Its too bad the other eggs didnt make it to term. It would have been cool to see the variation in this clutch. Nevertheless this little hatchling will be staying here and its not hard to see why.
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I was kind of leary leaving this clutch of hatchlings while travelling to Windsor for a week but they all did fine. They have all had their first shed and ready for their first meal. Im not too sure whats going on with this clutch but they look awesome in person. The mother was really red as a hatchling so I thought she may be heterozygous for albino so I purchased a albino male which was her mate. I dont have a connection to either previous owner and this is my first boa clutch. At the time I began the project I didnt realize there was different locales with boas and I dont plan to go into boas too far other than to produce simple albinos or sunglows so these hatchlings will be rehomed as cool pets that are het for albino.......................... Regius Picasso ~ Creating living breathing art
This breeding season was off to a good start but so far its been indifferent and not sure how it will turn out. There were alot of surprises and alot of things that went wrong too. Ive also been less attentive then usual as Ive been really busy with alot of other things. This little egg is from a clutch of 12 from a amel corn snake that was gravid when I purchased her and some others. They ended up having mites and I didnt take the neccessary quarantine measures before added them to my collection so ended up fighting a infestation. Its alot easier fighting mites with one or two animals. Its a different story when its the entire collection. Nevertheless I was able to get it under control and near extermination as I have had experience with it in the past. So when I got a clutch of eggs from one of the females I thought awesome but unfortunately alot of the eggs had weak structure and only one survived the incubation period. This is that one and its looks to be amel tesserra at minimum which is awesome. It also kind of evens things out with the cost of the chemical treatment sprays and work that had to be done. Its going to be awesome to see what it actually is once its out of the eggs.........................
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Well we ended up with 14 beautiful babies! The mother didnt turn out to be heterogeneous for albino like I suspected so these babies are all heterogeneous for albino possibly anerystic. They are all healthy and doing well no still borns or deformities. This marks the first live birth as well as boa clutch for Regius Picasso. I didnt realize what was going on and upon doing my normal daily cleaning I thought why is there so much water in the possibly pregnant females hut when I didnt even leave a water dish in there overnight thinking she could possibly go into labor. In the end it was her water that broke and once I opened it what a surpise!
Cleaning day for the crested geckos @Regius Picasso
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Well things are definitely off to a good start. The first crested gecko to hatch this year. The pairing was a lilly white x extreme harlequin pinstripe! It will be interested to see how the colors develop on this one. Regius Picasso ~ Creating living breathing art đ¨đĻ
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Bearded Dragons waking up from a long three month bromation period and ready to eat đ
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Well Regius Picasso is off to what may be a good 2024 season. Everyone has been going through a winter cool down period the last couple months and have been exhibiting a lot of breeding activity.
This veiled chameleon female is building nicely after three consecutive pairings. You can actually see the egg bulges above her hind legs. It will be exciting to see what the future holds.
Once a female starts refusing the male its a good sign she may go on to be gravid. Just to be sure Ill continue feeding heavy and introducing her to the male a few more times.
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Freshly shed and exhibiting her true coloration đĨ
Veiled Chameleon Breeding Ritual Colors
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It was a ten egg clutch and looks like two of the eggs may have went bad during the incubation process. Two have absorbed their yolk with no issues and have exited the eggs and a third has just pipped. So far so good. Hopefully I get one or two female aztec amels to hold back..........
In all the 12 years of breeding crested geckos Ive never caught them in the middle of mating. So cool................ đ
