Hello all! Back in the winter time we figured that the conditions would not be good for breeding any of our corns this spring. However after careful consideration we have in fact gone ahead to breed two pairs this spring.
Apollo the striped tessera het pied bloodred, hypo, and anery was paired with our classic bloodred girl Rougale after she just reached 300 grams. This pairing was a cautious one that we spent long thinking about. In the end our decision was made due to the fact that the small female laid a clutch of infertile eggs last summer and struggled with them. Infertile eggs tend to egg bind females more often than healthy fertile eggs. So we would rather her have a clutch of fertile eggs rather than infertile to decrease the chances of her having trouble passing them.
Ares our normal/classic/carolina old boy was paired with Jewel our abbott's okeetee with a possible het for amel. In the last six months Ares body condition has slowly diminished. He now has to be fed every week a large adult mouse to keep his weight up, but he still looks to be losing muscle mass. His body creaks when he's held and we are pretty sure his sight is starting to go. Perhaps because of the few years he spent obese his aging was accelerated. While he still has the strength to do so we are trying to breed him to Jewel to see if we can get some hatchies out to continue his bloodline. It may work and it may not. Ares has been willing so far and so has Jewel, but with Jewels sketchy past record with breeding and laying we may not get any eggs form this pair. I'll be a bit depressed if we are unsuccessful and then Ares goes downhill further.
Our crested geckos have been busy, and we currently have a pair of freshly hatched babies from them as well as two other pairs of eggs incubating. Once we see what hatches out of the next four eggs we may put some up for sale. So keep an eye on our projects page!
Apollo the striped tessera het pied bloodred, hypo, and anery was paired with our classic bloodred girl Rougale after she just reached 300 grams. This pairing was a cautious one that we spent long thinking about. In the end our decision was made due to the fact that the small female laid a clutch of infertile eggs last summer and struggled with them. Infertile eggs tend to egg bind females more often than healthy fertile eggs. So we would rather her have a clutch of fertile eggs rather than infertile to decrease the chances of her having trouble passing them.
Ares our normal/classic/carolina old boy was paired with Jewel our abbott's okeetee with a possible het for amel. In the last six months Ares body condition has slowly diminished. He now has to be fed every week a large adult mouse to keep his weight up, but he still looks to be losing muscle mass. His body creaks when he's held and we are pretty sure his sight is starting to go. Perhaps because of the few years he spent obese his aging was accelerated. While he still has the strength to do so we are trying to breed him to Jewel to see if we can get some hatchies out to continue his bloodline. It may work and it may not. Ares has been willing so far and so has Jewel, but with Jewels sketchy past record with breeding and laying we may not get any eggs form this pair. I'll be a bit depressed if we are unsuccessful and then Ares goes downhill further.
Our crested geckos have been busy, and we currently have a pair of freshly hatched babies from them as well as two other pairs of eggs incubating. Once we see what hatches out of the next four eggs we may put some up for sale. So keep an eye on our projects page!