Boutique python breeder in the heart of Texas.
Introducing a new female to my existing pair of pied pectinata. I’m watching them *closely* for signs of aggression, but so far so good. It’s been crazy interesting to see the new girl, who was alpha in her clutch, come in and immediately try to assert dominance over the other two, who are mostly indifferent to her presence so far. Observing social interactions between my animals has got to be my favorite part of working with lizards!
Brand new baby tree monitors are just too much fun!
Nice morning to do some digging! Found four prasinus eggs, in the lay box this time (in the past she has preferred laying in the substrate under the box). One less egg than last time, but last time the extra egg went bad during incubation. Next up is my reisingeri, who should lay her first clutch sometime in the next week!
It just doesn’t get better than this! First one out from my SECOND beccarii clutch. 🖤🖤🖤
I can’t believe how big this girl has gotten. I’m telling y’all—everyone is sleeping on similis!
One last table to bring home and I’m officially moved out of my facility. This was an awesome space for ball pythons, but ended up being a terrible space for monitors. It has taken a tremendous amount of work to get to this point and I am just so excited to finally be able to close out this phase of my reptile keeping adventure. Onwards and upwards on a much smaller scale!
Some day I will finally be done setting up new cages once and for all. But that day is not today.
This trio of kings monitors definitely seems to approve of their new stack of cork flats! It’s been a frustrating project so far, but I’m trying out some new cage features to see if I can shake things up.
Having completed his rookie season of baby making with an unprecedented level of enthusiasm, this young man deserves a much-earned rest! 💛💛
I busted out the ultrasound to check in on follicular development on a couple of grow up tree monitor girls that haven’t cycled yet, and compared them to two proven girls that I know are at certain points in their cycles, so that I could get a baseline. I used my ultrasound a lot when breeding snakes and I for some reason I never really thought to try it on the monitors until now. I’m a huge proponent of reading your animal’s behavior and that’s all I really need most of the time, but I can see how this has the potential to be a really useful tool for a few specific situations with my monitor group.
First lock for the reisingeri! Yellow tree monitors here we gooooooo!!!
Ackies are beasts!
Peacock monitor clutch update! Several eggs went bad in the first couple of days, but three of them made it through and are starting to show veins! Meanwhile, mama has made a fast recovery and is chowing down on everything thrown her way. Working on a few cage modifications to hopefully create a more enticing spot for her to lay future clutches, so she doesn’t resort to the old under the water bowl trick next time.
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-20 bags Mazuri 6f rodent food-SOLD
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Super excited to have been given the Rattle On Award for best lizard Dallas. Thanks and ! Video link in comments. 🤘
Holy crap, y’all! I randomly found Varanus auffenbergi eggs under the water bowl while I was cleaning cages today. These guys are crazy shy and I never even witnessed a copulation and rarely see more than my girl’s face, so I had no idea she might be gravid! I’m just in shock. One of the eggs looks sketchy, but it looks like there just might be 6 good eggs in there. 🤞🤞
My baby black tree monitors are growing like weeds! Can’t wait to introduce them to you all this weekend Dallas! I’ll be hanging out with the great folks all weekend—come say hi! In addition to these home-grown USCBB Varanus beccarii, I will have examples on display of the all FIVE of the species of tree monitors shown in this gorgeous poster from !
I love how my ackies utilize all the nooks and crannies of their .rocks backgrounds!
What? You’ve never seen a CBB baby black tree monitor in person? Guess you’d better come to Dallas next weekend! 😉
The latest in my Sisyphean adventures with King’s monitors. I will again toss the “good” egg in the incubator, where it will inevitably go bad within a week, and I will curse the day I got into this project, while still somehow holding out the tiniest bit of hope that maybe someday a miracle will happen. If you want your heart broken, you can’t go wrong with older “proven” adult King’s monitors.
I went on the best kind of Easter Egg hunt today! Seven beautiful Red Ackie eggs from a first timer! Well done mama!
My best girl gave me another clutch of four beautiful black tree monitor eggs today. This time she laid again only 87 days after giving me the last clutch. Not a bad first clutch of 2024!
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They definitely aren’t best buddies yet, but I’m enjoying watching as my Yellow Tree Monitor female is starting to adapt to the male’s presence in her cage. He, on the other hand, is cozy as can be!
Who wore it best: baby tree monitor edition.
So exciting to see that my grow-up Rare Earth Red Ackies finally decided it was time to take their relationship to the next level!
Not going to lie—it’s been a pretty great past month!
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Green Tree Monitors here we gooooooo!
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Life is good.
Red Ackie pippage!! So exciting to see that little face!
There’s just something special about a fired up Calotes calotes!
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Just paired Hognoses. Some couples are a bit more enthusiastic than others.
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