Gecko Babies Blog 2011

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12-31-11: A quick thank you to all of our friends and clients who helped make 2011 a great season for us. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!!

11-14-11: We just received another great shipment from JMG Reptiles last week. We received a 1.2 group of Oreo Fat Tails (het females) and these two beautiful Toffee Belly Hognose snakes. Really looking forward to breeding them to our Anaconda het Toffee male.

Oreo Fat Tail	Toffee Belly Hognose	Toffee Belly Hognose

08-29-11: So this little guy was our favorite Anaconda we produced this year. He is also 100% het Albino :)

Anaconda Hatchling Just Hatched	Anaconda Hatching After Shed

08-24-11: Lots of exciting things happening with the hognose project right now. Our latest Conda x Albino clutches are currently pipping and so far we've produced a couple of very nice Anacondas 100% het Albino. Here is a photo of one that just hatched a few hours ago and an updated photo of Snickers enjoying his dinner tonight.

Snickers Enjoying Dinner	Anaconda Female Just Hatched

08-23-11: Hatched this cute Aberrant White Out last night and its clutchmate :)

Aberrant White Out 1 Hour Old	White Out 1 Hour Old

08-21-11: Clutches five and six have started to hatch tonight! These are from an Anaconda Hognose x Albino Female (two different females). There looks to be 16 good eggs from their second clutches combined and we are hoping for some more nice Anacondas 100% het Albino. We have one more clutch left for the season that should be hatching in about another week. That is from an Anaconda x 100% het Purple Line Red Extreme Albino.

Western Hognose Hatching

08-06-11: Hatched out these beautiful clutchmates tonight :) The first one out was a Patternless White Out and a few hours later a Patternless Stripe White Out hatched. So far we have been getting great odds on this pairing.

Patternless White Out 1 Hour Old	Patternless Stripe White Out 1 Hour Old

07-29-11: Wow! What else can I say.. how cool are these guys?! These are our first Patternless White Out & Patternless Fat Tails we've produced. I really love the Striped Patternless White Out baby and I am hoping for a Striped Patternless next. We have a few more clutches still incubating so hopefully we hit the odds.

Patternless White Outs & a Patternless	Patternless & Patternless Stripe White Out	Patternless

07-27-11: Really happy with how our first clutch of Anaconda x Albino Western Hogs turned out. We bred our Anaconda male to our large 400g+ Albino female. She laid a second clutch of eggs that are still incubating. The babies hatched out nice and fat and we are very excited to see what her next clutch produces. We have several more clutches incubating as well from another Albino female, and a Purple Line Extreme Red female.

Anaconda 100% het Albino "Snickers"	Anaconda 100% het Albino	Anaconda 100% het Albino

07-26-11: Anaconda 100% het Drama! lol.. you have to love these guys they are so cute. He's just fine.. when they are scared they roll over on their backs and stick their tongues out to play dead. He did not like the camera. He was our first Anaconda that we hatched here and we've named him Snickers and will be keeping him. He is also 100% het Albino.

Anaconda 100% het Albino

07-14-11: Produced our first two ever Patternless Stripe White Outs tonight!

Patternless Stripe White Out 1 Hour Old	Patternless Stripe White Out 1 Hour Old

07-02-11: Another cool Aberrant White Out.

Aberrant White Out 1 Hour Old

06-12-11: Got a nice surprise tonight from one of our "special females." We produced our first two Aberrant White Out Fat Tails 100% het Patternless.

Aberrant White Out 1 Hour Old

06-01-11: Spent a few hours tonight working on the rest of our Hatchling Racks getting them all setup and ready to go for the rest of our hatchling season. We mainly had to get the electrical cords hooked into a homemade power board controlled by three Helix Control Systems. Right now we have a total of 15 rack systems stacked 3 high. This gives us 300 individual hatchling boxes to house our various hatchlings in. We built homemade rolling castors so they can be easily moved around for cleaning and access. I will update our Facility Page with more info and photos once everything is done.

Reptile Room Hatchling Racks

05-31-11: Hatched another White Out 100% het Patternless tonight. Still waiting for the clutchmate to hatch.

White Out Fat Tail 1 Hour Old

05-25-11: Our first pair of Bold Bandits hatched out today.. so cute! This project is def going to be one of my favorites! Will have lots more hatching out later this season.

Bold Bandit 1 Hour Old	Bold Bandit 1 Hour Old

05-24-11: Well last night was another first for us here we hatched out our first RADAR! It was very exciting I went downstairs at about 4am to do the final egg check of the night and there it was! It took seven eggs to finally hit on the odds but it was def worth it. Over the last couple of weeks we have also produced some other exciting geckos including 3 White Out 100% het Patternless Fat Tails and a bunch of awesome Jungle Bell Albinos. Tons more incubating as well. On the snake side we've had our first Albino Hog lay 23 eggs and are waiting for more from our two Purple Line Extreme Red het Albinos. All were bred to our Anaconda male so hopefully we'll get a lot of nice babies from that :) The ball pythons are also getting close to laying and hopefully we'll get a few nice clutches from them this year. Or not, they might just decide not to lay. Gotta love balls :)

Our First RADAR Produced 1 Hour Old

05-17-11: Two more White Out 100% het Patternless Fat Tails hatched today! They were clutchmates.

White Out Fat Tails 1 Hour Old	White Out Fat Tails 1 Hour Old

05-09-11: More Jungle Bell Albinos possible het RADAR hatched tonight.. been checking them for days nothing.. ignore them for two hours go downstairs and these two were running all around the egg container!

Our First RADAR Produced 1 Hour Old

05-08-11: Hatched out our first White Out Fat Tail tonight! It's also 100% het Patternless.

Our First RADAR Produced 1 Hour Old

04-19-11: Hatched out our first 2011 Fat Tail Tonight! Just an Albino Banded but still cute none the less. Lots more to be hatching later this year!

Jungle Bell pos het RADAR Hatching	Jungle Bell pos het RADAR 1 Hour Old	Jungle Bell pos het RADAR 1 Hour Old

04-18-11: Hatched out our first 2011 Fat Tail Tonight! Just an Albino Banded but still cute none the less. Lots more to be hatching later this year!

Our First Albino Fat Tail Produced 1 Hour Old

03-28-11: Hatched out this pretty Jungle Bell Albino 66% possible het RADAR tonight.

Jungle Bell pos het RADAR 1 Hour Old	Jungle Bell pos het RADAR 1 Hour Old

03-22-11: UPDATE! Great way to start the season! We produced our first Hyper Xanthic RAPTOR tonight from a two egg clutch. Its clutchmate was an Eclipse Hyper Xanthic het RAPTOR.

Hyper Xanthic RAPTOR 1 Hour Old	Hyper Xanthic RAPTOR 1 Hour Old

03-22-11: First Leopard Gecko of the 2011 season hatched today! It's an Eclipse Hyper Xanthic het RAPTOR. The clutch mate should hatch within the next few hours and we are hoping to hit on the Hyper Xanthic RAPTOR. The dad is a Hyper Xanthic RAPTOR and the mom is an Eclipse Hyper Xanthic het RAPTOR.

Eclipse Hyper Xanthic RAPTOR 1 Hour Old

03-04-11: We received our new shipment of Boaphile Plastics Rhino RaXX this week. We ordered another 13 stack of their 20 rack Sterilite systems in preparation for hatchling season. With eggs being laid almost everyday now we are definitely going to need these racks! We are still in the process of unpacking them and we need to build a pedestal base system to fit into the new Gecko Room. I will update more on that soon.

UPS Was Not Happy With Us

03-01-11: Brumation Ends! We brought the Western Hogs out of brumation today and I'm happy to report they all seem to be just fine and ready to go! We'll bring them back up to temps slowly over the next few days and keep an extra close eye out on them for any problems.

02-13-11: Decided to try out our revised lightobx with a new photo shoot tonight of a couple of holdback Hyper Xanthics we've decided to keep. The first gecko is a Mack Snow Hyper Xanthic and displays impressive amounts of dark bold banding throughout her body. We are hoping to develop and increase this trait with future breedings. The second gecko is a Hyper Xanthic x Bold Stripe and she displays an insane amount of high bright yellow throughout her entire body. As you can see, she has very little dark bold markings.

2010 GB Mack Snow Hyper Xanthic

2-10-11: Dramatic changes to our website are now completed! We have been upgrading the site slowly over the past week or so with an updated look and feel. With nearly 60 pages to redo it's been quite the process. Hopefully everyone likes the new layout. In addition to the colors and graphics, we've added a new script to our available pages that will popup the image without creating a new window. This will make things much nicer when viewing our available animals. The script is called Highslide and costs $29 to use on commercial websites. It is well worth the money!

02-04-11: Eggs spotted! Several of our Leopard Geckos are already showing eggs in their bellies and have begun the digging and scratching in their boxes in preparation for egg laying. We are expecting a huge amount of awesome geckos this year! In anticipation to that we have created an Article entitled How to Incubate Leopard Gecko Eggs. Check it out and let us know what you think!

How To Incubate Leopard Gecko Eggs	How To Incubate Leopard Gecko Eggs	How To Incubate Leopard Gecko Eggs

01-01-11: Western Hognose Brumation Begins! Today we officially added our Hogs into brumation. For the last several weeks we have stopped offering them food and slowly begun dropping their temperatures a few degrees everyday. They are currently being cooled down at 58 degrees and we will keep them there until March 1st when we will bring them out of brumation and being warming them up and offering them food. I am always so paranoid during this time, I open them up and check on them at least 3 or 4 times a week! I'll make it up to them in March I promise!