214. Meet the parents (14) for the 2012 breeding season.

This is Mohammad again with the second of his current three girlfriends. Should be no trouble spotting her as she is a hi-yellow in contrast to Mohammads debonair classical wild type coat of many colours. She goes by the name of Nell.

213 meet the parents (13) for the 2012 breeding season

These two fantablous specimens are both pure Macularius Macularius wild caught bloodlines. The big un is the male who goes by the name of Mohammad. He came to us via a breeder in Whaplode Drove Cambridgeshire, or is it Lincolnshire? That was in 2009. As you can see the female is a lot smaller. She is Benazir and was supplied to use by Steve Sykes.

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212. Shows at which we will be running a table at during 2012

We are pleased to announce that we will be attending the UK's first reptile show of 2012, and running a table, being organised by B.R.A.S. at Dagenham on SATURDAY 12th may 2012. YES SATURDAY! full details follow:

Castle Green Sports Centre
Gale Street
Dagenham, Essex
RM9 4UN
Café on site
Doors Open 10am to 3pm.
Featuring over 100+ Tables.
You Do Not Have To Be a Member to Book a Table OR Attend the Show
Private Breeders Selling Captive Bred Livestock
Commercial Traders Selling Live foods & Equipment
Ample Free Car Parking For All.

211. Meet the parents (12) for the 2011 breeding season

It's Max Planck, our Diablo Blanco, again. With him this time is our own bred Duchess who we had considered renaming Sarah Ferguson or Fergie on account of her being a bit of a porker. She is a RAPTOR so looking for this combination to produce us some red eyed stunners.

210 Meet the parents (11) for the 2012 breeding season

On this post we have Max Planck a Diablo Blanco that we obtained from the IHS Doncaster show September 2011. Not his best picture as he his in mid shed which might also account the mark on his nose. well its either from rubbing or from all that rutting he has been up to recently. With him is our own bred Diva who is a red eyed Tremper eclipse and also a very reliable breeder.

209. Meet the parents (10) for the 2012 breeding season

On this piccy we have got Demerara who is another of Isuzu's breeding partners for 2012. Again we are hoping for some interesting offspring.

208. Meet the parents (9) for the 2012 breeding season

These two bewts are Silveea (the one with the Morse code pattern) and Isuzu who has got some stunning patterns on his body,head and especially on the nose. Silveea was imported from Steves Sykes via Hamm and Houten in December just gone. Isuzu is a product of our breeding academy and the son of Fanta mentioned in early posts.Hoping for some synergy from their body patterns and bold striping in any offspring they produce.

207. Meet the parents (8) for the 2012 breeding season.

Meriva whose is girlfriend number 2 for Kabul is shown up above. She is the one with the very nice symmetrical head marking who is the reult of our own breeding program. once again hoping for some delicious Macularius Afghanicus leopard gecko crosses.

206.Meet the parents (7) for the 2012 breeding season

Latest pair on show below are Kabul a pure wild caught Afghanicius we imported from PACHERP back in 2010. The big girl alongside is Arosa who is one of our own bred Leos. Hoping for some nice Macularius Afghanicus crosses from this couple to help Kabul pay off some of his expensive transfer fee.

205. Meet the parents (6) for the 2012 breeding season

Following on from the previous post(204)we have here with Einstein another of his girlfriends who goes by the name of Topaz. She has a Bell base with stunning red eyes and possibly a hint of enigma in her genes. They were paired up at the finale of the 2011 breeding season and produced almost clones of the mother. Heres hoping for somemore this season.

204. Meet the parents (5) for the 2012 breeding season.

The photo below shows a couple of our Bell albinos paired for 2012. The male is Einstein who has a partial broad stripe that we imported from Steve Sykes in September 2010. The female with a regrown tail is Belletoni who we bought off Sazzle at the November 2010 Kidderminster show.

203. They're in the Box

As mentioned in post 203 our first eggs arrived yesterday are looking good and now neatly placed in our SIMs incubation box.

202. The eggs have landed!

Yippee in the last 30 minutes we have just harvested our first eggs of the year. They have been dropped by Fanta our Mack Tremper who has been tossing and turning in the egg box for the last couple of days. Fingers are crossed that they are fertile. Can vouch that one of them had a nice rosy red glow on one side indicating a healthy embryo. So if they are good eggs we are looking at an hatch ETA 42 to 60 days from now. We incubate at 28 celsius for female so most likely a 50 day plus incubation circa 8th March.

201 Meet the parents (4) for the 2012 breeding season.

This is Dallas mentioned on post 201 with another one of his recent girl friends who goes by the name of Patricia a plain Jane patternless. Plain she may be but she is a very reliable, dependable and prolific breeder. She lays in silly places and as you might be able to see is a nice pear shape at the rear end which always bodes well for female breeders.

200. Meet the parents(3) for the 2012 breeding season.

This pair is made up of Dallas the Broad stripe just entering shed and Poppy a hypo who carries some faint red stripe markings. We are hoping for some of the broad stripe and red tendency to show through on any offspring we may get.

199. Egg alert!

Looks like it is getting close to egg drop time for Fanta our Mack Tremper or maybe Phamtom. We have had the flirting and close liaison with Slurm the Mack Bell 22 December to 3rd Jan, then the isolation in her own maternity box, then a loss of appetite, then a shed and now she is in the egg lay box clawing and rearranging the perlite and moss. That usuallyy means eggs are on their way. Fingers crossed we don't have a cold snap to make her hold on.

198. Lust at first sight for Max Planck and Madame Curie

Certainly was and we didn't even have time to set the stopwatch as Max made an immediate B-line for Madame Curie and planted a big fat love bite on her as soon as he saw her. Guess she must be pumping out the lynx effect Pheromones by the bucket load.

197 Meet the parents (2) for the 2011 breeding season

We have just put this foursome together today. The whiteys are both Diablo Blancos. Comprising Max Planck and Madame Curie. Max is the smaller one. The darker Tremper is Ariane who we got from JMG at the March 2010 Hamm show. The box standard Tremper is Petula who is one of our own bred Leos.

196 Meet the parents for the 2011 breeding season

These two charmers are one of our breeding pairs for the 2011 season. Slurm a Mack Bell, the one with the yellow hue, is the male who we picked up from Phil AKA Slurms geckos at last Septembers Essex show. The Female is Fanta who we bought from Penfold at the 2009 ERAC show in Shenfield. She was labelled up as a Phantom, then we decided she was a Mack Tremper now we aren't sure. This is her third breeding season. W

e have paired her up with a Bell background male to try repeat some of the stunners she produced in 2010 when she was bred with a het Bell.

195. Passing of the Winter solistice brings the first salvo for the 2012 breeding season

So we are now on our way to more minutes and hours of daylight. For us that means we can start introducing the males to the females for breeding to commence. Accordingly we have today set up 5 RUBs with breeding pairs and one viv with a trio so that they can get familiar with each other.hopefully they will get very familiar with each other and produce us some eggs by the end of January. In the past we have had our first eggs by 22nd of January. Last year it was the first week of February. Fingers are crossed for good early eggs.

194. Houten show December 2011

We are running a table at the Houten show this Sunday (11th December 2011) we have so far prepared a good selection (31) of Leopard Geckos to put on sale from out table GG6. So saturday morning its off to Harwich to catch the morning ferry to the Hoek. Arriving there Saturday afternoon its on to Voerden for the hotel with an early morning rise to get into the show exhibition hall soon after the doors open.

193. New signing to breeding squad for 2012 season.

This is Goldust who joined us from Phil at Slurms geckos for an undisclosed fee at ERAC's September show. She has red/orange eyes and a Bell base so will go nicely together with our team captain Einstein who has broad stripe aspirations and has proved out to be carrying the red/orange eye gene. We are hoping they can get it on by mid breeding season.

192. Off season

Well folks not really much to write home about now the breeding season has ended. Main priority is to get all our females chunked up and fully fit for the 21st December when we will start putting our males into harems ready to start breading. We always do it this 21st December as it is the winter solistice and we are pretty convinced that Leos quickly pickup on the increasing daylight and the implication were haeding to summer. seems to work as we usually have our first eggs before the end of January.
In the next few posts and to keep the blog ticking over in the end of year lull we will post some piccy's of the latest additions to our 2012 breeding squad.

191. And then there was the final hatch of the season

This baby came out of our last good egg from this season on 24/09/2011. Think she is something in the order of our 116th baby produced this year. Parents are Arosa and Isuzu. Hatch weight was 3 gram after 49 days of incubation.

190. A pair of Mack snow's near seasons end

We have had Mack Trempers and supersnows but these are the only Mack snows from the 2011 breeding season. They hatched out 20th and 21st September after a 47 and 48 day incubation. Parents are the ever reliable Maggie and Rob Roy. Both hatched out weighing 3 gram. The piccy's below were taken 09/10/2011.

189. More catching up after the Donny and Essex shows

Yes it has been busy for the past two weeks as we had tables at the IHS Doncaster reptile show (18th September) and ERAC Essex reptile show (25th September). In the rush we didn't have the time to upload the baby normal wild types shown below which hatched 13th & 14th September. Must apologise about not being able to shed much light on their parentage or how long an incubation they had. Basically we have fouled up with our record keeping on these two.

188. Little and Large

These babies hatched out 7th and 8th September 2011, the smallest coming first. Both are from the same clutch of eggs produced by the ever reliable Patricia and Isuzu. The smallest baby showed as 1 gram on the scales at the point of hatch with the larger one being 4 times bigger at 4 gram. Incubation periods were 49 and 50 days.

187. Number eight's sibling?

Well we think it might be the sibling of the baby in the previous post (186). So pretty much the same vague biography. What we do know is that it hatched 05/09/2011 and weighed 3 gram.

186. Come in number 8

Kinda looks like a number 8 on the back of this baby which hatched out Sunday afternoon 04/09/2011. We are a bit confused about who the parents are, for this stunning baby which appears to have Bell type red eclipse eyes (RADAR). If so that would mean the two non red eye Bell's (Befi & Einstien) down in our records, that may be the parents, are het for RADAR. Alternatively maybe this babe is a really strong coloured Tremper. Time will tell as he/she grows larger and fully develops. Weight at hatch was a whopping 4 gram and incubation period is estimated at 54 -56 days

185. Final RAPTOR of the 2011 breeding season?

Don't think we have anymore RAPTOR eggs left in the incubator so this baby looks like it is probably the last RAPTOR hatch for 2011. It broke out of the egg last weekend (02/09/2011) after a 56 day incubation and weighing 3 gram. The parents are Duchess and Red Ron.

184. The normals are back again

These 2 babies are the offspring of Nell and Ahmed. One hatched last night 01/09/2011 and the other emerged from the egg this morning 02/09/2011. So 55 days incubation for one, that being the largest at 3 gram, and 56 days for the 2 gram midget.

183. Last of August and first in September

Both these babies are from the same clutch of eggs. The interesting normal hatched out late on last night 31/08/2011 and the patternless this morning 01/08/2011. Both weighed in at 3 gram. Not too sure of parentage at the moment so will check the records later on today. That said we suspect it is Patricia and Isuzu. this is because the baby patternless is the spitting image of patricia If so that means the stated parentage of the normal in post 180 is incorrect.

182. Ebony & Ivory in perfect harmony!

Contrasting day yesterday 30/08/2011 with thes two babies hatching out. The Whitey is we think the sibling of the Mack Tremper in the previous post. So same boigraphic details as far as parents are concerned. she/he weighed in at 4 gram at hatch. The supersnow is out of Maggie and Rob Roy. It is the sixth supersnow they have produced this season. Hatch weight was 4 gram. Can't say what the icubation period was as we have not got our record log at hand. It is certainly 50 plus days.

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181. Whats pink and white? It's a Mack Tremper!

This baby hatched yesterday 29/08/2011 following a 54 day incuabtion and weighing in at 4 gram. Parents are Fanta our broken banded Mack Tremper and Rob Roy our Mack RAPTOR.

180. One more wild type from the incubator

This baby hatched out 24/08/2011 following 57 days in the incubator, weight at hatch was 3 gram. Parents are Patricia and Isuzu who have now given us quite a few babies this season.

179. Nearly a twin bit not quite so!

This is the sibling of the baby in post 178. This pretty little babe popped out of the egg about 8 hours later and weighed 3 gram. So pretty much the same biograpbhic details. With the big brown spot on it's nose we think this is even prettier than its sibling, which takes some beating.

Just one more little normal to announce and upload then we will have fully caught up with our back log of hatch announcements.

178. Look at the red mince pies on this bewt

A very pleasant surprise it was when this baby was found to have hatched on mid morning Monday 22/08/2011. Not only that it got better in the evening when the clutch sibling also hatched and also had a stunning pair of red eyes. We were expecting some nice geckos from the eggs but not red eyes as we were unsure what genes the sire (Einstein was carrying. He is basically a reject from Steve Sykes (Herpetoculture) Bell broad stripe group who's eyes are pretty plain. So from his offspring it looks like he is het for RADAR. On the other hand the Dam is quite a stunning bell patternless with brillant red eyes who we picked up last year from Geordie at Atlantis aquatics in Great Yarmouth. Weight of this baby at hatch was 3 gram and incubation took 54 days.

177. Special needs arrangements for this babe.

This baby hatched out Saturday 20/08/2011 and is the sibling of the normal baby in post 176. So biographic details are nearly the same except for a 54 day incubation. It really struggled from the start and limped out of the egg with great difficulty. The piccy was taken today 23/08/2011 and the baby is still extremely wobbly and unsure on its feet. So it is going to take a lot of TLC to get this tiny tot throught the next few weeks to the point we can say it is securely established.

176. Six day old normal

This baby hatched out 16/08/2011 following 50 days in the incubator. It has very dark bands so almost certainly a classic normal type when it matures. Parents are Mohammad and Izzy and hatch weight was recorded as 3 gram.

175. One more to catch up with

And a nice one this is to catch up on. If we recall correctly our 5th supersnow this season.
This babe is the sibling of the supersnow in post 174. So same biography apart from an extra day of incubation.

174. Catch time after the big show

Blimey, what with preparing, then clearing up after our attendance at the Kempton show on the 14th August we are a bit behind in annoucing recent hatches. The 4 babies down below all hatched out 09/08/2011. Two normals one with an interesting jungle pattern, a Mack Tremper and a supersnow can't be bad as the end of the 2011 breeding season comes into sight. Egg production has been slow this month but we still have a few females carrying eggs.
All the images below were taken today (22/08/2011). With the rush and general hussle and bussle of the past two weeks we did not get their hatch weight.
The upper normal is out of Patricia and Isuzu. Incubation period for this babe was 50 days.
Second babe in the sequence is from Rob Roy and Maggie with incubation period being 49 days.
Third down and second normal of the day comes from Patio and Isuzu. Incubation period is recorded as 50 days.
Finally, the Mack Tremper is from Fanta and Rob Roy with our records showing it was a 61 day incubation.

173. Current availabilty.

To see how some of our 2011 hatchlings have got on you can visit our website at
http://lowestoftleopardgeckos.co.uk/available-for-sale/
and see more recent piccys. Must point out that we have many more leos available than is currently uploaded. This arises because someone has been copying our piccys, without our permission, and uploading them onto their facebook page/album and adding a bit of a premium to the price we have listed. Without naming names local East Anglian yokels will probably be able to work out who this is from the style of our piccys. In consequence we have been rationing the pictures we have uploaded on our official website.

172. Number three from yesterday.

This babe is the one mentioned in the previous post (171). It is the sibling of the normal in that post. So biography is exactly the same including weight. Well apart from the fact that it broke out of the egg about 8 hours later.

171. Yesterday's prodigy

These two babies both hatched out yesterday morning 08/08/2011. The sibling also hatched in the evening but we haven't got a piccy yet.
The blizzard and probably a blazing blizzard, as it is very pale,is the offspring of Red Ron and and Duchess. Weight at hatch was 3 gram and incubation took 63 days which is the logest we have had this year. Do hope are records are correct?
The normalish looking one is from Lynn and Mohammad who have produced us quite a few this year. weight at hatch was 3 gram and incubation period rolled out to 59 days.

170. Afghan Asylum seekers produce prodigy

After what has been a fairly poor breeding season this year we were over joyed to find that one of our Afghanicus eggs had hatched out this morning 06/08/2011 to produce the baby shown below. This comes after the previous eggs, at least 4, had turned manky during incubation. The baby below is quite tiny, as might be expected, and shows a remarkable 2 gram on the scales. Must say she/he does not look big enough for 2 gram, maybe the scales are not too precise. Incubation took 54 days and the parents are Kabul and Sangin.

169. All quite on the western front so to speak

Sure is quite over the last week as far as the arrivals suite is concerned with nothing to report. Once again we have had a lot of duff eggs. We are expecting a few more babies in the coming days but certainly not as many as we expected when we embarked on this breeding season. Also we are getting no new eggs of late. Quite a few of our females are gravid but they have definitely slowed up as far as the production of eggs is concerned. Fingers are crossed that we get a bit of an Indian summer with a flourish of eggs in the coming weeks.