tremper. Incubation day was 60 and both weighed in at an average 3 gram.

47. Phantom birth?

This baby hatched out 06/07/2010 on incubation day 59 with a weight of 3 gram. At first view she looks very much like a Tremper albino. However, her dark band is slightly different to the usual Tremper and may be explained by the Dam (Fanta bred by Penfold) being a Phantom. The Sire was Dotty a normal hi-yellow het for Tremper albino. Must say we have got some remarkable offspring from this paring.

46. July babies

These two babies are our first hatches during July 2010. Apart from their patternation both pretty much share the same statistics. Parents are Red Ron (bred by the ARK) a jungle pattern red eyed eclipse Tremper albino and Diva a red eyed eclipse standard banded Tremper albino. Both hatched on incubation day 60 (05/07/2010) and weighed in at 2 gram. Both have got eclipse eyes.

45. Final June hatch

Up above is the last baby we had hatching out in June 2010. That was on 27/06/2010. Parents are befi our Bell albino and Pharoah a Reverse stripe Tremper albino. Her incubation day was 53 and hatch weight was 3 gram.

44. That was the week that was Tremper week!

Looking back on the last week we had 6 new baby Tremper type albinos hatch out. Above are 4 of them with the other 2 already announced on previous posts. The top baby hatched on incubation day 53 (21/06/2010) and weighed 3 gram. Parents are Scarlett ( RAPTOR) and Nero (Diablo Blanco) both bred by herpetoculture, USA.

Second in the list hatched out on incubation day 59 (22/06/2010) and weighed 3 gram. Must say a very nice partial reverse stripe which must be passed on from the Sire. Parents are Jungle Jane (tremper eclipse with jungle pattern bred by herpetoculture, USA) and Pharoah (reverse stripe Tremper albino bred by what was homegrown geckos).

Third from the top is the sibling of the baby in the top picture. She burst out one day later on incubation day 54 (22/06/2010) with a weight of 3 gram. Possibly a RAPTOR which we will confirm after a close look at her mince pies.

Finally the baby in the lower picture is the sibling of the baby in the second picture down. She hatched out on incubation day 60 and topped the scales at 4 gram.

These pictures were taken on 28/062010.

43. Welcome to Polokwane our new squad member.

This is Polokwane a African fat tail albino who we bought at the IHS Doncaster show 20/06/2010. Fingers crossed we can get her up to our breeding weight of 55 grams and get her broad and pear shaped for the 2011 breeding season.

42. Doncaster IHS show 20/06/2010

We had a great day out at the IHS Doncaster show on 20/06/2010. Setting off at 05:00 hours to make sure we got a head start on the traffic we arrived at the venue at just after 08:00 hours. So we could have easily had an extra half hour in bed. Especially as being still early in the seaso we only had 24 leos at acceptable selling weight up for sale. So it didn't take us long to get our table set up. Overall we thought it was a good show. Also plenty of space for exhibitors. especially compared to the Hamm show where there are twice as many tables elbowed into the same space.
The good news was that we almost sold off our entire stock with 21 of our leos being sold during the show. So a big thank you to those who bought our leos and we hope they do okay. We hope to see you all again at the next Doncaster IHS show in September 2010 for which we have already booked a table.

41. It's first shed time.

This little stunner of a Tremper albino with a subtle unbroken stripe was found hatched out on the morning of 20/06/2010. The piccy shows her going through her first shed on 25/06/2010. She is the sibling of the baby in post 39. So a great genetic pedigree and het for Diablo Blanco. Incubation day was 54 and she weighed in at 3 gram.

40. Kaka hatches as Kaka is sent off!

Named in honour of kaka to mark his sending off at the world cup. hatched out 19/06/2010 on incubation day 52 weighing 3 gram. Parents are Nell a high-yellow with the Sire being either Mo a classic normal or Wizzy a hi-yellow. Doubts about the sire arise from the fact that Nell took an awful long time to drop eggs and we introduced her to a second male in the intervening period.

39. A RAPTOR has arrived?

It's patternless, it has got eclipse eyes, was born 19/06/2010, incubation day 53 and weighed in at 2 gram. Parents are Nero a Diablo blanco and Milly a standard banded Tremper albino, so shes got an excellent pedigree from which we can expect Raptors.

38. Normals het for Tremper eclipse

Two more baby normals from parents Red Ron (red eyed Tremper eclipse) and Patricia (patternless)born 17th (upper photo) and 18th (lower photo) of June 2010. Incubation periods being 57 and 58 days. Both weighed in at 3 gram.

37. Blizzard two or is it Blizzard three?

Up above is the sibling of the baby in post 36. She hatched out the following day 12/06/2010 making it incubation day 60. Incidentally that is the longest incubation period we have had to date. Her weight was decent 4 gram. Title of the post infers this might be our third blizzard of the season as we had a baby a week or so ago that we initially described as an APTOR which we think might colour up to be a Blazing Blizzard with growth.

36. First Blizzard of the season

Its been a log wait for our first blizzard hatchling but well worth it as you can see from the baby above. she hatched out 11/06/2010 on incubation day 59. Weight was 2g and the parents are Slate and Nero.

35. Latest twin set

Here a piccy of a couple of normals or possibly hypos from the same clutch. Both hatched out 11/06/2010 on incubation day 53. One weighing 3 gram and the other 4 gram. Parents are Maggie (Mack Snow bred by homegrown geckos)and Mo who is an interesting classic normal that we bought from someone in Cromer.

34. Have we cocked up our record keeping?

This little cutey pie hatced out 10/06/2010. However, not the morph we really expected hence the question about our record keeping in the post title. According to the records on the box she came out of, the Dam was Nell who is is a normal hi- yellow with the Sire being either Mo a Mack snowish normal or even Wizzy who is a normal hi-yellow. Incudation day was 43 and she weighed in at about 1.5 gram. As she is an albino that does not really seem to fit in with the parentage. Indeed, she looks very similar to the image of the baby in post 20!

33. More wild caught bloodline babies delivered from the egg

Once more Benazir and her partner Mohammad have produced us two more babies. So far this season their total prodigy is 9 out of 12 eggs. On top of this they have 2 more eggs still at mid term in the incubator. The baby in the top image hatched 09/06/2010. Incubation day was 54 and weight 3 gram. The lower baby hatched the following day on incubation day 55 with a weight of 2 gram. The later baby is a little different to all her siblings in respect to her dark banding. If you look closely you might be able to see her forward most body band is uniquely diamond shaped.

32. IHS Doncaster reptile show 20th June 2010

We will be running a table at this show on 20th June 2010. Whilst still fairly early in the breeding season we will have a small selection of our Leopard geckos available for sale. If you are going please call by and say hello.

31. First of June's babies

Our first babies born in June 2010 are shown above, both were born on the first day of the month. The top picture was the first out and is a product of Diva and Red Ron incubation day was 54 and she weighed in at 2g with the digital scale flitting back and forth to 1g. So more probably more likely to be about 1.5g. Sadly the second egg from that clutch appears to have gone a bit manky. The lower baby shown poking its head out of the egg is the sibling of the baby in post 30. When she fully revealed herself she turned out to be a standard banded Tremper albino. Weight was 3g and incubation day was 53.

30. The last of May

Just a couple of snaps of the last baby from our May 2010 hatches. As you can see from the perlite stuck to her one of the piccys was taken straight after she got out of the egg. Still a bit wet behind the ears! Never 100% sure at such an early age but we think she is an APTOR. Her parents are Milly a standard banded Tremper and the sire is Nero our Diablo Blanco who came to us from Herpetoculture, USA last year. Hatch weight was 3g and incubation day was 52. So all in all 12 babys during May 2010. We are expecting far more during June and we already have 2 Trempers that had burst on the scene this morning.

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