Daytona was alot of fun this year, and I can even blame the event for not posting in a while. I helped a buddy work his table in Daytona this year, so I did have work to do, but I managed to get around a bit. There were some cool things there, and I managed to pick up a new project. I have wanted to get into Blood Pythons for a while, and this is the year that we will be doing it. We picked up a Red Stripe Het. Albino Blood female from Keith McPeek, and we talked to Tracy Barker about our next Blood purchase. So, hopefully in a month or so, we can make the other additions. Below is the female we got from Keith.

We alsoxwere able to add another long awaited purchase this year. My long term goal with our Nicaraguan Boa project is to make a T+ Albino Motley. We have a Het T+ male and produced some Poss Hets this year. Thereforethe only thin missing was a Motly male. Below is our new Motley Nicaraguan from Exotics by Nature.

Lastly, we were finally hatched out our first Corn Snakes ever. This is mostly just a fun project for us, but it is always exciting to see snakes hatch. This was a breeding between out Hypo Lavender male to a Candy Cane female. These babies are tripple Hets, and look normal, but it was still exciting. We ended up with 3.5 babies. Below is a pic of the pippers and the first 2 babies out of the egg.

I do have one last picture (I promise, the last one). This is the first of a couple picsof Ball Python holbacks (the next picture contains snakes that haven’t hatched yet). Pictured are a Hypo Mojave female, a Pastel Yellow Belly female, a Pastel Ivory and a Mojave Spider Het. Hypo male. Enjoy the pic, and have a great week.

I know it hasn’t been a week, but I had some snakes shed that I was excited about, so I thought I would take a pic. In the pic are our first Pieds ever. We bought our pair of Hets in 2004, and have since added a Pied male. This happens to be her first clutch, and consequently our first ever Pieds to hatch. Included in the pic is our second ever Hypo Cinny. I love these guys, and this one looks better than the one we hatched last year. Enjoy the pic

We also happened to get another first. We had four clutches laid in one day on Monday. That was a first for us. They also happen to be great clutches, with potential to hatch, Sable Spiders, Enchi Spiders, BumbleBees and Sterlings. We should have some great fun cutting in about 52 days.

Lastly, we got our 50th clutch today. This happens tobe another first. We have never had 50 clutches before, so another landmark has been reached. This also happens to be one of our most anticipated clutches of the year. Our Cinny Het. Hypo bred his sister and she laid 5 eggs. If she proves out, we could hatch a Super Cinny Hypo. Wish us luck.

We were on vacation all last week, and got home this past Saturday. Plenty happened while we were gone, and he we are to document it. The first thing to happen while we were gone was our first ever Pieds hatched. We started our Pied project in 2004, and finally hatched 2 males. They are in shed right now, so once they get some clean skin, we’ll get some pics. Our second ever Hypo Cinnamon hatched while we were away as well. I was hoping for a female, but we got a male instead. That’s ok, he is beautiful just the same. Same as the Pieds, I’ll get pics once he sheds.

The next excitement that occured while we were gone was some eggs being laid. Our first shot at Axanthic Pinstripes was laid. We got 9 eggs from our Pin Het Axanthic to an Axanthic girl. Man I hope I get some luck here. We also got a clutch of eggs from a Pastel Poss. Het. Genetic Stripe bred to one of his Pastel daughters. We got 8 eggs from this female. I sure hope we can prove her out and get some Pastel G-Stripes or even a Super Pastel G-Stripe, but I have never hatched a Super Pastel, so those would be just fine as well.

Lastly for the week, while we were away, our Pastel Mystic and Mystic shed. I thought that since this project is fairly new, I would get some good comparison shots so that everyone could see what this gene looks like compared to other animals. The first picture shows a Pastel Yellow Belly on the left, a Pastel Mystic on the right, and a Pastel in the rear.

This picture shows a Normal on the left, a Mystic on the right and a Mojave in the rear.

Thanks for reading, and check back next week, for some other fun stuff.