[For Sale] 2020 morph/het sliders (double hets for creamsicle) from project colony #2 (last one)

Note: We have two morph slider project colonies. These are from colony #2 in MO. Each colony has its own curator/manager.

2020 morph/het sliders from colony 2:

100% double hets for creamsicle (het charcoal and het caramel) - 775 shipped to 875 shipped, depending on quantity

These have a low chance of being residually het for albinism, so that tendency to NOT involve albinism is desirable for a creamsicle-maker project.

To purchase 2020 morph sliders from colony #2, please email Shaun Roberson at s.roberson at charter dot net to get the conversation started. He will return messages as soon as he can get to them. Everybody is short on time as the most precious resource.

All of our double hets for creamsicle (creamsicle is the simultaneous charcoal caramel combo morph) were sired by a male charcoal 67% double het for snow bred to a female caramel. Our primary focus for this colony is the production of charcoals, but we have some side projects such as the creamsicle in development. We do not have charcoal hatchlings available at this time due to a sneaky female, although we might have some groundlings before winter hits.

These will be feeding on pellets, bloodworms, crumbled fish, aquatic vegetation, and possibly other foods, depending on the individual animals. They will not be shipped until they are fully stable and independently thriving (which takes very little time). They are unsexed, but the majority will be female-leaning. Yes, we are producing some stricter temp-sexed males. No, known temp-sexed males are not open to requests for such since we have holdbacks of our own to take into account. Any excess TSMs will be blended in with the rest of the creamsicle hets that are for sale and they all look virtually the same. Asking for a male, a pair, or that kind of thing will not be productive at this stage of the project.


Any buyer is expected to have done his/her research prior to making contact, as it shows intellectual investment in the well-being of the animal(s).

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TOS:

Shipping and LAG:

I ship via Reptile Express (which utilizes Fed-Ex). If there is adverse weather involved, we will wait for a safer shipping window as warranted. Contact me at nickolasanastasiou at yahoo dot com if you are interested in purchasing. I offer a live arrival guarantee if you are present to receive. If there is a DOA situation, I expect multiple hi-res photos adequately displaying the condition within an hour of receipt (and I may require the corpse/corpses to be sent back to me; you will be compensated for this if it happens). If there is a discrepancy in description, I expect to be made aware of it within the day it is received (in which case, I will issue you a full refund upon safe return of the animal/animals to me). Animals under 4" scl are not sold as pets. Contiguous 48 only (I actually can ship to HI or AK, but there may be additional costs involved that the buyer would have to cover).

Shipping is about $50 most of the time. Sometimes I save two bucks and sometimes I lose ten over the included number, so $50 is what I settle at for smaller animals. I suppose I could meet up with someone closer and chop the shipping off, but it would have to be a convenient location for me and I am ONLY chopping the shipping off for a meet-up. The distance you traverse has zero bearing on this cost reduction. Larger animals cost a heap more to ship, so that incorporated cost is steeper.

Contact:

Email me at nickolasanastasiou at yahoo dot com if you are interested in purchasing. I am usually busy between work, perhaps school, care for my menagerie, more work, family stuff, and yet more work, so email works best for me. Deal discussions are to be conducted through email. Since I use Fauna private messages for site-related communications, I am unlikely to respond to PMs about animals in my ads. It also implies the person either did not read or did not care about what was written.

Payment:

All non-local sale prices have shipping cost, packaging, and any miscellaneous fees/costs built in for buyer convenience except where otherwise indicated (usually for much larger individuals). What you see is what you get. Payment plans are no longer accepted. If only a portion of the total due is sent to me and I have not explicitly agreed to that, I reserve the right to refund you and refuse sale. If an offer is made and I accept it with a time frame involved for payment, a lapse of said time frame without any delivery of payment typically means the agreement has been invalidated (for example, if you say you are going to pay me [amount] on [date] and I agree to that, the deal is basically void if [date] passes and payment has not been sent) unless we both agree to the renegotiation of the payment window and there are no communication deficits.

Sexing:

Unsexed animals, probable sexes, and temp-sexed animals have no associated guarantees as to a specific sex. A probable male/female appears to be so at the time, but has not necessarily reached full maturity, so there is room for error. A TSF or TSM label is subject to the performance of accurate TSD and that is a shift of probability in favor of a particular sex (it often works out, but occasionally does not; such is the chance we all take). A guaranteed sex is, as stated, guaranteed. If an animal of guaranteed sex ends up revealing itself to be not of the purchased and explicitly declared sex (with sufficient evidence sent to me) down the road, it can be returned to me in a healthy state for a full refund (the general practice) or, if you are attached emotionally, we may be able to do a partial refund based on current market prices while you retain the animal.

Trades:

I prefer sales to trades in almost all cases. Not seeking trades at this time.

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Things we are not: a charity, a rescue, or a home for wayward tortoises that failed to make it big by venturing out West only to end up starring in tortoise mating documentaries.

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Some photos that include the male charcoal (he is intolerant of being photographed) and the female caramel that are the parents of these creamsicle hets, as well as some other female animals (female charcoals and a female albino 100% het for caramel) in the colony.

Some additional photos.

One of the double hets is showing interesting markings, so we will hold it back. Some of its clutchmates are still available for the time being.

No upcharge for incidental duckweed.

The next wave of 100% double het for creamsicle (charcoal and caramel combined) sliders is pipping/hatching now. The previously posted clutch has been spoken for aside from maybe one or two. This clutch, which hatches in two parts, is half spoken for. Then there is one more clutch, after which we will have no more creamsicle-project-oriented availability until summer of 2021.

Between the currently hatching clutch and the clutch due to hatch in another few weeks, there are or will be only 14 to 15 of these left available for the season after the most recent orders have been fulfilled.

Two left available of those which have hatched. Both are capable of transitioning to new homes.

Up to eleven more eggs due to hatch in the following week or two. After they have hatched, become established, and moved to new homes, we will be out until August of 2021.

All of the remaining 2020 non-holdback creamsicle hets have been placed or spoken for aside from one.

There will be no more of these available from us until mid-to-late summer of 2021 after this final one has been taken.