Another year ends

Another year comes to an end....been kind of a crappy year.  Lost a number of snakes, crappy litters that were stillborn or slugs.  Whern I finally did have babies...not many were sold.  We did have a lot of fun at the Wasatch Reptile Expo tho!  Looking forward to a better year next year!!

Waiting

We are playing the waiting game here.....waiting for snakes to pop, eggs to hatch...

Unfortunately our first leopard gecko egg that hatched didn't make it.  =(

Was a cute little fella tho.  Hopefully the other eggs do better.

First gravid snake of 2011

This is Cariad, the thamnophis.com mascot.  She is due anytime now.  She bred in the fall surprisingly.  I put the males in with the females in the fall and let them stay together during the winter brumation period.  The male couldn't wait for spring!  Looking forward to babies from her!  She will produce double het albinos, Iowa and Nebraska albinos, plus orange phases on both albinos. Woo hoo!



new guy

This is a male albino checkered garter.  The picture doesn't do him justice.  His background color is light green, the yellow is real bright, and he has some orange spots around his purple checkers.  I need to get some better shots outside in natural light when it warms up.  He is in with my girls now but I have seen no signs of breeding....may put him down for a month and see if he will breed.



New year

Well, the new year is off and running.  Most of my breeders are out and together.  The only one I have seen breeding going on with is my red spotted garters.  That doesn't mean anything tho....that's the only ones that I saw signs from last year, but had a number of others breed.  My albino eastern is out now with the melanistic male from Joe Peck....hopefully they get busy!! 

I am also working on some exciting new stuff for later in the year....hopefully it works out!!  Be watching for new stuff later in the summer!!

Breeding

I have started bringing out my girls for breeding.  My  male red spot garter is a stud...bred with the female he was in with within hours!  He was put in with the other female a few days later...hope he gets busy!  I am also receiving a female anery red spot this week.  My male anery will be placed with her and hopefully they breed.  It will be interesting to see how the anery gene works out.  I also will be pairing my het albino plains with the het albino female, my red female, and the snow female.  Should produce some nice babies!

Happy new year!

The new year is started and I am waiting....next week some of my females will be coming out of brumation to start the breeding season!!  I have a couple of females that will be left in brumation for a bit....I just received on a breeder loan a male melanistic eastern that is het for Schuett albino!  I will be pairing him with my Schuett albino and then my orange female.  Should produce some albinos!  I also can't wait to see if my Puget Sound garters breed!  Those snakes were so popular and soooo many people want them!  I hope they each have a ton of babies!!