Also in this post, I wanted to post a pic of our new Pastel Clown. We did a trade in Daytona and were fortunate enough to pick up this girl. She should make a nice addition to the breeding season in a couple years.

Next up is our new Orange Dream female. I have been wanting one of these for a while, and happened to see one on an USARK auction hosted on Bush League Breeders Club. Well, we bid, and were lucky enough to win. Thanks to Oz at Ozzy Boids for donating this beautiful animal.

Lastly, we have some more cool stuff hatching in the next couple weeks, so stay tuned. I can say that I just cut a clutch of eggs, and after about 30 eggs, we finally hit on the Axanthic Pinstripe. This is myt second year trying, and I finally hit it. I do have one more clutch later in the season, so maybe we can get another.

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The other excitement for us this year was proving out 2 66% Possible Het Lavender girls that we got from John Piro. We still have two that didn’t lay this year, and one that we either disproved or missed on this year with 5 eggs. Either way, we finally have a trio of Lavenders to watch grow and develop color.

I hope everyone enjoys the pics, and stay tuned, as we will be posting another first ever cross next week. We actually have two of them in the egg right now.

Lastly, I am posting a pic of our newest addition. Below is an Albino Cinnamon girl that we picked up from Exotics by Nature. I love how these things mature.

Thanks for reading, and come back and see us, as now that new stuff is happening every day, I am hoping to update the blog at least once per week (although I have been updating the birthing record about 3 times a week).

The first clutch to show happens to be my son’s first clutch. The female is a Pastel that he picked out in 2006 from some babies we produced. Even though she is a girl, he named her Nemo. At the beginning of breeding season, we thought she would go, so Bryce took a trip over to the male racks to pick out the male he wanted to breed to his Pastel. He picked the Spinner. So, his first clutch of seven eggs made it into the bator from Spinner to Pastel. I hope you get some Spinner Blasts buddy.

The next clutch that was a ball of fun was the clutch contest clutch for Ball-Pythons.net. This is a clutch that we do every year, in which we put as many males in with the female as possible. When she lays, we post up her clutch on the web, and let the members guess what the first snake to hatch will be. The correct guesser wins the snake. The contest can be viewed here. 2010 BP.net Clutch Contest Below is the pic of the girl on 8 huge eggs.

Lastly, I will post a clutch that was anticipated, but did not have the desired outcome. My wife has always loved Caramel Glows. So, we thought we would start our project this year. But, I wanted a little something extra in the project. So, I put my Hypo Cinnamon male in with a Caramel Albino female. Many people have doubted the fertility of Caramel females, and while I have seen a few Caramel girls on eggs, I wanted to see it with my own female. I was excited about this pairing, but half way through the season the girl started looking thin (she went off feed long before most of the other girls). I pulled her out of the breeding program in February, and thought her follicles were shrinking. After her last shed, I palpated her, and still believed that her follicles were shrinking (what I was actually feeling is displayed in the pic below). I didn’t mark down her shed as a POS, because I didn’t think that was what it was. However, I checked on her from time to time. Well, she finally laid, and it was not what I wanted to see. We will still try again next year with some more Caramel girls, and we have one egg that might make it, but the baby will be tiny (the boob egg weighs 32.3 grams).

We’ll see you again next week, and we should have some pics of our first clutch of eggs cut. I think there might be a couple very cool animals in there.

Next up is our first addition of the 2010 year. Here is our new Pewter Mojave female. I don’t know what she will breed first, but I have some time. I am thinking something in the Mystic complex.

Lastly, we have been getting eggs non-stop. On averqage, we are getting 1-3 clutches per day, and will probably have about 47 clutches in the incubator before we even hatch our first clutch to hatch will be our only shot at a Killer Spinner this year. It is going to be exciting. Today we put a clutch of Mojave to VPI Axanthic in the bator, so that will be a fun one as well in about 60 days.


Stay tuned for more updates and pics as the season progresses.


On a final note, we will be vending at the following shows coming up: Repticon Baton Rouge this weekend, WARE in September, NARBC Tinley in October and NARBC Houston in October. Make sure to check out our first published advertisement in the NARBC program.

Meet Pong. It is the larger one of the two.

Meet Ping. The smaller one.

Here is a shot of Pong’s imperfection.

Ping’s imperfection is shown here.

Here is a shot of Ping and Pong when I introduced them to their new enclosure. (p.s. They are named after a teacher of mine in highschool that had a pair of ducks with the same name. I thought the names were great, since they aren’t gender specific, and we don’t know the sexes yet). Sorry the grass is so long, but we just got back from vacation and haven’t cut it yet.

This last pic is of the enclosure for the time being. It is made out of 1″ PVC and 1″ x 1″ mesh on the side and 1″ x 1/2″ mesh on the sides. The mesh is attached in the corners with fence ties, and UV resistant zip ties in the middle. There is some expanded PVC on 2 sides and one half of the top for shade. They are positioned under a tree that allows them shade for about 75% of the day. The full sun is early morning sun, which should not get them too hot, although we will watch it closely over the next couple weeks. The enclosure is secured to the ground with U-stakes, so that they cannot lift it, nor can animals get in. We made this enclosure for now, so that it could be moved if they start to demolish too much flora in the area. I will start building there next enclosure in the next couple weeks. Next up is a 16′ x 16′ cinder block enclosure, that will eventually be the corner of a one acre pen. That will take some time, but time is one thing I have with these guys.

We actually took these photos last weekend, and I am just getting them up on here now. In the past week, these guys have eaten ravenously. They both like Mazuri tort chow, and turnip greens. They love yellow squash, and Ping hates pears. They both like peaches and mango. They seem to be settling in nice, and I am sure I will post some more pics of them in the coming weeks, months and years (centuries too if I lived that long).

I did lie a bit, as our first eggs came about a month ago, but those were corn snake eggs, and I was really meaning Ball eggs. On that note, our Anery Kenyan Sand Boa looks like she is going to give us a litter this year as well, and she was bred by our Paradox Snow male. We will get our first Anery hatchlings ever. We did not breed our Nic boas this year, and obviously our Blood python stuff is not to size yet.

With all of that said, I hope to come and update blog posts more often that I have been, as it is starting to get interesting. We took last off, and went on the family vacation. While we were there, I had a good friend of mine, Sean Bradley, helping with all of the animals, and pulling eggs as they cam. Sean pulled another 6 clutches for us, and we got another 2 when we got home. So we are up to 9 in the bator, and it looks like we will have in the neighborhood of 70 clutches this year.

Until next time, thanks for coming, and good luck to all with their eggs this year.

The new breeder male racks:

The new adult Ball room starting to fill up:

Tub O’ Balls(remember 18 males, can you see them all?):

New Tiger male (Enchi x Desert):

The start of the new incubator(walk-in style):

We had a great time at Chicago, and were able to sell some snakes, and we even did a trade for 2 new animals. We were able to pick up an 08 Desert female and an 09 Tiger male (Enchi Desert). We are waiting for the Tiger to get shipped, and as soon as we get him, I’ll post pics of them both. Hopefully we will be able to do that next week. I have also been busy trying to update the available section of the website, so go check that out if you are looking for your next addition.

On a production note, I am very excited to have received our very first litter of Kenyan Sand Boas. I apologize for the pic, but I pulled these from mom right before walking out the door to drive to Chicago. This was a result of breeding our Super Flame male toa Flame female. These guys have some really vibrant colors, and I can’t wait to see some of them grow. We ended up with 4.4, so I can’t complain about the ratios. They are pictured below. Also pictured below them are our first ever Clown Ball Pythons. I have been in need of a few female Clowns, and I got my wish with 2 of them. This was from breeding our Clown male (direct descendant of the Circus Ball) to a Het Clown female that was fathered by a BHB Reduced patterned Clown male. As you can see, we were able to produce one very reduced girl. She won’t be going anywhere. The entire clutch consisted of 1.2 Clowns and 0.2 Hets (we got very lucky with Clown Hets this year, having produced 2.10 of them). Enjoy the pics, and stop by next week, as I plan to get back to updating this every week again.

Now for the horrible hatching week. Probably our most anticipated clucth of the year hatched yesterday. Clutch #42 was from breeding our Pinstripe Het. VPI Axanthic to a VPI Axanthic girl. She gave us 1 slug, 1 infertile egg and 9 good eggs. Man I was excited, how could I miss this. Well, we got 6 Pin Het Axanthics, 2 Het Axanthics and 1 Axanthic. Hey, we have hatched some good stuff, and still have some interesting stuff in the bator, so I figured I would hit the Axanthic Pin in one of the other clutches (we have 2 more shots from Het Axanthic girls). Clutch #43 was from a Pastel Poss. Het. G-Stripe bred to his Pastel daughter. Well, he didn’t prove out, or maybe it was her, but we didn’t get any Super Pastels either. Nor did we get any Normals. 8 Pastels crawled out of the eggs. Man, it can’t get any worse can it. Well, I cut my Sable to Spider clutch. 1 Sable, 2 Normals, 1 Spider, and the last egg was a fully formed dead Sable Spider. Gee Whiz. Last kick in the pants was our Cinny Het Hypo bred to his Cinny Sister. We hoped she would be Het Hypo. Well, No Cinny Hypos, No Hypos, and guess what, no Super Cinnys either. 2 Cinnys and 3 Normals. Hopefully our luck will turn around.

On a brighter note, though, we do have at least 1 Stinger Bee in the egg, and possibly 2, along with a very reduced Enchi.

Lastly, I took a pic of some of the holbacks from this year. We waited until some of these shed before taking the pic, so taht is the reason for the delay in updates for some of these animals. Pictured clockwise from the top left are a Genetic Stripe female, a Mystic Potion female, a Sable Pinstripe female, a Pastel Spotnose male and in the center, a Pewter Het Pied male.

Enjoy the pics, and thanks for reading,