July 30, 2010

Lavender Jungle het Raptor Hatchlings

This morning I found this pair hatched. They wasn't due for another week so it was a pleasant surprise. They come from Hue and Dorthy (Raptor x Jungle Snow). If they are anything like the older sibling I got a few weeks ago from the same parents, then the black will turn lavender. Ive noticed something about these 3 babies from that pair that's pretty interesting thus far. On all 3 the end of the tail is blueish gray. It will be fun watching them grow.

July 28, 2010

Bell Albino eggs Hatched! =)

Ok so we have been waiting on our first pair of Bell albino eggs to hatch and yesterday they finally did after 41 days of incubation. They were incubated for males, with the hope of replacing my current breeding male, with one of these two that hatched. What I'm looking for is a nice Tangerine Bell to go with my female. Our male is bright but not really sporting the markings that I wanted in a mate for her. These two that was born yesterday look promising, not to mention they are HUGE babies. They are almost the same size as a 1 month old Leopard gecko. So I'm considering the possibility that they may be Giants. I spoke with Nevin Moyer, the friend who I got the parents from, and we cant figure out why these two babies would be so large since neither of the parents are large themselves. He has a line of "Liberty Bells" but the parents arent from that line I don't think, and even if they were, like Trempers, the parents must visibly be Giants in order to pass the Giant gene. So I don't know what to think about the large size of these two babies. I will keep everyone updated with growth rates as time passes.