GHI REPTILES

I haven't posted in awhile so this should make up for it!

Things have been going great with the baby amazons I had in '09. My two tiger litters were outstanding and the babies I have kept are growing well and are as snappy as ever. This season I have decided to breed a male colored tiger to a candycane tiger and the female looks like she is in the begining stages of ovulating. Here is a pic of the pairing.

I also had a great discovery last recentlt. My '07 solid yellow male from my tiger x Lemon Drop breeding is actually a yellow tiger! When he was born I thought he was a cool looking tiger but then the striping faded. After shedding last week I noticed the tiger striping was pretty bold...and a darker yellow. Last season he bred my solid orange tiger female (she's got two black pinstripes), and there were some non-tiger babies in the litter! Here's the yellow tiger male.

Last week I started putting him in with one of my female 'Red Hots' and here's a photo I took this morning of the pairing.

I'm also pairing a couple of my '06 Candycanes and they are really cool looking. The whole litter turned out to be just awesome and maybe this pairing will produce some equally spectacular babies.

I had a great season with the tigers and ended up with 13 from two litters. One died a few days after being born so I am left with 12 of the little ones. One of the breedings was a repeat with my garden tiger male breeding an orange and black banded female. For the second time in a row she produced 8 tigers...3 garden phase and 5 orange phase. Here are a couple of the little ones.

It was a great litter and 7 of the 8 will be available as soon as they start feeding regularly.

My other tiger litter was just amazing and the babies are stunning! I bred my solid yellow male from Lemon Drop to a solid orange female tiger with a couple of black pinstripes. Here are some of the babies from this litter which I am calling my 'Orange Crush' litter.

Here is one of the coolest tigers I have ever produced. I love the color!!!

I am already planning my pairings for this upcoming season and they include:

1 - An orange and red striped tiger male bred to one of my candycane tigers who is also orange and red

2 - A calico 'Red Hot' bred to my other candycane tiger who is orange and red striped. (the calico trait is dominant so my hopes are to make a calico red and white stripes tiger. I know it's a strech but I can dream!).

3 & 4 - Two calico 'Red Hots' to two of my proven red females...c'mon more calico 'Red Hots'!

5 - One of my Calico Candycanes bred to another Calico Candycane. Both are '06 animals and both are pink with calico markings. This project has me pretty excited so hopefully all will go well with it!

So that's a little amazon update and once I get the babies on a regular feeding schedule and sexed...I will add them to my available page. If anyone is interested in babies please contact me with what you are looking for because I do have some interest since I have been posting pics and I just sold one of the orange tigers today (November 5th).

Thanks!

Matt

Thanks to my friend Kevin McCurley I have produced my first Inferno this season! What a beautiful thing to see in the egg...and of course out too. This male is a quad combo and the ingredients are: Hidden Gene Woma, NERD's line of crazy Granite, Pastel, and Yellow Belly. All four coming together is a rarity but I was lucky enough to hit it. Here he is...

I have always been thrilled when I have had litters of atb's and this is my first litter from my own cbb animals. There are some very impressive tigers and some equally impressive colored babies so I am very happy. I will get a couple of pics up in the next few days and loads once they shed.

These are pretty cool combos and I am happy with this boy that just emerged fom his egg this evening!

Still kicking butt this week with all kinds of things hatching out. What a great time of year!

Here's a hidden gene woma that emerged from it's egg yesterday. If anyone wants to know the difference between a hidden gene woma and a normal woma...put the two side by side and it should be apparent. They are definitely two separate morphs

My first babies of the season have started to emerge from their eggs. These are the first two that have come out of a pastel yellow belly x specter clutch. No superstripes...hmmm...but these will do!

What a better way to show off an F1 calico red hot than a little tongue flicking action on cue! This is one of the two calico red hot males that bred one of my calico red hot females this season so hopefully I will have some F2 calico babies to show off in the fall!

I'm very happy this morning because I got eight huge eggs from one of my adult female yellow bellies. She was bred by a specter male and the combination is whats needed to produce the 'superstripe' morph. Additionally this female is the darkest yellow belly I have ever seen and i love the look she has. Here she is sitting on eggs this morning.

About a year and a half ago this last female delivered 15 beautiful babies and tonight she is going through her post ovulation (POS) shed. She was bred by one of my male Tigers so I am looking forward to seeing some stripers from her! Here's an older photo of the pair breeding from two seasons ago!