KHP Reptiles

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

29/11/2024

Yeeehaaaa, the first holdback has identified itself.

26/11/2024

Zebra time, nice bag of mixed zebra combos.

25/11/2024

All the cool kids hanging out together.

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.

13/11/2024

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

10/11/2024

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.

01/11/2024

Check out some awesome specials from Barry Ratbags Smith at KHP Rodents

Contact Barry directly to place orders.

Wollongong run coming up shortly or pickup options available in Western Sydney

REMINDER FOR ORDER CUT OFF DATE FOR WOLLONGONG RUN ON SUNDAY 10TH NOVEMBER

Last date for orders for Wollongong rodent run is Wednesday 5th November.

Some great specials available this time for anyone looking for larger rodents.

JUMBOS (250 Gram +) in 2 packs normally $30.00 per pack now $10.00.
XLJUMBO (350 Gram +) in 2 packs normally $36.00 per pack now also $10.00 per pack

27/10/2024

Every shed is like Christmas with this ghost granite girl. Totally blown away.

23/10/2024

This girl will make some het stonewash hatchies I can't wait to grow up. Looks like a decent size clutch coming.

22/10/2024

Thats some weird Blair Witch egg stacking...

15/10/2024

Another one. Lay box yea na.

13/10/2024

I tried for a couple of seasons to breed this bredli x darwin albino to a cracking albino granite but he never got the job done. This year I tried a good looking male bredli x darwin albino and he has done the job nicely.

12/10/2024

This clutch should bring some epic stripes if polygenics is fair. I remember when this bredli x darwin het albino girl hatched (live egg cut) and she looked insane inside the egg. Once out of the egg she did not dissapoint with a near perfect pinstripe down her dorsal. Fast forward a few years and she now brings a nice little clutch of 13 perfect eggs herself. Paired to a very nice striped bredli x darwin albino boy so I'm hoping to see stripes stripes and more stripes in brown and yellow.

11/10/2024

Feel free to push that lay box aside and just lay those eggs anywhere you like.

Show me some of your best egg drop moments!