Small batch reptile snobs
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A student took some of the savannah form zebras home for the summer and brought this one back knocked up. I've actually never been able to get this form to produce, but in the student's words, the male was "trying to get it" all summer. Looks like he got it.
I suck at videos, but had to document this. This is my 2023 holdback pair of Varanus primordius (George Clooney the Monitor Lizard and Jennifer Varaniston). He is helping her excavate a burrow/likely future nest. Shared parenting responsibilities in lizards. Wild stuff.
Not a project - just for fun. Big Horn Mountain, CA rosy boa from DC Rosy Boas.
My youngest really took an interest in the roughies this summer and has been handling and feeding them. And while he holds his own with a seven-foot, fast-moving python, we started researching something he could learn with without me having to be present. Had one myself as a child and had forgotten that these are one of the best snakes there is.
This little female has lots of red on her and loses pattern with each shed. May have accidentally triggered a cycle (not my intention to breed these in their first year) so furiously working on another enclosure that allows 14-18 inches of sandy loam throughout.
There's my holdback pair
Pile of zebras from unrelated parents. Mom heavily pregnant again. Haven't posted anywhere, but will soon. Two spoken for, but the rest have personally told me that they love the idea of going as a wholesale lot.
Sorry for graphic image. Cat attack victim Ophiosaurus sp. killed while laying eggs. I managed to manipulate a couple of them out and am incubating them.
Ophiosaurus ventralis
I'll have a bunch of these ready to ✈️ in a few weeks. USA, EU, Canada.
Can't tell if she's lumpy or not and I seem to be prone to illusions lately...
One of the two species I keep where I actually care if they produce in a given season (the other being the primordius). Everything else can just chill and enjoy the room and board - cool if they chip in, but I like their company enough to let them freeload.
These though, they're just about the last of their kind in captivity, and the only breeding adults I know of. Need some nice big batches from my two unrelated pairs this year until the holdback girls are ready for the spare males I acquired.
The body language here is promising.
Xenagama wilmsi
Egernia hosmeri. These actually belong to the MOA Reptile Club and were purchased with club funds. But they arrived today in Melbourne, and I guess I'll just have to take one for the team and keep them here until Monday. The sacrifices I make.
Huge thanks to Savannah Noland at Perfect Hue, LLC
I don't understand why she chooses to bask like this.
This is one extra thirsty male this afternoon
Gotta be getting close
Primo cam capturing a no-doubter gravid female coming out of the nestbox. Trying not to disturb her at all as they're ridiculously picky nesters.
The coming-soon upgrade for these will allow for 18 inches of whole-enclosure nesting. But for now this is the spot.
Also some "baby" primordius out this morning. Five months old and huge - finish one shed and start the next. Finally got these ones eating more variety. They were cracking out on crickets for the longest time.
Tons of courtship behavior this morning from one of the new pairs of Xenagama wilmsi. This project has turned a bit obsessive and is not without its failures. Hopefully the others kick off soon.
Female is literally waving her cloaca in his face and dude is clueless...or is put off by the ape with his face pressed against the door.
One of the new males got a glimpse of the new female and, as you can see, is particularly motivated.
This is cool to me. Since incorporating the tunnels, the wilmsi are engaging in actual "shield tail agama" behavior: sleeping in a burrow and blocking of the entrance with their tail
It's missing something on the left side - feels too open there. Help me figure this out.
Big gray thing on right side is nest box, which is something I'll always include as an option with egg-laying species, even with deep substrate throughout.
Xenagama wilmsi build almost done. I am going to regret this tunnel system. I know it already.
Also picked up an unrelated primo from the other person I know of who got babies last year.
Some of the new wilmsi arrived today - this went from fun little experiment to trying to preserve the species in captivity within just a couple years. Not even.
This is Nugget, one of the babies from my first hatch of X. wilmsi back in 2022.
No one who sees one of these in person doesn't want one. They're pretty spectacular - and next Wednesday we'll have almost all of them in the US. Getting to work on three bloodlines. 🤞
Nugget lives in the Marine and Oceanographic Academy's dedicated reptile room, where he's in the care of some of the smartest kids in Florida. I hope to give the students their own breeding group of these some time next year.
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A student took some of the savannah form zebras home for the summer and brought this one back knocked up. I've actually never been able to get this form to produce, but in the student's words, the male was "trying to get it" all summer. Looks like he got it.
I suck at videos, but had to document this. This is my 2023 holdback pair of Varanus primordius (George Clooney the Monitor Lizard and Jennifer Varaniston). He is helping her excavate a burrow/likely future nest. Shared parenting responsibilities in lizards. Wild stuff.
Ophiosaurus ventralis
Female
Moved up to big crickets and started taking some other food items. Gonna need to build a couple bigger stacks. #varanusprimordius
Feeding
#varanusprimordius
A little shower and a drink. Xenagama batillifera female.
Monsters
340 grams, heavy breathing started today - still probably six weeks out. One of my original girls.
Apologies for water spots on door. Yummy frog legs. With the exception of the Xenagama and the Trachylepis aureopunctata, everything we keep will take these over anything else. The pink tongues especially, who are not food-motivated, love these.
Quite the prima donna - next few days will be waxworms and frog legs for this girl after a nice fat clutch. Another underrated species - all the personality of an ackie in 1/3 the package. Love these guys.
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