Well what a surprise we had last night. We were just getting ready to go to bed for the night when we noticed that our female Water Dragon had made a big pile of dirt in the middle of her laying box.
Now the short version of the story up to here is that we had been waiting for them to breed all summer and with what looked like no success then at the beginning of the week the female started digging around in her laying box and looked slightly larger around the middle than normal but we weren't sure if she was gravid due to the fact breeding season was over, then low and behold last night we got to the above mentioned point.
When we took her out to have a look at her she definately appeared thinner, so we lifted out the laying box so as to look underneath it and sure enough there were signs of eggs. So we went digging in the dirt and found 5 really tiny eggs (but saying that mum isn't exactly big anyway).
They are now in incubation and if they are fertile eggs should be hatching around the middle of January next year so watch this space for more news on that.

Hi again,
Well with all the old posts now hosted on this blog things for the new site are going well with only a couple of pages to develop before getting things moving on the publishing side of things.
In my last post i spoke about 2 of the hatchlings i was going to hold back. We have now decided which two and give them names and taken pictures. Their names are Citron and Peugot and they are a Hypo Tangerine and a normal Hypo. Their pictures have been taken but put on the new gallery ready for when it goes live.
Couglar and Shava have settled in well with Shava eating an Extra lagre mouse a week, but as of yet Couglar hasn't eaten but has managed to gain a little weight.
So fingers crossed that her appetite will return soon and then hopefully next year if shes the right weight we will have some eggs.

Hello and welcome to my new blog. I have set this up ready for when the new site goes active which will hopefully be in the near future. But as a first post lets talk about some new additions and some sad losses.
After having 5 Leopard Gecko Hatchlings in the reptile room for 3 months now we have decided that we are going to keep 2 back for our breeding project and at the moment they are looking like a boy and a girl so fingers crossed. As of yet they don't have names or any photos on line but i'm sure it won't be long. These 2 Geckos will also help replenish my Gecko colonies after sadly losing a male and a female all of a sudden. The 2 that passed away were Banana my Blizzard Phase and Herman my Hi Yellow.
As for the other new additions we have now got 2 new Royal Pythons they have been called couglar and shaver. They are male of 3yrs and a female of 18months but a good weight at just over 700grammes. We swapped 2 of our Amel Corns (Male and female) to get these. So Blotchy and Spot have now gone. Well thats it for now however i will post my older posts here as well from my old Blog so that you can see everything.

Well i have had another 3 geckos hatch since i last posted. I had one of spottys hatch a couple of days ago and then i had 2 from candy hatch this morning. One looks like it might be a tangerine but i will let their colours develop a bit more.
It also looks probable that sassy might be gravid with a 2nd clutch so we will have to wait and see on that.
Then last but not least we found toffe crisp our male caramel corn on the 22nd, he was hiding inside a car cleaning kit in my under stair cupboard, but he had helped himself to 2 small mice i had left in the cupboard overnight as well and then promptly took another 2 yesterday.

Well the website has been updated with a picture of Sid now being in the photo gallery and the 13 hatchlings are also on the site.
It's been a busy couple of weeks since i last posted. On the 4th August Candy laid 2 eggs and these will be due to hatch around the 8th October, i had a Gecko hatch on the 8th and was really happy about that as it was the 1st sucessful hatch from Dotty's eggs. It appears to be growing well so should be ready to go in about 5 weeks time. Site will be updated with the gecko pic shortly.
Then on the 18th we were due to go the Exeter Reptile Expo only to find on friday morning it had been cancelled, so instead we went trawling around 3 reptile shops in the somerset and dorset area looking for some new female corns to go with our caramel ad lavender males.
Well we ended up coming back with 3 new females all told , 2 lavenders one striped and one hypo, and a normal hypo. When we got home we realised that the both the males had managed to escaped again but this time i don't think we are going to find them so now i am trying to replace them. The site will be updated with pics of the new snakes shortly.

Well we hopefully have our breeding pair of royal pythons for next year now. We purchased a male on wednesday the 1st and have called him hissing sid (i call him hissy for short), he's been named this as thats all he seems to do is hiss. We may look at getting another female but that is still in the considering stages at the moment. We have also had 13 more corns hatch hopefully this will be the last of the season but theres still a small possibility that sassy may lay another clutch. They are all amel and are all a really good size.
I will try to get some pics of hissy on the site soon along with the hatchlings, but can't make any promises at the moment as i just don't feel so good right now.

I know your probably getting fed up with being told everytime something lays but i find it very helpful to have it noted down somewhere. So here we go.
Yesterday Banana my female Blizzard Leopard gecko laid 2 more eggs i think that will be it for the season for her but we will have to wait and see. These eggs bring us up to a total of 15 gecko eggs in incubation, it would have been 18 if we had not lost some whilst we were away. Candy my female Abernt Tangerine is looking gravid again as well so theres a chance we may get some more from her.
And as a last note for today 2 of the amels from the 20 corn snake eggs hae turned out to be candy cane. So thats 5 different morphs from one female.

Well we have been on a lovely holiday from the 10th to the 18th and had some one coming in to keep an eye on things with the reptiles whilst we were away, and it's just as well we did. We came home on wednesday to discover that the 20 snake eggs that were due to hatch had all hatched and we have 10 amel, 6 normal, 2 snow and 2 anerys. We also had 12 eggs laid from the mum of this batch but unfortunatly they were all slugs we also had 2 slugs from candy one of our female leopard geckos. But just the snakes hatching was great as this is the first time we have had a 100% hatch with this female. They are all just having their first shed now.
Well unfortunatly we aren't going to be able to make it to the pras breeders meeting this month due to work commitments but we are diffiatley going to the exeter reptile expo in august, hopefully we will come away with some good specimens for breeding next year.
I still haven't got round to posting a couple of pics on the site but i will try to get them on there today possibly tomorrow.
On the egg side of things Spotty my normal female leopard gecko laid 2 eggs yesterday. They are now in incubation and are due to hatch on the 23rd september.

Well what a busy couple of days i've had. We had 2 gecko eggs laid on the 28th 2 on the 29th and 2 on the 30th. So that takes us up to 16 gecko eggs in incubation with some colour morphs expected.
We still haven't found Double our lavender corn at the mo but we still have a little look now and then.
We also have a new member to the family. His name is Scotch and he is an adult male butter corn. Although he is a butter he does have some orange in him so i suspect that the amelanistic gene is coming through a little but never the less he is a butter. So hopefully we will have some nice babies from his gene pool next year

Well after completing our latest viv unit we happily continued and moved around some of collection and as such place our Lavender, Caramel, and Cremiscale corn all in the unit on Thursday (21/06) afternoon, locked up the viv and thought no more about it. Saturday came along and it was feeding day, so i went to the unit unlocked it and preceded to start looking for the Caramel and Lavender to seperate them for feeding. Coundn't find them. They had escaped sometime during the night on Friday we think.
After this shock discovery we searched the house top and bottom but couldn't find them, but for some reason i had a hench to look in the cupboard under our stairs and sure enough i found the Caramel, but still no Lavender.
To this day i still haven't found him a i am now starting to give up hope that i will find him, but as they say every cloud has a silver lining and this is no exception. The same day that we found he went missing we found an adult Butter corn for sale. We go to collect him on Saturday afternoon. This is the first of hopefully 2 butters that we will be getting as i have wanted a butter for as long as i can remember.
So fingers crossed we may well have some butter offspring in the next year or two.

Well with the last lot of corn hatchlings gone and the last baby gecko to hatch reserved, i'm now playing the waiting game. We still have 1 female corn to lay and a possible 2nd clutch from another and the geckos are still going strong with some hopefully going to lay soon.
We have been busy this week though, we have just completed our 3rd viv stack with total measurements of 4ft wide, 6ft high and 2ft deep. It has 4 units in it one measuring 4ft x 2ft x 2ft, the 2nd one measuring 4ft x 2.5ft x 2ft and the last 2 measuring 2ft x 1.5ft x 2ft each. Photos of this unit will be on the photo gallery soon.
We do have another new member of the family as well, my youngest son so has 2 Fire-bellied toads has now also got a yellow-bellied toad. He does love his frogs.

Well what a busy couple of days, first of all yesterday my blizzard phase gecko banana laid 2 nice eggs and then only moments later one of my normal phase gecko's Dotty laid 2 eggs so we had 4 arrive at once yesterday. Then this morning i find that Candy my abberrant tangerine was preparing to lay so i thought maybe tonight or tomorrow morning, in fact an hour and a half later she's laying. There was one already laid but then i actually saw the 2nd egg come out. So thats 2 from her. The wasy things are looking i'm going to have a busy July and August with hatchlings.

Well first up i'd like to apoligise for the delay on updated my blog, i have been quite busy this week and just hadn't got round to it.
Well lets begin with our newest arrival she is a Royal Python approx 2-2.5 yrs old and currently weighing in at 564grammes. She has a lovely temperment and hopefully she will do well on feeding so that we can get her up to weight for next season. So fingers crossed we may have some baby royals next year. She was brought home on Thursday and seems to of settled well and she has been named Honey.
Next up we have the hatchlings, These hatchlings were due to hatch on the 8th but one decided to hatch early on the 7th and form there things just took off, with the last one coming out of his egg this morning. There are 14 in total 4 Anerytheristics and 10 Normals with the het for Amelanistic and some have the het for Snow. Pictures of these will be on the Available page shortly.
Well thats it now for hatchlings until July, but not for egg laying. Banana & Dotty are due any time now and Candy should be shortly after them, as her first clutch didn't do very well so hopefully the next one will be better. Spotty isn't due now until July.
Snake wise Sunny still hasn't laid but is now coming in for a shed so hopefully won't be much longer for her and Sassy (mum of the clutch that has just hatched) looks very much like she could be gravid again, but we'll see, she could lay in July or August as we have seen her being mated a few times.

Hi all,
Well there i was waiting for 14 Corn Snake eggs to hatch this week and instead i get a baby gecko hatch. It has been incubated for female so hopefully will come out that way, and it is a lovely little thing so pics will be on the site soon. Not sure if it's going to be a Normal phase or not yet so i'll wait a couple of weeks before deciding. Both mum and dad are Normal but from their last hatching there was a Normal and a hypo. This little baby wasn't due until the 13th so it's a little bit early but is doing great.

Well yes we have had 2 new additions to the family and another one on it's way next week.
The 2 new additions are Greenback the Fire- bellied toad and Toffee Crisp the caramel Corn snake.
Greenback belongs to my youngest son and now lives with Fire Heart his other Fire-bellied toad.
Toffee Crisp is and early 06 and is one of the best looking caramels I've seen, lovely gold caramelly colour. He's a boy so yes it makes us boy heavy but we aren't intending to use Toffee or Double for maybe a year or two.
Pictures of these two new additions will be placed in the photo gallery soon.
Our other new addition is Honey we collect her on Thursday and she is a lovely Female Royal Python. She will be ready to breed next year as long as we have got a male the right weight for her. So fingers crossed we will have the start of our royal breeding project.

As i said earlier in my other post Spot was laying her eggs, well she has finally finished and there are 13 in total taking my Corn snake egg total to 47 so far with one more female to lay and other one looking gravid. So all good.

My female Blizzard phase Leopard Gecko laid a single egg on saturday 26th May. It's looking good and mum is doing fine. This was her first egg of the season so there should be more on the way.Dad is Herman he's a hi yellow het tang het albino poss het lavender so what the baby will be we aren't sure.
As i type this post my abberrant tangerine female is also preparing to lay she has dug a nice big hole and is constantly sat in it so hopefully by the end of the day i should have an egg or two from her.
Other news is that Spot, one of my female amelanistic corns is currently laying her eggs so i will have some more in incubation before the day is out.
There will be some pics of tria and scampi added to the photo gallery today as well and the new eggs so don't forget to check the site for those.

Well hello again. I have now got 2 new female leo's ready for next year's breeding project. They could both mate now at 18 months but i think we will wait till next year. One of these girls isn't in the condition for breeding yet. This i think is because she has been bullied. The person i got them from explained that she had a deformed foot through the other female biting it when they were younger at feeding time however she is also very underweight. I believe that because of that deformatey the other female was bulling her and getting the lions share of the food. Well not anymore they have been seperated so that i can concentrate on fattening up the underweight one without the other one bothering her. So fingers crossed she will do well.
My eldest son has named them scampi and tria.
The other news is that my Blizzard phase leo and both my normal phase leo's and the newest one the abberrant tangerine are gravid and are currently developing their eggs so watch this space as we could have some nice babies on the way.

Yes, another new addition has joined the family. This time it's a Lavender Corn Snake. Has been probed as a male and is currently settling in well.
Unfortunately he is not ready to breed and won't be until possibly next year or the year after, so fingers crossed we will then be able to get some nice coloured hatchlings out. His photo will soon be added to the photo gallery.

We have a new addition to the family. A new female cremiscale corn snake. She has a brilliant pattern of a zigzag part way down her back and is absolutely lovely tempered. She is a young adult probably an 05 and has been grown on really well, she matches some of my 3yrs for length but not girth yet. She is currently in a tank on her on and appears to of settled in well. I am hoping to mate her next season depending on her size and weight.