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I’ve been waiting a long time for this….

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Mojave female that was bred by black pastel male sitting on her eggs

(Mojave x Black Pastel = AWESOME!)

 

I have been waiting I believe almost a year for these guys. I think it was close to a year I ago that I came across the Black Pastel Mojave that was posted on Ball-python.net. The poster was referencing the Black Pastel Mojave as the “Black Magic”. He wasn’t kidding either. Check out the pic below:

Black Magic

(The Black Magic aka the black pastel mojave)

 

This morning it turns out that I have 5 chances at hitting the odds and producing a “Black Magic”. I really want to hit on a male to hold back for myself. It would be super sweet if we produce more than one of them. Could you imagen if all 5 eggs turn out to be full of magic? Hehehe I had to…

(It’s like Christmas in April!)

 

I am so happy we ended up with 5 eggs. When I originally palpated the mojave female I only felt 3 maybe 4 eggs.  Boy am I glad I was wrong. I’ll take all I can get. I almost forgot, all of the eggs are possible het ghost as well!!!

We also got another clutch today as well. Not as exciting, but well worth it if you ask me. It was a clutch from one of my normal females that was bred by our pied. Hoping for a clutch filled with females on that one.  Who doesn’t need an army of female het pieds? LOL!

 

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Post white plains reptile expo update – Picked up a little pewter action

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Well things have been chugging along here. We had a great white plains expo recently. Had a ton of fun, talked to a bunch of herpers and saw some really cool animals.

I have had my eye on the lookout for something new to add to the collection for a few weeks now. As you will find out when your collection grows to a certain point it gets real hard to add new morphs to it. It seems the more you have your bases covered the hard it gets. But boy, when I saw this little guy I knew I had to make an offer on him.

 

He is a late 2010, early 2011 black pastel pewter. He is almost axanthic looking in certain lights. He does have faint yellow tinting that I am sure will shine through the older he gets, but man he is a looker right now!

 

I wasn’t even sure I was going to bring him home until after the expo ended. I took one more look around and scooped him up before I left!
 

 

Next time I’ll talk about feeding smaller ball pythons and tricks to get a stubborn feeder to eat!

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2011 ball python breeding season is off to a bang!

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Last night with the coming full moon I decided it was time to put some males in with some females. I still have some females that I need to fatten up a little more, but some of my girls were laying on the cool side so I said, what the heck!

 

Here is my studly mojave male. He is such an awesome breeder male. I wish every male was like him. As soon as he smells the ladies his tail goes up and he does his thing.

I am really excited to see what this black pastel 100% het ghost male does for me this season. He is a stud breeder just like my mojave and this is actually the second female he is breeding for me this year. As you can see he is looking for her tail, no worries though once he finds it he will be locked for hours!

 

So yeah we are off to a great start this season. We have also booked the WhitePlains Reptile expo for right after thanksgiving and we also booked the hamburg reptile expo on Dec 4th! We are so pumped too be vending at both expos. We have such a great time talking shop all day. I can’t wait.

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