Seven Brooks Lizard Company

19/01/2025

Trying something new in primordius stock tanks and also with the roughies, as I'm finding the combo of dry surface/humid under layer/and reptiles that don't drink standing water a difficult problem. Misting makes the substrate too wet, so I've rigged these bubbling bowls. Discourse I want to have:

1. Does the drawback of the noise/vibration from the pumps outweigh the motion of the water?
2. Does this pose potential health hazard with the small monitors - like are they more likely to aspirate water like this?
3. Will the roughies s**t in their new bowls immediately upon discovering them?
4. Any other potential drawbacks here?

15/01/2025

I have one young male Xenagama wilmsi ready for a ✈️ when the weather permits. Comes with dibs on a female when I'm done hoarding holdbacks. Should be producing unrelateds this spring.

05/01/2025

First clutch from the Varanus primordius holdbacks. Female CB 9/24 by Alec Feldman, Male CB 10/24 by me. Gonna get some food in that girl now.

08/10/2024

These hurricane babies are the only animals I'm really concerned about. Everything else I took off feed last week in case of power loss.

These have very fast metabolisms and need to eat every day - already pounding drosophila.

Thinking that being near NASA, AFTAC, Patrick SF Base and (perhaps most importantly) an Amazon distribution center may help us out in terms of restoring electricity, but have heat packs just in case.

06/10/2024

Last 3 are out or might as well be. 100% hatch rate. Xenagama wilmsi. Another clutch looks close right in time for the hurricane.

05/10/2024

#2 almost out and the rest are sweating

04/10/2024

04/10/2024

Almost all the way out. It'll stay in the incubator til tomorrow by which time the others should be showing some action. Another female looks about ready to burst.

I will hopefully be able to offer a VERY limited number of pairs of these when shipping opens in early spring 🤞

04/10/2024

pipping

27/08/2024

Little almost-yearling female primordius starting to mess around with digging nests. This may ultimately lead to nothing, but at least the substrate seems right. Is currently housed as part of a 1.2 (someone needs to try it).

25/08/2024

Easy enough to see that this young male is interested. Introducing pair after sizing up the female a bit. See if you can spot her peering out cautiously from under the ledge.

24/08/2024

Size comparison on males - both just entered shed

24/08/2024

First three pics are my founder wilmsi female, CB 2020 by Bion. Next three pics are a WC female I picked up this year.

The founder female is huge compared to the WC female, and the same goes for the respective males (I can't even catch the WC male right now to do a comparison because he can get places my hands won't fit).

Furthermore, when I tried the new female with holdback males, they acted like she was a threat and showed no mating interest. There were also obvious morphological differences when side by side. So here's my question:

Is it possible I have batillifera sensu lato (wilmsi) and sensu stricto (batillifera)? They don't even look that similar other than pattern, and the size discrepancy is huge.

21/08/2024

Finally some wilmsi this year - 6 perfect, 2 likely good, 1 I'm gonna become temporarily religious for.

Impossibly precious eggs from one of the rarest agamids in the hobby.

09/08/2024

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.

01/08/2024

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.

26/06/2024

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.