Captive Bred Reptiles
Yesterday was a good day. I came home from work to find that Marge had her babies. This was a Dubay Line Orangetail Hypo boa x Salmon Jungle boa breeding. I haven’t pulled the babies yet, so I’m not sure what the count is. I do know that there are a lot of Jungles. I’ll be keeping a few from this litter that’s for sure!
Once the babies start moving around, I will pull them and get a count. Here are some pictures of the litter.
This is Marge. She is a Dubay Line Orangetail Hypo boa. As you can see, she is HUGE. Actually, the pictures in no way show how stuffed she really is. She still has about 2 weeks left. I can’t wait!!! She was bred with a really nice salmon jungle boa.
This is the same girl that produced my arabesque litter last year. She is twice as big as she was with that litter. Maybe twice the babies?
I was so happy with the babies she had last year. The color she passed on was amazing. With each shed those babies keep getting better. These babies should be even better!
Have you ever visited a website and wondered why people put numbers in front of an animal name or species? Well, those numbers tell the sex of the animal.
For example:
1.0 Albino Boa = one male boa
0.2 Bearded Dragons = two female dragons
0.0.1 Ball Python = one ball python sex unknown
3.2.1 Leopard Geckos = three male, two female, one sex unknown
We had some ups and downs this boa breeding season. We were really bummed out with the results of a few litters, but really excited and happy with the others. We have one more female left to drop. This is the girl that produced the hypo arabesque babies last year. These should be some insane salmon jungle babies!
Here is a list of our 2008 boa pairings:
Well, that’s it for this year. I did have a few other parings, but they didn’t take. Maybe this coming season.
In my leopard gecko care guide, I mention two products that I use to supplement my leo’s diet. Vionate vitamin mineral powder and Osteo-Form Calcium.
Here are two places that I have found to order the products from. Unfortunately, I haven’t found one place that sells both products.
In addition, here are a couple good places to get food dishes for your geckos:
Unfortunately, my site has been down for the last few weeks. My website host recently upgraded their web servers. When they did this, my site broke. After a few weeks of troubleshooting and having others look at the problem, I gave up. I found a new shopping cart called WP e-Commerce. It took some time, but it’s installed and seems to be working great.
The next step is to start adding animals to the site. We’ve had a pretty good year so far and have a lot of animals that will be available soon. I’m especially excited about our boa litters this year. Within the next few days, I’ll start posting pictures of the babies.
Check out the new cart. Just click on Available Animals.
On August 18, 2007, our pastel hypo red tail boa which was bred with an arabesque male had babies. This was her first litter. She gave us twenty-six amazing babies. Five hypo arabesque, nine arabesque, four hypo, and eight normal babies. There were no slugs or still born.
Here she is in a dark phase…
Here’s a pile of baby red tails…
I was really amazed by this girls babies! Before they had their first shed, I could tell they were awesome.
Of the five hypo arabesque babies, I’m keeping two. A male and a female. Here’s a pre-shed picture of a hold back hypo arabesque…
Here’s a picture of an arabesque baby. Check out this guys tail…
This is a post shed picture of the hypo arabesque above. Notice how bright and clean she is…
Another…
These babies will make for some terrific future projects. Imagine the potential of these babies when injected into any project such as Arabesque Sunglows, use your imagination! We would love to hold all of these back, but just can’t keep everything. I guarantee, whomever ends up adding these animals into their collection will not be disappointed!
