Thursday, May 15, 2008

Pics Of Some Animals I Produced A Few Years Ago

I got an email from Bob Hansen yesterday with an attachment of some pictures of some agalma that I sold him a few years ago. I don't remember them looking this good! I think my babies get brighter as they get older.


Monday, May 12, 2008

Last Clutch Of The Year Laid Over The Weekend

I had my fourth female lay her clutch of eggs over the weekend. She went 8 for 8. I'm very happy about it. This male x female breeding combo produced the female that double clutched for me last year. I took some pics of with the clutch that I'll post later tonight when I get home. This gives me a total of 26 fertile eggs this year out of 34 for a 76% fertility rate...not bad, but I'm always trying to improve these things.

*************** Please Note My New Deposit Policy *************

For all of those interested in possibly obtaining some babies this year, now would be a good time to send me an email reaffirming your previous interest or if you're a new customer and want to get on my "list" for my Baja Mountain Kings. I was thinking about this all weekend and I am going to start requiring deposits on animals this year as a way to further filter the serious and non serious inquiries I get from people. I figure this will save me a lot of time. The babies will range from $250 to $1000. To reserve animals, I am going to require a 20% deposit. With 26 babies potentially, I am going to take deposits on at least 16 of them. I won't know how many "$250" animals there will be or how many "$1000" animals as well(probably three or four maybe). Let me know in your email which price range of animals you prefer. The email to use is:

gab200176@yahoo.com

The deposit will be non refundable if I produce the animals and you back out of the deal. If I don't produce the animals, I will either refund your deposit or keep it and you'll be first on the list next year.

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Third Clutch....

was laid in the middle of the night last night. They are from the female that gave me 8 out of 11 good eggs/babies last year. This year the fertility was a little worse. She laid 10 eggs and out of those, 5 appear to be fertile. Oh well. I guess I shouldn't be expecting perfection every year, but it's a shame that all that good body weight the female had put on was not used to its full potential. The male that I used was a smaller first time breeder. I guess I'll lay the blame on him for now, LOL. He is my absolute best looking male, so I guess it wasn't a total bust, but I'd have liked to have had better percentage of fertile eggs. I got spoiled last year. So this brings the year up to 18 out of 26 so far with one more girl to lay any day. I'm not anticipating any double clutches out of the girls. Here's a pic of the third female with her clutch. Can you see the "sheen"/wet look on the infertile eggs?





This is the father of this clutch.