Update Hatchling Picture

Here's an update picture of the hatchling from 9.25.07. It's a little washed out in the picture. It's coloring has brightened up a lot. The brown has lightened, and the yellow has gotten brighter.

Fake Rock

Making Fake Rock is rather easy as long as you have the time and patients. It's a messy crafy, but seeing it in you reptile's enclosure makes it worth.

You can make the designs as elaborate or simple as you choose. You can make perches, ledges, hides, humid hides, rocks, backgrounds, and more!

I've made full backgrounds, regulare hides, humid hides, rocks, perches, and bridges for my leopard geckos, African fat tail geckos, and bearded dragons. I've made full backgrounds and partial backgrounds, as well.

It's all up to your creativity and imagination. But, don't worry if you think you're not the most creative or imaginative. It's a simple project. And you know the husbandry for you reptile, so have fun with it.

Hatchling

So here are the first pictures of the first hatchling for the season.







The hatchling is temp sexed for female at 82F for 60 days. The mother is a Tremper Jungle Albino het APTOR, and the father is a Tremper Blazing Blizzard, making the hatchling het albino and blizzard. It will become available once it reaches 15 grams.

Snow Leopard Gecko Project

I have found two rather nice mack snow leopard geckos from AC Reptiles. I have decided that although I did not have a project in my plans for this particular morph, I still had to have them. Anthony, at AC Reptiles has gorgeous leopard geckos, crested geckos, and carpet pythons, and these individuals are spectacular in my eyes. With just two females, there's not much one can do with a project, but there will be a reptile expo in Atlanta, Georgia, sponsored by the Georgia Herpetological Society. By the time the show is here, November 17-18, I will have made plans with these girls.

I'm deciding upon rainwater snows, bell snows, supers of them, or who knows. I'm somewhat leaning towards a rainwater male or a snow het rainwater male. If this is the case, I will also purchase a rainwater female to add to the group. If I end up with a snow het rainwater, the posibilities are great. Super snow, Rainwater snows, possibly rainwater super snows. We'll see what happens...

With Anthony I have finally found a gorgeous male crested gecko. I haven't made a 100% decision about the matter, but I am leaning towards topping my current reptile spendings with these three individuals from AC Reptiles.

Bearded Dragon Diet

I have two bearded dragons. After researching and begging for one for probably two years, I finally got a baby bearded dragon for my birthday one year. She was so small. I knew right away she need crickets and veggies. Many people don't know that...

Bearded Dragons join leopard geckos on the top kept reptile. Although the two vary in size and diet, they are both docile reptiles, which make great pets, especially beginner pets. But, sometimes their diet, isn't followed through correctly. I've heard people say that they've NEVER fed their bearded dragon veggies. WHAT? Not good. Well, reading Bearded Dragon Diet you can see the different produce items that you can feed bearded dragons as well as how much to feed them.

Ball Pythons

Ball pythons are by far my favorite snake. They're very docile and reach a decent length- not too big or too small. But the one thing I absolutely HATE about ball pythons is their known reputation for being finicky eaters. Feeding Habits of Ball Pythons will give you some guidelines when it comes to feeding ball pythons. Some tidbits and experiences of my own and stories of experiences of others. Hopefully, by reading the article you will figure out why your snake isn't eating and what you can do for him.

Feeding Frozen is another good article about the frozen feeder rodents versus live feeder rodents. Now, I will go ahead and say that I feed live. Not by choice, but because my ball python won't eat frozen. Now, his last feeding, he grabbed and fully took a thawed mouse before I gave him a live small rat. That, to me, means he's ready to comply. I'm choosing to wait 3-4 weeks before feeding him again, so that he's good and hungry. Then I'll be attempting a thawed small rat.

Leopard Gecko Caresheet

I thought because I introduced a new leopared gecko into my collection today, I would post a leoard gecko caresheet. (This is almost identical to the caresheet on my website.)

Leopard geckos are one of my favorite gecko species. They come in SO many morphs (colors), ranging from tangerine, yellow, albino, jungle, red eyes, black eyes, etc. There are so many possibilities out there for the Eublepharis macularius species. On top of that, leopard geckos are one of the most owned reptile species due to their ease in captivity as well as their very docile temperaments. But, just because many people own leopard geckos, it doesn't necessarily mean they know how to properly take care of them.

Here is a basic caresheet for Caring For Leopard Geckos.

Female RAPTOR Leopard Gecko

UPS so lovingly delivered me a gorgeous little female RAPTOR this morning. She flew from Maryland all the way to Georgia in less than 24 hours. Don't you wish you could do that? Well, anyway, Matt from Lizards of Oz sent me this gorgeous little thing with one solid red eye and one 50% snake eye. I debated between this one or another with two solid red eyes, but somethign about this little girl screamed, "Buy Me!" So, I did.

She should brighten up as she grows. I have some nice plans for her. I may get a few more RAPTORs in the future as I have so many ideas that just one lil female can't do it all. Which, makes me sad that I didn't get the other female that I was debating about, but I'll get over it.

goReptiles Welcome Intro

I have recently gotten into the world of online blogging, and felt the need to have an updated blog about my hobby business- goReptiles. At goReptiles, we breed and trade high quality morphs of leopard geckos, African fat tail geckos, and crested geckos. In the future, we have plans to add ball pythons, kingsnakes, and gargoyle geckos to our list of breeders in our collection.

Currently, our collection extends from RAPTORS, Tremper Blazing Blizzards, Tangerines, and Tremper Sunglows. We, also, have a small breeding group of Amel and stripe AFTs, as well as harlequin and pinstripe crested geckos.

Our projects include:
Tremper Blazing Blizzard
Tangerine Tremper Jungle
APTOR
Blizzard
Tangerine
Amel AFT
Stripe AFT
Banded AFT
Harlequin Cresteds
Pinstripe Cresteds

Our future projects include:
Bell Jungle
Tangerine Bell
Bell Hybino
Stripe Amel AFT
Red Cresteds
Red Pinstripe Cresteds

Because this is my intro to me and goReptiles, I thought it'd be nice to throw in the intro to reptiles. Reptiles have had an interesting start in life. I mean who would have thought that reptiles evolved from fish? I wouldn't have... Well, it's all in theory. This article give a short description about the evolution of reptiles. A Brief Evolution of Reptiles