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Sun Sense Herpetology A breeder of high end and pet crested geckos, with other species to come, located in Ottawa, Ontario.

Look what I have!! 🤩 Since discovering the magic Steve Erly is doing with sables, getting one of his animals has been a ...
14/12/2024

Look what I have!! 🤩 Since discovering the magic Steve Erly is doing with sables, getting one of his animals has been a little dream of mine. Well, not only did I get one, but he gifted me a possible sable half-sibling as well! 👀🤗

📝 The sable is the one with the beautiful thick cream on the dorsal, and possible sable is the vibrant tricolour. The white is noticeably creeping up the laterals of the sable with each shed. I've included photos from Steve's page to show what 2 months of growth looks like for these little cuties. My props absolutely enhance how much the orange is picked up by the camera in the possible sable, but best believe she's a vibrant gal in any setting! 🧡 Thanks a million, Steve! These 2 are just the picture of health and vigor, and I couldn't be happier ✨️


Kiki joining me with some Christmas spirit 🎄To no surprise, she was ready to get lost in that tree the minute I looked t...
12/12/2024

Kiki joining me with some Christmas spirit 🎄

To no surprise, she was ready to get lost in that tree the minute I looked the other way 😄 I chose Kiki as a wee juvie because she's got one oil spot following her tiger patterning, and a bold tiger + dal spots sounds like a fun possible goal! She ended up becoming quite the spotty girl as she's grown up.

The tigered oil spot is displayed nicely in the last photo 🐅⚫️

Efi was pretty insistent on rubbing her nose on the metal screen, so I added a layer of plastic screen inside, and it wa...
19/11/2024

Efi was pretty insistent on rubbing her nose on the metal screen, so I added a layer of plastic screen inside, and it was successful at stopping her nose rub, and allowing her cute little snout to heal 🩹. After a few weeks, she discovered it also makes a great perch 😃

She's just the cutest 🥹

I've never been more hyper-vigilent over a pair of hatchlings before! Money x Inagod had a VERY successful first clutch...
10/11/2024

I've never been more hyper-vigilent over a pair of hatchlings before! Money x Inagod had a VERY successful first clutch, and I'm on the clock constantly making sure they're eating and doing well. The babies were born right around Halloween 👻, and being axanthics, it all felt fated ✨️

The lilly white axanthic is very confident and active, and the non-lilly axanthic is more shy, but gives me leader vibes when I watch the 2 interact together ❤️

My FB followers get the first glimpse of these extra special babies! If you're in the market for an axanthic from really fun lineage (Money is a hypo axanthic! And Ina, a lilly white 100% het, has a very dark base 🖤), keep an eye on my page, because I don't have space for many holdbacks from them, so most will be made available when they reach Healthy, Thriving Bean ™️ weight.

Picture of Money looking absolutely modelesque with her eggs visible through her skin at the end 🔥

Okay I admit, this was my favourite photoshoot to date! Corn snakes are not my primary focus, but I'm giving them extra...
05/11/2024

Okay I admit, this was my favourite photoshoot to date! Corn snakes are not my primary focus, but I'm giving them extra love this week 🤍📸

Aomori is a beautiful and patient model, and she made this series an absolute pleasure to photograph. Corn snakes are definitely more challenging than my New Caledonian geckos to photograph, but the results are that much more rewarding! ✨️

Aomori is a snow het palmetto, with a very slight green halo around her saddles (it's getting less prominent with age). This means she's got no red or black pigment- just white, yellow, slight fading green, and her pink (pigment-less scales), and having 1 copy of the palmetto gene can sometimes add a beige-ish tint. Compared to my other snow corn snakes, I think the beige really shows on her! I'm curious how white her base will be when she's at her full adult weight! Or will she be beige-pink with green and yellow? Super excited to find out! 👏

She's a gentle and sweet snake that is trained to understand feeding time vs any other interaction, so her genetics are secondary to how wonderful she is 🩷🤍


🚨 Dream Snake Morph Alert 🚨After 2 years of yearning, I just picked up my dream snake from .reptiles today! Appalaches R...
03/11/2024

🚨 Dream Snake Morph Alert 🚨

After 2 years of yearning, I just picked up my dream snake from .reptiles today! Appalaches Reptiles are my first choice for corn snakes, and yet again, they do not disappoint! This beautiful baby palmetto corn snake is exactly what I wanted: male, a normal palmetto phenotype, and with non-bugged eyes (enlarged/'bug' eyes is a common palmetto issue, mainly in males). This little fella is curious and already exploring his little baby enclosure 🤍

A perfect pet, and a perfect mate for my snow halo het palmetto if I decide to breed them in a few years! 🤍🧡🩶

Nothing like pulling out a fresh hatchling that's clearly going to be a beautiful high coverage tricolour 😍 Noumea x Ned...
29/10/2024

Nothing like pulling out a fresh hatchling that's clearly going to be a beautiful high coverage tricolour 😍

Noumea x Nedevin are at it again with some magic 🔮✨️

Menaku is the first to officially model with my spooky photo setup additions, spotlighting this beautiful reedbuck skull...
23/10/2024

Menaku is the first to officially model with my spooky photo setup additions, spotlighting this beautiful reedbuck skull (shoutout SkullStore Inc ) and she couldn't look better doing it 😍 This skull definitely carries some energy of the animal passed, so we try to act with respect and positive intentions when interacting with it. Mena did a very good job 🧡

Greetings friends! You may have noticed a bit less content from me lately- there's a reason for that 🤔 If you're only ...
19/10/2024

Greetings friends! You may have noticed a bit less content from me lately- there's a reason for that 🤔 If you're only following my animals and I on Facebook, you're not seeing the majority of my posts!

I've been focusing on my IG, and the platform has definitely been a better choice for me to be able to grow my audience and connect with the reptile community. I only cross-post a small portion to FB, so there's a benefit in following both!

Thank you for your support ❤️✨️

The probable female of Yava's first clutch ever! Yava is from the Winterbreeze line from Reptile Edge, and she's been pa...
16/10/2024

The probable female of Yava's first clutch ever! Yava is from the Winterbreeze line from Reptile Edge, and she's been passing down that signature dorsal to all of her LW babies so far! She couldn't have produced a more beautiful tricoloured LW if she tried 🔥😍✨️

Yava x Nedevin
NFS

I tried a new supplemental feeder for my dart frogs today, and wow it was a huge success! ✨️Confused flour beetle larvae...
23/09/2024

I tried a new supplemental feeder for my dart frogs today, and wow it was a huge success! ✨️

Confused flour beetle larvae is a high fat and high protein option to add variety for dart frogs. My frogs are already accustomed to getting occasional fruit fly larvae (compliments to uneaten gecko food), but this beetle larvae dish had them climbing over one another to search for more! Empty dish within 5 minutes of putting it in the enclosure 😀. The sifting process is a bit of work, but seeing such happy frogs have me looking forward to the next time!

Pictured is the beautiful and most wonderful Savannah, my female tinctorius azureus.

Please meet my new wonderful animals from a recent import from USA 🇺🇸 to Canada 🇨🇦 All animals arrived safe, healthy, an...
22/09/2024

Please meet my new wonderful animals from a recent import from USA 🇺🇸 to Canada 🇨🇦

All animals arrived safe, healthy, and even more beautiful in person! A big thank you to and for these exceptional animals, and to and for making this possible!

🔥🦎

Peep the last photo to see a sarasinorum boy with his pants still on 👖

Expo + import pickup went so incredibly well! I couldn't be more excited about my new animals; all healthy and even mor...
14/09/2024

Expo + import pickup went so incredibly well! I couldn't be more excited about my new animals; all healthy and even more beautiful in person. I went to the expo with the intention to learn more about the market, but came home with 2 mainland chahouas as well! The colouring on this adult pair is just incredible. The girl is Big Mad 🌩, so here's a super quick container pic of the boy! If you think he's pretty, wait to you see the female ❤️💎

Huge photo dump and seller tags when I get back home and back to my photography setup!

As a few of you may know, I've been in search of some white collared/spotted sarasinorums for a while now. After exhaus...
10/09/2024

As a few of you may know, I've been in search of some white collared/spotted sarasinorums for a while now. After exhausting some word-of-mouth leads, I've decided to import a few! I couldn't resist some nice crested geckos too since I'm already paying the fees, and I cannot wait to share my new animals with you all! Tomorrow is dubbed Bean Import Day, shortened to Beanport Day 👏🤩. Stay tuned for updates on the new babies, and shoutouts to the excellent sellers that made these beautiful animals possible.

Peep the screenshot for one of the sarasinorum babies coming! 🔥

Sunshine is conducting her own vibe check: you must be at least 80% sweet and loving to approach ❤️😊
02/09/2024

Sunshine is conducting her own vibe check: you must be at least 80% sweet and loving to approach ❤️😊

Paola is conducting a vibe check: you must be at least 60% fabulous to approach ✨️🦵
02/09/2024

Paola is conducting a vibe check: you must be at least 60% fabulous to approach ✨️🦵

Brand new baby photo dump!!Here's some babies that have not been shown before! My favourite may be obvious by the very ...
30/08/2024

Brand new baby photo dump!!

Here's some babies that have not been shown before! My favourite may be obvious by the very intentional photo vs the casual terrarium photos 😆 seeing them all grow up and develop their colouring and patterning is so rewarding. What a magical hobby ✨️ 😍

My adult frogs LOVE their vertical space! They spend more time up on the log or high up in the plants than on the subst...
28/08/2024

My adult frogs LOVE their vertical space! They spend more time up on the log or high up in the plants than on the substrate. Peep the last 2 photos for some froglets from these terribilis adults!

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Tiari x Tamao kids get this colour consistently when LW is involved! #crestedgecko #eyelashgecko #lillywhitecrestedgecko #phantomlillywhite #geckosofinstagram #geckobreeder #reptile #reptilebreeder #exoticpets #cute #gecko #reptilephotography #reels #newcaledoniangecko #correlophusciliatus

Some little wee in-house productions growing up! #crestedgecko #correlophusciliatus #gecko #geckobreeder

This will be my first of many talks about floppy tail syndrome in crested geckos. I haven't gotten myself oriented with editing software yet, so here's an unedited 3 minute exploration with Thio, my boy who developed floppy tail syndrome at a young age, and I've been working with him to mitigate symptoms, to see what can be done for this issue. He's been the first and only gecko to ever develop floppy tail on my watch, and I'm constantly researching and observing ways to avoid it and mitigate the symptoms of those who have it. I know it's a common problem, so I want to do what I can to share my results, so we can all provide better care for animals with FTS. More insight to come.

Courtship in black-footed orange terribilis frogs #dartfrogs #phyllobates

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