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11/29/2023

I won’t get to breed the western black heads this upcoming season, but I thought I’d share a picture of her anyways. I really love the color on these western black heads, but boy are they hard to handle, as soon as they touch my hands, they immediately start wrapping my hands, but I do really enjoy working with this species so that’s okay.

11/28/2023

Some of the cheynei that I plan on giving another shot. The Morelia group have always been a favorite and fascination of mine. I made some killer babies the previous year with one of the girls, so I have some high hopes for them this time around.

11/28/2023

I feel motivated to post African species still, here’s one I hope I have better luck with this time around. Had a female slug out on me this past season. I’ve really enjoyed working with dwarf pythons over the years. Despite them being more closely related to natalensis. Their personality seems mixed between ball pythons and rock pythons. The confidence of the rock pythons, typically without their aggression, and the laid-back personality of ball pythons, typically without being shy like ball pythons can be. I think that’s what makes them one of the best pet pythons out there.

11/26/2023

The African clade of pythons often get over shadowed by other python groups, and often got dubbed dirt, unruly, dead end (project) snakes, and many other things that set this group of pythons back, prior to the 90s. Then something interesting happened, and a medium to small python out of West Africa started gaining recognition to Herpetoculture from a few mutations imported, and bred thereafter. It change the course of Herpetoculture ever since, rather good or bad, is up to the individual, but I believe there’s been plenty of good things that have come from ball pythons, but regardless of mutations, and going back to the African python clade. We have a long history with these pythons, and shouldn’t forget the natural beauty and history of these pythons and the role they played, and still do play in Herpetoculture.

11/25/2023

Probably my favorite species in the Genus Liasis, is fuscus. I’ll be trying this girl again, she laid a clutch for me in 2022. This is a species that some people think get huge, but both of the adult females I work with are in the 4 to 5 foot range. These guys also have such a dramatic difference from their dorsal being dark blackish brown to their ventral scales being bright yellowish gold (that do tend to develop melanin as they age). With an incredibly iridescence, but these are true python lover’s kind of python, because you need to look beyond their aesthetics to truly appreciate the Liasis Genus.

11/24/2023

Another species I might try this season, and one of my favorites. Ring pythons are very neat pythons and despite what some people might think these are small pythons, but they are feisty out of the 6 I work with only one isn’t too bad, but I still enjoy working with them.

11/24/2023

I’ve been busy with the building and animals that I haven’t had time to post much, but I’m excited about this upcoming season and new stuff I’ll be trying for. I think I’ll be trying these beauties this season. I’ve always liked dark looking snakes and there’s not much darker then the matte black on a nice curtus.

11/16/2023

2023 Leopard Gecko Babies

11/01/2023

I don’t have too many snakes that give me that Halloween theme, but here’s a few. The rings and Savu’s would have been better, before they went through their ontogenetic color change, and one’s going into shed I think the kids it the ghosts look?

10/05/2023

Really wanted to add, to my woma python group, and has some phenomenal woma pythons, and had some killer ones he was letting go of. I love these guys such an humorous species. I have always enjoyed them, and as I was taking pictures of them. They started to pose like an inland taipan. 😂

09/29/2023

Here’s one of my 100% hypo Bredli, and she’s deep in shed as well. I don’t show off by Bredli very often. They truly are a magnificent python. From there brick red color to their black tail. They really make a great python to work with. Decent size but not too big. They have a very good feeding response. Beautiful colors, and crazy tolerance for cold.

09/27/2023

One of my female Palmerston jungles. They make some of the best stripes. I have a few of her offspring that have killer stripes, that I’m hoping to plug into some cool things this upcoming season.

09/25/2023

My favorite of the Morelia. These guys are so awesome to work with. If you’re into Axanthic looking snakes, these guys definitely look the part, but way more to them then, just black and gray, and are also super hardy. They are also very well mannered. I always recommend them, to people looking to work with Morelia for the first time.

09/19/2023

Here are some of my full or high percentage ivory jungles. I hope to have a few of these ready to go this upcoming season as well. I have some cool things I’d like to put into these. If the male is motivated. The work Nick has put into Ivory’s over the decades is quite impressive. I hope to contribute some cool variations at some point.

09/18/2023

One of my favorite jungle carpets I have, she has some fantastic blacks on her. I bred her last season, and will give her another try this upcoming season. Still have some of her babies still, and one in particular still has a good amount of black. I would love to breed as much black into jungles as possible.

09/17/2023

Was doing some cleaning, before I headed out to work on the building, and thought I’d grab some pictures of some snakes, and this guy was posing just right. I have a new found respect for lesser sundas pythons after finding them in the wild. They are a very beautiful python(more to them than just a brown snake 😉). I’m glad to see more people are having success breeding them. It would be a shame to lose such a beautiful python to herpetoculture.

09/14/2023

I don’t get very many pictures of these guys, mainly because they’re so reclusive, so I don’t see them out very often. Annulated boas are probably my favorite of the boids. They are easy going, rarely bite (compared to many of the other Corallus). They primarily come in two color phases black and orange, but change dramatically between light and dark. Have a really cool dragon like head. Oh did I mention they rarely bite? Haha if there was one downside it is, they do tend to hide often, but besides that, I think they make one of the best arboreal snakes, they are just harder to come by.

09/11/2023

The Indian python, is a true relic to Herpetoculture, and is even the “ type species” for the Genus Python. Once considered to be two sub species Python molurus molurus and Python molurus pimbura. Now just considered one, Python molurus. I do see differences between the two, but hard to say, India and Sri Lanka have been connected throughout the years, ever since the Miocene Epoch (Sri Lanka separated from peninsular India) and was connected, as recently as 500 years ago with the Adam's Bridge. Hard to say really if there was much gene flow when they were connected without some DNA testing, but regardless they are an awesome species. The last picture is of the mainland Indian python (the southern type) and the Sri Lankan python for a comparison, these are probably my favorite of the big snakes.

09/08/2023

I was fortunate enough to produce another clutch of northern white lips this season. These are some big healthy looking babies, but if you look closely that big pile of babies, the baby to the far left is missing an eye, but other than that they all look great! These are a python with a ton of charisma, but not for the faint of heart.

09/06/2023

This is one of my favorite visual puzzles I have. I love her pattern. I threw a few males in with her, so hopefully I will get some interesting things out of it.

08/27/2023

First wild reticulated python in Bali! The joy of finding this guy was incredible. It’s awesome to be able to work with them in captivity, but finding them in the wild is a whole different experience. If you truly enjoy working with a certain species I highly recommend visiting them in the wild. If it’s at all possible, it’s a fantastic experience. Thank you .diaries for an incredible journey, and much more to go!

08/27/2023

Here are a few of the baby Rockhampton carpet pythons I made this year, it was my only successful carpet clutch this season. These guys have very unique colors. It will be interesting to see how they develop. I feel as if the northern coastals get very unappreciated in the hobby, because they get overshadowed by both of the southern coastals, or jungle carpet. Which is a shame, because these guys have very unique colors themselves, and my Rockhampton‘s are relatively small.

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