Somebody Help Me Sex my Adult Dragon!!!

[Tere Salazar]

You know what? Butt ugly is NOT in the cards for either of your girls with Clyde. Sorry to burst your bubble. And for that matter, butt ugly or not, when you see them come out of the egg, puffing up at you and opening their tiny little mouths to scare you off, well, we'll just say it becomes darn near impossible to let them go. On second thought...add quadrupling the roach colony to your to-do list!

Ahhh! I see, the world's first lizard porn star. I can see it now... He was probably loving the audience, too! Thanks for making what would have been a very boring weekend fun!

And yes, it sounds like he took care of business. I would certainly be expecting some fertile eggs in the very near future. I don't think we ever let our boys and girls breed more than once...and that was all it ever took. But you might want to give Clyde the rest of the day to get his obvious sexual frustrations out. His personality sounds absolutely darling.

 

[Matt2979]

Yeah, I'm not even expecting ugly, much less any degree of butt, from this little guy's offspring. The picture that you painted of the little ones trying to scare me away...that's just too funny, and too cute!!!

And I AM glad that it's this easy because I was going to work on an antique chest yesterday, but never did. Was gonna get on it first thing this morning. Didn't happen! I've been sitting in my recliner all weekend, computer in my lap, watching these two hilarious creatures.

For the past hour (or so) I've been watching them lie around being extremely lazy. He's bobbed at her a few more times (ok, several). The most reaction she showed was a very slow arm wave. I'm guessing that he made her feel like a woman (no more head bob from her)!! lmao! I'm going to separate them so they can get some much needed rest, and then I'm going to order some more roaches to get a 3rd colony going. If this goes as smoothly as you're making it sound, I should have babies somewhere around around early/mid June.

 

[Tere Salazar]

Yes, you sure should! And I'd make that 3rd, 4th, and 5th colony. Babies eat like there's no tomorrow...and they LOVE roaches. After they get past that trying to scare you off thing, my next favorite was watching them chase roaches. They're so clumsy at first. They're just all around precious, not a whole lot cuter (except these ball python babies we're waiting on to hatch over here.)

Oh, he definitely put her in her place. We had a couple of girls just like her...and there was only one boy they'd let anywhere near them, almost like they were waiting for the right one or something.

I would have to agree with you on these babies. I can't WAIT to see how they turn out. They're going to be stunning!

 

[Matt2979]

You've already got BP eggs?? I feel like I'm SO far behind, but I don't know why. Out of 17 clutches last year, I guess my first didn't hatch until the end of April. I should have 2-3 decent clutches before March is over. Maybe 1 sooner than that. I had a small litter of boas on Jan 30 and they were really cute. All but 1 was really sweet, and that one is the cutest, trying to eat my fingers and can't even get her mouth around 1!!! lol

I remember that these guys ate LOTS of little crickets when they were little guys....but 5 or 6 colonies??? Holy crap! I guess "colony" is a very vague term. How many are you thinking per colony? I've got 1 new colony now that has at least 30 females, but maybe 40, and at least 20 males, but could be closer to 30. I also put several large nymphs in there that will be molting into adults very soon, as well as several various sized ones that I figured would do no harm by being in there. My other colony (that I feed out of) has at least 25 females (I'm sure less than 40) and about 1000 various sized nymphs, and is just a hair over a month old.

I knew going into this that I crickets just wouldn't be affordable. I haven't tried to raise crickets. They stunk enough, just keeping my feeders (I ordered either 2000 or 3000 each time). Can't believe that ROACHES are cleaner and have almost no smell. When I mentioned roaches to my wife, she said....well, she said no! After hearing from a few people that they didn't stink like crickets, she gave me her full blessing and we've both been so much happier ever since!!

 

[Tere Salazar]

Yep, we've got one clutch of Axanthic to Het Axanthic, and one clutch of Orange Ghost to PH Orange Ghost. It's our first year breeding balls, so it's been a very interesting learning process. Keeping in mind I'm used to beardies, so this snake thing, all on a schedule, has me all screwed up. I can tell you we're both thrilled and can't wait for these babies to hatch. The first ones are due around the end of March. Yay!

Gah! 17 clutches? You must have a HUGE snake room. LOL! Congratulations! I say that because we're pushing it at 70 babies, but we still have a ton of holding back to do. My snake room is also my office, and the entire room is all of 10 x 10, if that.

You know, my hubby said the same thing about roaches, but he was happy when our feeder bill went way down...along with the smell. I was joking about the roach colony. I know babies can eat 50-100 appropriate sized crickets a day, so whatever you would need to cover that per baby.

 

[Matt2979]

Came across a few pics that I took of Bonnie and Clyde, not long at all after I first got them. The first two of Clyde were taken almost exactly 7 months ago. And the 3rd pic showing that this cute little boy, is now a MAN!!

 

[Tere Salazar]

Awww! Look how cute he was!!! He's grown into such a... STUD!!!