Well here i am again.
I do apologise for the long gap in between my posts of late but i have a lot of personal stuff going on at the moment so haven't really been as focused on the site as i should of been.
Well since my last post as suspected our Female Water Dragon laid 6 eggs pictures of which are on the blog gallery page of the site, i have also had 5 Leopards Geckos hatch 2 of which are going tomorrow, i've also had 4 more Gecko eggs laid as well as finding one of my Female Corns laying her eggs this morning.
I don't know how many there are yet but on last count there were 12. Hopefully she'll be finished soon and i'll be able to move them and see exactly how many there are.
The Snow Phase Kingsnake has now been rehomed, we felt that with everything else going on we couldn't give it the attention it needed so it has been rehomed.
We have also lost yet another Corn Snake, Moulder one of our older females (approx 7-8yrs old) has passed. Nothing sinister going on thankfully just appears to be old age. The vet couldn't find anything.
We have decided now though that we are going to concentrate for the time being on replenishing the ranks with some new babies of different colours.
And finally 2 of the 3 royals we have decided to finally eat something last week their first feed since October.

Well the latest news isn't really the latest as i haven't posted for a while. The Leopard Geckos are producing eggs every month but for some reason this year the eggs aren't doing so well, out of 16 eggs laid only 5 are incubating the rest have failed, at least the 5 still in incubation are looking good.
Other news is that my Female Water dragon is gravid and digging around her egg laying box so hopefully by the end of this week possibly next we should have some Water Dragon eggs in incubation.
Still no sign of any Corn snake eggs although one of my females has looked a little gravid and this week refused to feed and is now coming into shed so watch this space, there may be a clutch on it's way yet.
We have also got 3 new members to the family they consist of an Male Amber Corn, A female Colombian Rainbow Boa and an unsexed Snow phase Californian King snake. The king and boa have come from my brother in law as they are emigrating and can't take them with them. The boa is 4.5ft long weighs 1.5kg and has been named Ripple, the King hasn't had any stats done asx of yet but is a bit of a nippy so and so, also hasn't got a name yet. The Amber corn is an 06 baby and should be ready for breeding next year, we have named him Nugget.
All photos will be posted on the Blog and Current collection galleries soon.
Boscy our bosc monitor has now been rehomed and we have also rehomed Peugot our little leopard Gecko.
All 7 (as one escaped) of Fanta's and Stripeys hatchlings have been sold with the exception of one which we are keeping for future breeding projects, it is a male and has been named Sunkist, pictures are already on the site.

All of Fanta's hatchlings apart from my hold back and one other have had 4 feeds now and are ready to go. As for the 2 that haven't had their 4th feed i know 1 is in shed and the other is coming up for one so more than likely down to that. I only have 2of these hatchlings available now as well so doing really well.
The male Caramel that escaped has been recaught and is back in his new hopefully escape proof viv. He is none worse the ware for his escape and was actually found back in the viv he escaped from in the first place.
I have finally posted the pic of the Water dragons mating on the site and have updated a few pages on there today.
I have had to remove my Corn morph guide however this being due to a mis understanding concerning some of the picture content on it so i decided to take it off and re-design a new sheet. How long that will take i'm not sure but due to lack of time at the moment it will probably be at least a couple of months.
Any way thats all there is to report at the moment.

Lets start with the good news first. The 1 hatchlling that didn't take from strike ate over night that niht so has taken it's first feed. They will all be due again on Thursday so watch this space for an update. Also i moved my solitory female Leopard Gecko in with my Established trio so hopefully she will breed with the male and produce some good babies.
Now for the not so good.
We took Fanta (mummy of the hatchlings) to the vets shortly after she took the 2nd feed and kept it down to see if what he recommended in terms of rehydrating her as although she was having luke warm baths and visully seeing her drink she still didn't appear to be getting rehydrated quick enough and i was getting severly worried. When we took her to the vets it was to keepgoing on the course of action we were taking as well as syringing a few ml of water down ourselves and he gave her a shot of saline to help the process along. He again was worried by how quick she had lost the weight and said to keep an eye on the feeding.
A few days later we gave her a feed and as usual she struck and coiled and continued to much, however the following day she brought the mouse back up. I rung the vet and took her down a day later where it was decided to euthanise her as just from the reguring of that 1 feed had undone all the work we had done and she was in a worse state than ever so so on Thursday 28th Febuary she passed away.
Since then may 2 male escape artists have got out again, we found one of them coiled up in our wardrobe but the Caramel Male is no where to be seen at the moment. I'm betting on him ending up under the stairs as whnever he has escaped before he has always been found in there be it a couple days after escaping or a month after escaping, i'm fairly certain he will turn up though.
So thats all the news at the moment. Still haven't got round to posting the pics from my previous entry on the site yet so will do that this afternoon.

Well hopefully the water dragons may be producing eggs this year, early this morning i caught my male and female water dragon mating so fingrs crossed there will be the pitter patter of tiny water dragons in a few months time if the mating was successful.
In other news Fanta has eaten and held down 2 feeds so hopefully she will start to improve. Her hatchlings mean while have had their first feed today with 7 of the 8 taking first time. The other has had it left in with him for a while to see if he'll eat on his own. He was having a good strike at it but just didn't take it so we will wait and see.
I managed to get a pic of the water dragons and will put it on the in blog gallery tomorrow.

Well all 8 of Fanta's eggs have hatched and there appears to be 3 cremiscales and the reast are amelanistic but most appear to have some kind of motley going on. They actually started to hatch on the 12th and finished on the 13th so good going really, i'm just waiting for them to have their first shed and then it will be photoshot time and putting them on the website.All in all i'm relatively happy with the clutch although Fanta has since taken a turn for the worst.
She is in isolation at the moment which will hopefully help her as it appears the female that she was housed with decided to become a male without the bits and was chasing her around the tank, this i believe has contributed to her starting to reguritate her food and loose a lot of weight.
Shes now having lukewarm baths for 20 mins a day every day along with being given small food items, She was fed yesterday so it's fingers crossed she'll keep it down.
Next lukewarm bath will be later today.
Any more news about Fanta will be posted here as soon as anything happens.

Well people, here we go again.
The Leopard Gecko breeding season has kicked off to a flying start for me with 2 of my 4 breedble females laying 2 eggs each. Spotty was first laying 2 on the 1st and dotty was second laying on the 3rd. All 4 eggs are in the incubator and are due to hatch on the 6th and 8th April respectively.
Pictures of the 4 eggs can be found on the blog gallery on the site and hopefully it won't be long before reporting on the hatching of the 8 Con snake eggs due.

It is with much regret that i must report that Sassy our oldest Corn Snake has passed away on Thursday Morning. This isn't the first time i have lost a snake but it the sadest loss.
We have owned Sassy for around 7-8 years getting her when she was around the 4-5yr old mark and she was our 2nd snake.
In the years we have owned her we have had over 70 hatchlings all of whom have all been healthy and lovely characters just like their mum, she has been present on many a reptile talk at the local playgroups and school holiday play schemes as well as being the first snake my 2 boys handled at the age of 1yr old. Because of her very good natured temperment she was the one snake i had who would get even the very nervous of snakes people to touch and eventually handle.
She was a very muched loved part of the family and will be sorely missed by all who knew her.
The only comfort is knowing that she has gone on to a better place and that her legacy lives on in her offspring.

R.I.P SASSY
approx 1995 - 24/01/2008

Firstly i would like to apoligise for both the blogs i'm putting on today are overdue.

On Sunday 20th we were lucky enough to purchase our latest reptile. It's a Bosc Monitor approximately 8-10ins inc tail and about 1-1.5 yrs old at a guess.

We have named it Boscy from purely not knowing what sex it is so we went with an obvious name that would apply to both sexes.

Boscy is a bit tempermental in the viv but once out calms down a treat so with plenty of handling we should get it calmed down a treat. I will be adding it's pictures to the gallery later today.

Well I don't know 2 surprise clutches in the space of a month this time however it was one of my female corn snakes. Here we are at the very start of the breeding cycles getting ready for mating to take place in the spring and low and behold my zigzag cemiscale female lays 8 eggs on the 17th.
All the eggs are in incubation and appear to be doing well and there were no slugs in the clutch either. So hopefully they should be hatching around the 15th Febuary and should hopefully be motley or even zigzag in a form of amel.I will keep you posted.
As for the water dragon eggs, these have unfortunately failed but never mind hopefully next year they may have a successful mate and we may have some fertile eggs.