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It was a great week at Geckos Etc.! Lots of pictures.

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We had a slow start to our breeding season due to our move, but things are really starting to get exciting now!

Our first Mack super snow hatched 3 days ago, here he is shortly after hatching:

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One of our female ball pythons laid her first clutch yesterday, our first python eggs ever! Seven perfect eggs. Hopefully we will have some pastels in a couple months. Another female is due to lay in a couple weeks.

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The next two surprises came today, a snow patternless from snow het patt albino x snow het patt albino parents, and our first APTOR het RAPTOR.

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The two ends of the leopard gecko color spectrum, side by side. Very cool!

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All of these this week, and it is only Tuesday! I love the spring, opening my incbators to new presents everyday is BETTER than Christmas! :)
 
Hi Steve, congrats on those beauties! I hope to buy more leos from you in Sept. at the upscale reptile show
 
Congratulations Steve on a great start, those babies are stunning!

That BP is just beautiful and look at the size of those eggs....OUCH!
 
Congrats Steve! Your season is off to a great start. I look forward to seeing what comes next! Thanks for posting.
 
Hi Steve! :wavey:

It must be a very happy week; congrats to a good start! Great animals!
 
Those are some nice babies Steve!
Congratulations.

Greetings from Germany, Johannes
 
Wow Steve, that really is a great start! Keep the pictures coming!
 
Very cool! congrats Steve. I'm still trying to prove out that 66% het bell blizzard. The blizzards that are hatching from him are amazingly white too! Thanks again he is fantastic.
-Ian S.-
 
What a great week - congrats!! :D

Glad to see that the move didn't affect you too badly! That must have been a huge job to get all your critters and plants moved - makes me tired just thinking about it!
 
Thanks everyone for your comments. I hope to post some more pictures as more cool stuff starts hatching.

Very cool! congrats Steve. I'm still trying to prove out that 66% het bell blizzard. The blizzards that are hatching from him are amazingly white too! Thanks again he is fantastic.
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Ian,
Glad to hear the bliz poss het bell is doing well for you! His grandfather was very white, and the bell females he was bred to weren't too bright (grandma to your male), so its not surprising he is fathering white blizzards.

I love how purple the Mack Patty is (heehee)! You should name him/her Grimace! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimace
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Shanti,
I was thinking the same thing! Too bad they don't stay purple. I just checked on him today, and he has had his first shed and is starting to develop spots. His purple has already started fading.

Glad to see that the move didn't affect you too badly! That must have been a huge job to get all your critters and plants moved - makes me tired just thinking about it!
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Nancy,
The move was hell! I don't think I want to move 500 miles ever again. :) The animals and plants handled it pretty well. I didn't have any casualties as a result of the move, but I did lose some of the eggs that had been laid prior to the move. It took us a solid month of non stop moving (we did it all ourselves), and 5 Penske truck loads.

The new house is great. We have lots more room, and we are in a more rural area than Orange County. Our house backs up to open space, and we have been finding lots of wildlife in our yard. We have been finding lots of sharp tailed snakes, alligator lizards (and these are the prettiest I have ever seen, lots of red), fence lizards, and two weeks after we moved in Pacific treefrogs took up residence in my carnivorous plant trays. I'm sure they will be breeding in there soon enough. I have an albino Pacific treefrog that I found as a tadpole last spring, so hopefully I will be able to find it a mate in the backyard when I try breeding it this winter.
 
oh man!

500 mile move? ouch steve! i can't even begin to imagine how hard it was! and you have many hundreds, possibly even thousands of animals! and i was complaining about moving my 100 animals from sac/davis back to the sf bay 2x in the last few years haha! too bad i didn't stay in davis/sac or i might be your neighbor steve =P it was funny because in a 5 minute radius i had 2 other reptile breeders who also had 100+ animals- who would have known?

ps- got any pics of the albino pacific treefrog?
jon
 
Wow, your new place sounds great!! :cool: I love those little sharp tailed snakes! We see those around here quite a bit. I've just recently started seeing some juvenile alligator lizards around here. For years I saw only blue-bellies. I hope to see some adults this year!! I second the request for albino tree frog pics!!
 
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