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  1. SirenSanJose

    How do you shoot your herps? (lens, settings, mode, etc?)

    Do any of you have a favorite "magic" setting for shooting reptiles -- or even a particular kind of reptile -- with? One setting you use for geckos, another for snakes? Do you have some special combo of lens, settings, etc, that gives you really good results the majority of the time? Do...
  2. SirenSanJose

    They're growing! (Updated photos of some youngsters)

    Although they aren't going to do anything but sit around and look pretty for at least another year, I'm still excited about all of these little guys. They're getting bigger and prettier every day. Siren (black pastel female) -- she is the only one of these kiddos I bred, the others I've...
  3. SirenSanJose

    What is everyone's *personal* feeding/cooling/breeding cycle?

    I know everyone has their own preferences, and there's all kinds of info available online as to the "right" answer for brumating ball pythons for the best breeding results. I've seen everything from "I don't cool, I just put cold water in the bowls" to "cool for 4 months". I'd love to hear...
  4. SirenSanJose

    Yellowbelly cuteness

    This little dude was being adorable and shy when I went to clean his tub today. <3
  5. SirenSanJose

    my colcannon recipe

    This is one of my favorite late fall dishes to make. Warming, hearty, and DELICIOUS. 8-10 white potatoes 1 head cabbage 1 large leek 1 stick butter (1 cup) 1 pint cream or half and half salt and pepper, to taste Directions: Peel and chop potatoes, chop cabbage. Put in a large pot, add a...
  6. SirenSanJose

    Background thread: where is everybody coming from in their photography?

    Photography and I have had an off-again-on-again thing for nearly all of my life. I bought my first film camera, a point and shoot cheap piece of junk, at a garage sale when I was 7 or 8, and shot on that thing for years, buying film with my allowance. About 10 years ago, I bought my first...
  7. SirenSanJose

    Trades :)

    Picked these kiddos up in a swap for some cresties tonight: male fire (top left), male pastel (in shed, bottom right), 3 female 50% het albinos). The fire's sire, in particular, is a GORGEOUS light animal, I can't wait for this little guy to grow up.
  8. SirenSanJose

    sanity check: am I looking at an browned-out Axanthic of some kind?

    Sorry, folks. I know these "OMG I bought this animal at Petco and it's TOTALLY NOT A NORMAL tell me how rare and valuable it is" threads drive everyone crazy, and I'm sorry to be creating one. But this guys is really puzzling me. So, I picked up several normal balls locally on Craigslist last...
  9. SirenSanJose

    Happy Samhain!

    To those of you who celebrate it, have a blessed Samhain and a happy new year!
  10. SirenSanJose

    Inquiry Richard Porter, Reptile Realms / Reptile Buyers Collective - anyone heard of him?

    Hey, folks -- lately, a Richard Porter, going under the business names of "Reptile Realms" and "Reptile Buyers Collective" has popped up near me in San Jose, CA. I can't find any info on the guy, no history or reputation. Has anyone heard of him?
  11. SirenSanJose

    suggestion: photography "general interest" subforum

    I'd love to see a photography forum here, really. I see so many stunning photos that other keepers/breeders post, and as an "experienced novice" photographer, I'd really love to have a place to chat with other folks about some of the ins and outs of photographing reptiles. Live animal...
  12. SirenSanJose

    Just some normals, dinkers, and hets :)

    Was doing some photo shoots. These are my normal, dinker, and het girls. They may be "plain" compared to some morphs, but I love them all. I'm hoping some of the dinkers prove genetic, especially the banded ghana girl, but until they're grown and proven, I'm not about to assume they're...
  13. SirenSanJose

    sanity check on sexing, please!

    I need a sanity check. This does, indeed, look like a female, correct? 1200g pastel animal, I bought it as a male from a breeder, weighed about 1050g at the time, and just never checked the gender (I didn't know how to pop nor probe at the time, and relied on the breeder to do it for me.) Last...
  14. SirenSanJose

    Black Pastel post-shed update

    Here's my gorgeous black pastel holdback after her first shed :) Because I'm so pleased with her, and she's the first ball I ever produced, she's taking on "my" name (or rather my business name) -- meet Siren. Here she is in all her glory: Side view: Pretty gold back: Belly shot...
  15. SirenSanJose

    All's out that's comin' out

    Well, my first clutch ever (and only one this season) is all out now. Unfortunately, I lost 1 normal that never made it out of the egg. Its head was really deformed, and it had at least 3 pretty bad spin kinks; I don't think it would have ever pipped on its own. BUT, I got 3 nice healthy...
  16. SirenSanJose

    Day 54, eggs are barely wrinkled... cut, or leave?

    So it's day 54 with my first-ever clutch. I can clearly see things in there moving around when I candle the eggs. One of the eggs looks like it's started to deflate and dimple slightly, the other three are still fairly firm-looking. Most of the egg-cutting videos I've seen, the eggs look very...
  17. SirenSanJose

    Showing off some of my collection (morphs)

    My newest addition, a little female mojave I picked up at the San Jose show this weekend: (sitting still? she is NOT a fan!) Peaches, my albino male: (Don't you dare judge the Dr Pepper PJ's) Nilla, my pastel male: Pirate, my super-low-white pied boy: (can you figure out why he's named...
  18. SirenSanJose

    And the results -- I mean hatchlings -- are in!

    Both my first clutches EVER -- sunglow mot het anery male, x sunglow mot het anery, and x amel het anery -- produced a total of 25 babies in their first clutches -- 14, and 11 respectively. Got a nice mix of amels, sunglows, and snows. First one peeeeeeeks out... And all 25 (man it's hard...
  19. SirenSanJose

    First clutch!

    Totem, my first BP, laid her first clutch today! She was bred by both a pastel, and a black pastel, so I have NO idea what is gonna come out of these pearly whites. I can't wait! I knew she was due soon, and what a lovely sight greeted me when I opened her tub: Mama did NOT want me messing...
  20. SirenSanJose

    can corns double clutch without being re-bred?

    So I was feeding today, and both my female corns refused -- something they have neither ever done except between post lay shed and laying. So I pulled them each out and took a close look, and I'll be darned if they don't both look and feel heavily gravid again. Only problem is, I never rebred...
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