KHP Reptiles

KHP Reptiles Brent and Cheree Smith. We are Sydney based python breeders with a focus on the morelia morph world.

Sydney based python breeder with a focus on the morelia family and its ever growing morphs.

Crazy looking ghost snow albino paradox thing, not sure exactly what it is. Has lots of white patches but a few albino s...
09/02/2025

Crazy looking ghost snow albino paradox thing, not sure exactly what it is. Has lots of white patches but a few albino scales too. She is confused herself im sure.

This Saturday it's showtime! Plenty of awesome deals to be done. We will have a great variety of snakes available. See y...
06/02/2025

This Saturday it's showtime!

Plenty of awesome deals to be done. We will have a great variety of snakes available.

See you there 👍

All my dreams in one snake 😍 The holdback of all holdbacks. Don't bother messaging, she is never leaving me.
05/02/2025

All my dreams in one snake 😍 The holdback of all holdbacks.

Don't bother messaging, she is never leaving me.

Flower season is always nice. Im sure the lacys love it haha.
26/01/2025

Flower season is always nice. Im sure the lacys love it haha.

2025 Expos are about to kick off. First of the year is Lake Macquarie and KHP will be there with plenty of pythons for s...
17/01/2025

2025 Expos are about to kick off. First of the year is Lake Macquarie and KHP will be there with plenty of pythons for sale. Looking forward to catching up with a lot of friends and meeting some new people from the coast. See you there!

Spoiling a photo with a grumpy face.
11/01/2025

Spoiling a photo with a grumpy face.

Albino freaky zebra looking great today. The colour and pattern starting to pop.
10/01/2025

Albino freaky zebra looking great today. The colour and pattern starting to pop.

Extreme colour comparison in these two recent clutches. 50% Bredli x Darwin albino clutchSuper sunglow jag clutch
27/12/2024

Extreme colour comparison in these two recent clutches.

50% Bredli x Darwin albino clutch

Super sunglow jag clutch

Just taking a bath in the waterfall. What a life.
14/12/2024

Just taking a bath in the waterfall. What a life.

09/12/2024

Pinstripe bredli x darwin clutch has some absolutely stunning stripes as I had hoped.

08/12/2024

Holdback Axanthic BHP #2

08/12/2024

Holdback Axanthic BHP #1

Yeeehaaaa, the first holdback has identified itself.
29/11/2024

Yeeehaaaa, the first holdback has identified itself.

Zebra time, nice bag of mixed zebra combos.
26/11/2024

Zebra time, nice bag of mixed zebra combos.

All the cool kids hanging out together.
25/11/2024

All the cool kids hanging out together.

Parthenogenesis round 2. Bit of a story but an interesting set of outcomes. In the 2022 season I paired an albino granit...
20/11/2024

Parthenogenesis round 2. Bit of a story but an interesting set of outcomes.

In the 2022 season I paired an albino granite female with a silver pepper male hoping to make some tripe hets. It was both of their first times breeding. Plenty of locks and everything was looking great right up until the eggs were laid. The clutch was messy with lots of slugs but had a few decent looking fertile eggs. 2 eggs went the distance but I was in shock when I saw an albino head poking out of the first egg. I cut both the eggs to get a better look and had no idea I'm staring at two albino granites. First thoughts were ive made a mistake somewhere in pairings but after some phone calls the most reasonable answer was parthenogenesis. After the two albino granites left the egg i quickly popped them to confirm they were both females. Both those hatchies have been strong and problem free despite warnings I got that partho babies often don't do well.

Fast forward to 2023 season and i tried the same pairing again but just got a pile of slugs.

This season I thought I would try something different and used a caramel super zebra het albino male with the original albino granite girl. Lots of locks again but 14 slugs and just 1 good looking egg made me think she was planning on doing it all herself again. Sure enough a female albino granite hatched this week.

It will be interesting to see what happens when I attempt to breed the first two parthenogenesis offspring next season. Being basically a complete homozygous copy of their mother I'm guessing they may well only want to reproduce by parthenogenesis also?

Interested to hear if anybody has ever grown up and bred parthenogenesis hatchies before. Crazy science project and just shows how nature can totally surprise at times.

The egg fairy delivers again. Hurry up with some heads poking out. The incubator is overloaded.
13/11/2024

The egg fairy delivers again. Hurry up with some heads poking out. The incubator is overloaded.

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Albino freaky zebra looking good

Pinstripe bredli x darwin clutch has some absolutely stunning stripes as I had hoped.

Holdback Axanthic BHP #2

Holdback Axanthic BHP #1

Spent a few hours today setting up monsoon water system in the lace monitor setups. Working exactly as planned. Great for cooling off the lacys and to water the plants.

The first walk on fresh tea tree mulch is always one with great caution. A stand tall walk keeping the body off this new ground that just magically appears every spring.The tongue going flat out checking out all the new scents. Always cool to watch them checking out changes to their setups.

Bath time after winter snoozing.

Egg time. Block the hole and go!

Simple lay box solution.

If only they fed this calmly all summer. First feed after winter and everyone was on their best behaviour. This big boy is a menace in summer and I sure don't argue with him.

Chunky girl season

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