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1/19/11: Happy Halloween, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Happy Martin Luther King Day (and any other holidays I may have missed in the last 4 months) to all! Sorry for the paucity in updates, but things have been very hectic and busy since my return from Australia. The symposium turned out to be a let down, due to poor organization and poor attendance. It was good to hang with fellow American herpers including Rico Walder, Nick Mutton, and Marc Spataro, who I also got to go herping with in Darwin, along with my good friend Peter Birch, the Antaresia king of Australia. It was amazing to see the various herps of Sydney, Darwin and Brisbane areas. I was able to meet some very hospitable herpers, saw some amazing collections, and reconnected with some great friends in the Brisbane area. I have started to put up a report of the trip on the visits page, and will continue to add material over the next few weeks/months, so I appreciate your patience. The site was usually updated monthly, and I like to keep things fresh, so again, I appologize for the stagnant nature of the site. Hopefully I can put up several updates that will keep the regulars happy and give you a reason to come back to the site. We got many new projects this last year and I will be putting up new projects over the next little while, so stay tuned!

The Complete Carpet Python continues to sell well and we are getting some nice reviews. If you haven't picked up a copy yet, go to the Complete Carpet Python book page dedicated to the book where you can read an exerpt of the forward written by John Weigel and see other details of the book. If you think it might be the book for you, feel free to order your copy. All books can be personalized to you and can be signed either by myself (Justin), or by all 3 authors. Books can be sent anywhere in the world, just make sure to choose the appropriate option from the dropdown menu. There are many books in stock, so they can be shipped immediately to your door via USPS priority mail. Nick and I had a blast writing the book, and it was fun to really get into the published literature available for the carpets. We have an extensive natural history section, with chapters on each of the carpet python species and subspecies (Morelia spilota group, M. bredli, M. imbricata) as well as for the roughscale python (M. carinata). The species chapters are followed by a great section describing the latest research on the evolutionary history of carpet pythons with some interesting insights into the speciation and current distribution of this complex. The last half of the book covers the husbandry of the group, with a special chapter on advanced reproduction by our own Benson Morrill, PhD, followed by an extensive morph section to show off the majority of known morphs of this group. The book covers it all and we are happy with this work. Check it out and see for yourself.

Well, here are a few pictures, to tide you over until the next update. I hope to get more up very soon, within the month. We also have females that are close to laying, so things should be happening fairly early this year. More info soon. As always, GET ADDICTED!

This is a holdback female blackeyed morph of Children's python (Antaresia childreni)

Stimsons python

I am very excited about this female Stimson's python (Antaresia stimsoni orientalis)

Woma

This amazing woma python (Aspidites ramsayi) is coming along nicely. We have been growing her up slow and hope to breed her next year.

Grant, zebra jungle carpet python

Grant, our breeder male zebra jungle carpet python, has been busy this breeding season. He is still amazing to look at!

9/27/11: Getting ready to the Australian Herpetological Symposium for the launch of "The Complete Carpet Python"! Can't wait to be back in Oz! Should be a great meeting and some great herping afterwards. I am also very excited to see the finished book for the first time, so that will be a nice finish to the writing process. It is doing very well and many pre-orders for the book are coming in. There will be a limited number initially, as the majority of the books will be printed in November, so get yours early while they last! This is an exciting time and lots of good things are happening. Benson will also be at the NARBC show in Tinley to sell books at the show, so you can meet one of the authors and get his signature in the book as well, so stop by Carpet Python Alley and say hello to Ben. We have also set up a way for you to pre-order the book on this site, and this order form can be accessed through the link above. Thanks to all who have supported us in writing the book and anyone who plans to buy the book down the road as well. A lot of time and energy were put into the writing to make it a worthwhile purchase. This book contains a compilation of natural history and captive care and breeding that will appeal to the beginner as well as the experienced carpet python breeder. The book also contains many new carpet python morphs that have not been widely publicized. We hope you enjoy reading "The Complete Carpet Python"!

8/26/11: Man, time flies! Lots of stuff happening at AAR recently. Biggest news is that Ben has moved to Virginia to start a teaching job at a community college. He will now be able to represent us at some of the east coast shows. We wish him the best of luck. He started classes this week, so has been a bit busy getting a curriculum ready for his classes. So, if you are on the east coast, drop Ben a line and say hello. He should be scoping out some shows and meeting people, and we will be vending some shows in the future.

Speaking of reptile shows, the NARBC show in Anaheim, CA is just around the corner. Steve and I will be vending this year and will have some nice animals available at the show. Drop by and say hello. Shows are great and it is always great to see old friends at the show every year, as well as making some new friends and hopefully selling a lot of snakes and geckos as well. I am also gearing up for another trip over to Australia for the Australian Herpetological Symposium, which I am very excited for! It will be great to catch up with friends and get in some amazing herping as well.

New Inland Carpet Pythons!

We also got in some snakes from Europe! We now have a proven pair of Inland carpet pythons as well as a juvenile pair. They are amazing snakes! So calm and laid back with a nice bold pattern and a healthy appetite makes for a very cool captive. They should be very popular in the future as they become more available. The first clutch of inlands was produced in the US this year, so they are still quite rare in collections. We are very excited to be working with them and hope to produce them in 2012. Always great to add a new Australian python to the collection and we should have a description page up on the site soon.

Speaking of the collection pages, I updated the Stimsons python page with pictures of our adult breeder A. stimsoni. They are such great little pythons and we are very happy to be working with them. This years hatchlings started taking pink mice without much hassle and are all starting to grow like weeds. They are beautiful pythons with bold patterns and are one of the easiest of the Antaresia to get started on mice as hatchlings. The other Antaresia babies are also doing well, and many of our hatchling Pygmy pythons (A. perthensis) have started feeding on their own and are about ready to go. They are fantastic mini pythons and we are thoroughly enjoying working with them.

A Nice Female Stimsons Python

The zebra jungle carpets are coming along nicely, and all are feeding well on rats and mice. We also have a nice clutch of jaguars with some great red jags that are very nice. Our tiger male sired a clutch, so we have some coastal carpets that cary some of the genes for this nice polygenic striped trait. Our bredli clutch was fairly small this year, with only 3 eggs going the distance. These should be nice looking bredli that are het for stripe as well.

Zebra Jungle Carpet Python Hatchling

We recently put up a building for our rodents, so we can increase our feeder production. It will take a lot of work to get it up and running, with a bit of delay between now and maximum production, but we hope to at least double our current production, which in turn should result in a nice increase in snake egg production as well. I am excited about this new project! GET ADDICTED!

6/18/11: More delayed updates. Man, something must be sapping up all my time lately... Maybe some kind of carpet python book or something. More details to come.

Well, things are crazy around here. Lots of writing, babies hatching, cleaning cages, etc. Just the usual routine in the early summer. We successfully hatched out our first clutches of Pygmy pythons (Antaresia perthensis)! We have some nice genetic diversity in our collection and I got two clutches from unrelated pairs from two different lines; Lazik line and Patterson line. They are fantastic snakes! The pygmys are so easy going and calm and they are fast becoming one of my favorite snakes. The amazing reds really make them attractive pythons, and it is so nice to be able to house an adult python in such a small enclosure. I am curious to see how it will be to get them feeding on rodents. As advised by other perthensis breeders, I am starting them out on mouse parts until they seem to eat them without hesitation. This is going well and hopefully they will be eating on their own soon and will be ready for new homes. Contact me (Justin) if you would like to work with these amazing snakes. The other three members of the Antaresia genus also hatched out and we have some incredible super-red childrens pythons (A. childreni), some nice Cape York spotteds (A. maculosa) and some high-orange stimsons pythons (A. stimsoni). We were happy to hatch out all 4 species in the Antaresia genus. For anyone that is not familiar with this group of snakes, you really need to do yourself a favor and do some research. These snakes are easy to keep, easy to breed, are relatively small as adults (the four smallest pythons in the world), and come in a variety of colors and patterns. You will be glad you looked into them.

A pygmy python hatchling.

Our first zebra jungle carpet python (Morelia spilota cheynei) clutch hatched as well, but we got low odds on this one with 3.3 zebras and a bunch of normals. Oh well. I have just started offering pink rats, and a few have taken without hesitation, so these should be ready to go soon. These were sired by our amazing zebra male, Grant, who is arguably one of the best zebras in the world. His yellow is still vibrant and clean and he has an amazing intricate pattern. The female was a Hamper/Lazik female with some great yellow, so these will be quality zebras. We have been producing zebra jungle carpets since 2009, so we can provide you with some amazing animals. We also hatched out jungle carpet pythons from our stripe project. The striped jungle clutch was sired by Skunk and the Dam was Flower. They are amazing animals with nearly complete stripes and intense yellow. This is one of our most anticipated clutches. One of the males produced is a tri-stripe and he will be held back to further refine our stripes. Our goal is to one day consistently produce tristripe jungles with velvet black bordering neon yellow striping. A limited number of striped jungles will be available, so call Ben if interested. The Darwin carpet python (M. s. variegata) is developing nicely. The female is a champion eater and is growing quickly and is developing some nice oranges in her pattern. I am very excited to produce these guys down the road!

Darwin carpet python female.

Geckos have also started to hatch. Steve has had his first clutch of northern rough knob-tail geckos (Nephrurus asper) hatch! These are realtively rare in herpetoculture, and Steve has some very strong lines that have been productive and robust. The smooth knobtails (N. levis levis) have also started to hatch and we should have some nice reds available later this year. The centralian rough knobtials (N. amyae) are also starting to lay clutches, and this should be a productive year. We should also produce some nice banded knobtails (N. wheeleri), and Steve has been adding to his wheeleri colony.

Jaguar coastal carpet pythons (M. s. mcdowelli) and Angolan pythons (Python anchietae) should also be hatching very soon, so we will have nice examples of these pythons available in a few weeks as well. The Angolans sold very well last year, so if you are interested in some quality specimens, contact us for more details.

I also made a trip out to South Dakota and Reptile Gardens, so as soon as I am done with this writing business, I will post the pictures taken. What a great place. Terry was very accomodating and it was great to hang out with him and his family. He has an amazing knowledge of so many different species, and it doesn't hurt that we share a common interest in the Morelia genus. His skill with venomous snakes was unequaled and it was amazing to watch him work with snakes from death adders to king cobras. I got some great shots, which will be posted soon. It was also great to be able to see the rough-scale pythons (M. carinata) as well as some amazing Perenties (Varanus giganteus). We are already planning on making a trip out there again! Thanks again, Terry.

I got to hold a freaking perentie!!!

All in all, it is shaping up to be a nice year. It is sure great to be able to work with these wonderful reptiles. GET ADDICTED!

3/30/11: I appologize for the delay since the last update, but this entry will be full of good news and some good pictures, so hopefully all will be forgiven. Had some meetings in Washington DC. Usually the days are just packed with the meetings, but this year I snuck out for a couple hours to go run through the National Zoo. It would be great if there was a little time to see more of the sights in the Capital, but the meetings are great too. The zoo was cool and the pandas were out cruising around, which is something you don't see at many zoos. They also had a Japanese giant salamander, a freaking huge amphibian, which was worth the trip over there. The herp house is a little light, but they have some freshwater crocs, komodo dragons, and some Mertens water monitors. Was also really cool to see the orangutans climb on the wires above the walkways of the zoo. The elephant enclosure is also amazing with a large area for the elephants to cruise around. It was a very quick trip, but fun enough. I did get a bit of flack when I got back, as one overzealous secretary hounded me a bit, but it was worth it, plus it was my birthday, so I think I deserved a little trip to the zoo. Also got to eat a doener, which I haven't had since I was in Berlin last. Wonderful stuff!

Egg production has started full force! One exciting accomplishment was the production of all 4 species of the Antaresia genus in one season. Our first two clutches of the year were from our two Cape York spotted python (A. maculosa) females, which they actually coiled properly around; a big change from last year when they scattered them around the cage and most went bad during incubation, likely from dehydration. The next clutch was from one of our pygmy pythons (A. perthensis), which was a whopping 12 eggs. In the book Keeping and Breeding Australian Pythons, it records clutch size for A. perthensis between 3 and 11 eggs, so we one-upped the normal range. Hopefully the majority will hatch and we will have plenty of pygmy pythons, which are rapidly becoming one of my favorite snakes. They are so mild-mannered and beautiful that it is hard not to be impressed by them. I am a little fearful of getting the hatchlings feeding, but I have heard it is not as terrible as it is made out to be. Next Antaresia clutch was from a childrens python (A. childreni) female, a first-time breeder with a small clutch of 4. This clutch was followed by 2 more childreni females. The last clutch was a bit of a surprise from a Stimsons python (A. stimsoni). This female kept feeding and was swollen in the latter third for several months, so I just thought she was overweight or something. When I went to check on her after my trip to DC, she was coiled up nicely. The eggs must have been in there for a couple days, as the ones on top were a bit dessicated, but the most look great. She completed the slam dunk of the Antaresia. Now it is going to be interesting to see how it will be to have so many baby Ants. I should have an update soon of dwarf pythons hatching left and right.

1/25/11: Happy New Year. Hope you are all sticking to your New Years resolutions of getting more snakes and lizards. I had a great start to the new year with a nice snowboarding trip with my brother in law Anson, hanging with my family, seeing a few good lock-ups and other assorted breeding activity, and getting some nice funding for my research at the University. Ben has been busy with his comprehensive exams for his PhD work and Steve is starting volunteer work at the Phoenix Zoo, so a lot of great things going on in the new year. Unfortunately, my macro lens on my Nikon broke, but we picked up a nice 18-55 mm lens as a replacement and it works nicely. I have a few pictures below that I took with the new lens. The old lens was luckily stuck in macro mode, so I may use it occasionally, but I am happy with the new one too.

There has been lots of breeding activity going on, some good, some not so good. I had our female diamond in with some other females and introduced our male zebra jaguar in with the group only to have him start combating with the diamond. Turns out the diamond is a male, which was confirmed easily using the probe set. We were looking forward to seeing what a 50% diamond zebra jag would look like. We do have a high percentage diamond jungle cross in with him, so we will get a good idea, but it was sad to have a female turn out to be a male. We really need to be more vigilant at rechecking genders when we get snakes. Sad we have had the diamond for several years now and never knew the correct gender. This diamond project was kind of a train wreck, with one dying shortly after getting the pair, both turning out to be males, and originating from what was considered a questionable diamond line, so all in all is was a nice little failure. Oh well, live and learn. I do need to get a group of diamonds sometime down the line. They are such cool animals with such different adaptations. There is a surprising amount of published literature on diamonds which gives some nice insight into how these snakes should be kept in captivity. We hope to try a diamond project again soon.

This is a great time of year with all the potential for production. I really hope we have a good year of production. Would love to have a few zebra and zebra jag clutches produced this year. Would also be cool to produce some pygmy pythons and stimsons pythons for the first time this year as well as some black-headed monitors. We will see how the year goes. Our holdback zebra male from 2009 has been showing some breeding activity with some big jungle girls, so hopefully we will get to see what his offspring look like this year. For some reason, no males really pay attention to our adult zebra female. Not quite sure what is going on with her, but I really hope she will produce this year. Would be nice to produce some super zebras. Our holdback females from '09 are doing fantastically well, so we will have a few of those ready for this next year. I would also like to be able to produce some granite IJs this year as well, so hopefully our males are getting the job done. We will have the most out crossed granites available, which will hopefully help in breeding out some of the weak traits that have been seen in the granites that are likely a result of inbreeding. Just one of the fun side effects associated with a recessive trait. Anyway, lots of fun during this time of year and I can't wait for eggs. Well, here are a couple random pictures. Hope your breeding seasons are going well. GET ADDICTED!


Male holdback zebra jungle	Another shot of Grant, our zebra	Male Stimsons python	Female Stimmy	Killer bee mojave ball	Spider mojave het pied

12/24/10: Merry Christmas! It is nice to have a little time off of work to hang out with my family. I was just hanging out with the kids watching Planet Earth and relaxing, so I thought it would be good chance to put up an update for the holidays.

I had some great visitors, Matt and Dave, a son and father who came to check out the collection. Matt reminded me of myself at his age, and I was really impressed with his knowledge of our animals and his enthusiasm for this great hobby. He represents the future of herpetoculture and it was great to see the future is in good hands. Meeting great people is one of the nice sidebars of working with these amazing animals. It is really important that breeders and hobbyists do all they can to bolster the next generation of keepers and share information and insight that will give them the best chances for success. Good experiences early on are important for the development of the future reptile and amphibian hobbyists and breeders. When I was a kid, I didn't even realize breeding was an option. I did have great locals, like Louis Porras, who ran Zooherp and was really cool about letting me come check things out and spending time showing me all the cool animals he kept. Looking back on that now, I realize how nice that really was, and he could have just as easily given me the cold shoulder or restricted my "tour" of his facility. I am thankful to those who showed me the ropes and invited me over to see thier collections and I hope to do the same for others.


Male het albino carpet	Female. Love that color!	More recent shot of the male	Probable male pilbarensis	Likely male and female pilabras	HB male zebra jungle

Well, we were fortunate enought to pick up some new cool projects! We got an amazing pair of het albino variegata, and I am very excited to see them mature and grow and hopefully produce a few albinos down the road. In the box were a couple of het axanthic coastals as well, so that will be another fun project. Steve also picked up a nice (hopeful) pair of Varanus glauerti, which are doing well, growing large, and looking more and more like it is a pair. On a related note, the V. pilbarensis are doing well and getting some nice color and it looks like we have at least a pair. They are such fun monitors and look really great. I am really enjoying keeping monitors again, and with the roaches (or more importantly without the pain of ordering crickets), they are really fun and entertaining to watch.

I got all the reptile photos arranged and put an Australia report up on the visits page. The trip was so amazing and almost feels like it wasn't real. I also got a bunch of videos edited and put them up on youtube, so check them out. They include some wild monitors, green tree pythons, and a jungle carpet python, among others. Can't wait to get back again! I sure miss the weather right now during the cold months in Northern Utah. It was so amazing to see some of the animals I keep in captivity out in their native environment. The addiction level has increased! The scientist part of me wanted to follow them around for a few days and observe them, while the herper in me wanted to check more and more off my life list of species. It was the trip of a lifetime and I can't wait to do it again. GET ADDICTED!

11/2/10: Well, I am back from Australia. Almost have pictures ready to put up on the web, so check back soon. It was an amazing trip! Not much better than being able to live my lifelong dream of herping Australia. Met some great people and saw some amazing animals and country. Unfortunately, it just makes me want to go back as soon as possible. Thanks again to my beautiful wife who sent me over there, Jason and Neil of the Australian Herpetological Symposium, all the guys I got to herp with, Joe and his family, Steve and Lavina, and Chris, and all the others! Can't wait to go back! More details to follow soon. GET ADDICTED!

Here are a couple teaser photos:


Boyd's Forrest Dragon	Wild Jungle from Tinaroo	Leaf-tail Gecko Fig Tree	Female Ackie- Amazing!	Bearded Dragon	Mulga Snake- Impressive

8/26/10: Well, great things happening at Australian Addiction Reptiles lately! We have had some new projects, some very exciting clutches hatch out, including some rare hatchlings, and some first time productions at AAR. I have finally managed to get some Pilbara rock monitors (Varanus pilbarensis)! We picked up a clutch of these amazingly cool monitor lizards and they are very entertaining to watch. Hopefully they do well here and we will be able to offer some up in the future for purchase. These are some of the coolest and most colorful monitors around and they are relatively rare in US collections, so we are fortunate to work with them. Check out the pilbarensis page for more info and some pics of the little varanids.

We've had our first Nephrurus asper or prickly knobtail gecko, hatch out, and it is awesome! Looks like it will likely turn out to be a light phase asper. It is starting to get a little orange coloration on its nose. We are excited to see how this little gecko turns out. Some amyae have also hatched out and we have listed some for sale on the available page. These are from some great looking and vibrant Lazik lines. We also had a couple Nephrurus wheeleri, banded geckos, hatch out recently as well and they are doing fantastic and growing quickly. Not sure if you caught Steve and me on Reptile Radio talking geckos, so here is a link to our show. It is fun chatting with the RR guys and we appreciate the efforts they go to to produce such a quality show. Unfortunately, the show heading calls Steve, Scott, so I better clarify that his name is Steve. We'll forgive them, though (LOL). If you are unfamiliar with Reptile Radio, check it out!


Our first asper hatching!	Little asper out of the egg

We also had a great result from a breeding loan with our friend Chris. He sent up his female pied and we bred her to our male bumblebee mojave. The clutch hatched a week or two ago and we were lucky to produce a male bumblebee mojave, 1.2 pastaves, and 1.0 normal, all of which are het pied! They look fantastic and the pastaves almost glow! It will be fun to breed the bumblebee mojave het pied male to pied and het pied females in the coming years and see what cool pied morphs we can produce. It is nice when a breeding loan goes so smoothly, as they seldom seem to do.

Many of the available pages have been updated with 2010 stock, including the centralian python, zebra and normal jungle carpet pythons, woma, and amyae pages, so check them out and let us know what you would like. The zebras are selling well, so if you want one, you better act quickly. It is a smart plan to pick up a female this year, while they are cheaper than males, in anticipation of producing super zebras, the yellow patternless jungle carpet python. The centralians look great again this year. Last years hatchlings from this pairing turned out amazing! We have lots of extra males, so if you are looking for a reverse trio, we'll make you a nice deal. The amyae hatchlings look amazing and are ready to go. We are happy to offer some of these amazing geckos for sale.

The reptile show season is coming up very quickly. We will be in Anaheim in a couple weeks, and after that we will be in Vegas, Tucson, Salt Lake, and possibly Pheonix. Come check us out at the booth and introduce yourself. We are always excited to meet fellow fans of Australian herps. My trip to Australia is getting closer and closer and I can't wait to get over there for some amazing herping. I plan to return with plenty of pictures, which I will put up on the site. It will be fun to see these amazing animals in their natural habitat! I am going to be careful not to even touch any of the animals in the wild to avoid any implication in illeagal acts. Rest assurred, I will leave Australia with only photos. My career and collection are not worth losing. I will be happy enough just to observe them in the wild. Should be a great trip! Looking forward to spending time with my dad as well. I am fortunate to have such a great dad that will hang out with his crazy son on a herping trip to the middle of Australia. My parents are the best!

Well, check out the updates and let us know how we can help you out with your addiction to these awesome animals. Get Addicted!

7/21/10: Things have been crazy around here with hatchling season, and I let a month go by without an update. We have had some great animals hatching out the last couple months. I really enjoy this time of year! Perhaps the most exciting clutch of the year is the Zebra Jungle Carpet clutch from our zebra male Grevy bred to Sis, a nice female jungle. The babies are very nice and we have to keep a couple of this years hatchlings. I am really loving this project and it is great to see the little zebras emerging from the eggs. Unfortunately, this was the only zebra clutch for us this year. It seemed to be a common theme, as very few zebras were produced in the US, with a few notable breeders striking out or producing very few of them. Should be a viable project for years to come. The super zebra project is still in it's infancy and only a small number have been produced in the world. I am very excited for the 2010 breeding season, when we can use Grant in our production. Grevy has an amazingly intricate pattern, but his color is not the best. Breeding him to Grade A female jungles produced some phenominal zebras with Grevy's pattern and the females color (as seen in the last update!), resulting in some contenders for the nicest zebras in the country after only 1 year of selected breeding. I can only imagine how insanely nice the offspring of zebras produced by the '09 zebras bred to some nice jungles. Should blow some minds! The babies from this years clutch should turn out just as nice as last years babies. One male has some insane striping, which is interesting, as the dam of the clutch is siblings to Skunk, our striped male jungle, so it looks like some striping went to this little guy. I am so curious to see what he looks like once his yellow starts coming in. I am also very curious to see how the super zebras produced from our F1s will look! Check out our Available Zebras page for pictures of all the available 2010 offspring.

Another notable accomplishment was the hatching of two clutches of Angolan pythons. Ben did a great job with these guys and the babies look great! A few have some really cool striped patterns. It is always nice to hatch out a new species of python. Angolans are still fairly rare in herpetoculture and prices are coming down to reasonable levels so more people can enjoy these amazing pythons. They have beaded scales, which give them a very cool feel. They are very good feeders, compared to their fellow Africans- the ball python- although they do get a bit larger. Angolans are great snakes and we are excited to be able to offer them for sale. Check them out on our Available Angolan page.

Yet another first for AAR is Steves production of Prickly Knobtails (Nephrurus asper) and Centralian Knobtails (Nephrurus amyae). We were fortunate to get viable eggs from the asper and the female is on her third clutch of the year. Can't wait to see how the babies look. Several amyae have hatched out and we gotten 6 clutches for the year so far. Check back soon if you are interested in getting some amazing amyae. These little basketball heads are some of the coolest geckos on the planet. Steve is rocking the knobtails and also has several Smooth Knobtail (N. levis levis) eggs currently incubating as well. We do have a few awesome male levis up for sale as well. Check them out on the Available levis page. I also have a couple of wheeleri clutches incubating and hopefully I can get some to hatch out soon.

On the ball python front, we were lucky enough to produce a super pastel spider mojave (Yee Haw on the 4-banger!) with a sister that is a bumblebee mojave. Also got a nice clutch of eggs from the bumblebee mojave to a pied female, so we should have some awesome morph het pieds hatching out in a month or so. We had a cool little dinker project, but it didn't really pan out with anything too special. We had an interesting female that had many characteristics of a morph. She produced a male spider that looked a little different from the normal spiders, so we kept him back and bred him back to the dam. The spiders that came out are really nice, but I don't think there is much else going on with them. Just some really nice reduced spiders.

We had some eggs from Skunk to Flower, which is a fun striped project, but unfortunately only one egg made it to hatching, and we are keeping the hatchling as a holdback to produce some cool stripes down the road. Both of our female Centralian pythons laid clutches this year, one of which has hatched. The babies are great, but they are a bit male heavy. They look great and are het for stripe. The second clutch should be hatching very soon, so hopefully that clutch is female heavy. Also produced some babies from our black-eyed childrens python male to a female VPI childrens. I was told that they are a recessive trait, but some of the babies look like they have black eyes. I need to take some pics soon so you can judge for yourself. I also need to check closely to see if they have keeled dorsal scales. The black-eyed childrens did originate at VPI, so it is possible that the female breeder from VPI that produced them was also a het for black-eye. Hopefully I can figure out what is going on with these. The woma babies produced this year are amazing. Unfortunately I only produced 2 clutches with 4 babies each. These are very nice babies from our nicest pairs. We also produced some nice jaguar coastal carpets from our red morph jaguar to a nice coastal female, so they should be up for sale soon too.

Anyway, we are off to a great start with this years offspring! We have a few more clutches in the incubator, so check the available page to see what we are producing. Thanks for your support and GET ADDICTED!

5/18/10: Getting excited for the zebra clutch to hatch, so I got the camera out last night for a Jungle photo session. Just pictures today. Oh, and some womas are out of the egg too! GET ADDICTED!


Three in the bucket	Add one more	Grant, HB male zebra	Grant, up close and personal	Fiesty female number 5	A little close, watch that bite!	Female 6 has a neat pattern	Another angle of female 6	Female 3 is a knockout!


Python Pete line girl	I really like this female	Stripe-line female	Stripe-line male, nice!	Female from Steve	A little closer, looking good.	Pinstripey female	Sis. Not bad for an old gal.