There comes a time in a Breeder's life that they take a look at their collection and what others are working with and the question get's posed, "Why don't I have one of those?". This happened with us not long ago. While talking to a friend we can to realize that not only did we not have a certain basic combo...but we couldn't even produce one for at least three years..

Well this simply will not do.. So I contacted Tim Johnson of Royal Morphz and sealed the deal on a little male.. Now if he grows good and breeds young..we'll see about producing some Sterlings this coming spring..

Once I've started getting some different combo's and multi gene animals into the collection it makes for some interesting conversations. While talking to a good friend of mine about future plans and breeding collection the idea of "Backup males" came up. These are males that will be bred to females along with other males. In our collection these are combo or super males this way we are assured to get a good mix of the same gene.

During this conversation I made mention of the fact that I needed a backup Pin male..Our pinstripe male hasn't bred for us two years in a row now (very frustrating), My good friend started to laugh and said you have a Backup Pin male. I assured him I didn't, till he reminded me we had picked up a male "Lemon Blast" last year..

I find that when I stop and think about it there are things we have in the racks that get me really excited about future production..Thing like breeding a Sugar female to a Killer blast or Killer Bee female.

In 2005 I got to see a morph that would kick off this huge obsession of mine. Adam Wysocki of 8Ball pythons posted a pic of his Pied Ball Python. I wanted one, craved one, my dreams were haunted with thought's of owning one. So in 2006 While trying to pay for a House, wedding, and looking for a job I talked my wonderful wife to be in to letting me spend insane money on a snake a 2005 Het Pied male. I found one here on this site for sale from Daniel1983 (if you're reading this man it's been a journey) so after forking out the exorbitant amount of 250.00 for a snake I had my path to hatching pied's. Then in 2007 I picked up a wee little Het female from NERD. My plan was to breed the two.

As the female grew so did my buying power so to speak and last year we picked up a 2008 Male pied. I had a pied, my GOD was I happy.. Then this year..


Holy smokes I was doing a happy dance.. To see with my eye's a Pied Breeding right there in my tubs.. :banana::banana::banana::banana:

So Tonight things have come 3/4's of a full circle after starting with 1 snake and the dream of hatching pied I open a tub and see this

The Start of ovulation..




I can die a happy man now..

Well we have started hatching out some ball pythons Our first clutch was a small three egg clutch but we got 1 normal and 2 lesser's so I'm happy. We still have some clutches on the was which is a good thing. I know I know quick post today and it's bee forever but I'm so busy that I rarely have time to sit and just type these days.

First of all I know that it has been forever that I haven't written in this in a while but I'm here now. I'll try and catch everyone up. Our breeding is going great we even got our first clutch of the 2010 year. It was a surprise clutch that I didn't even know we were getting. Nothing like a clutch of Lesser's cooking in the bator for the first clutch.

Now on two this time of year that I love to feed so much. It's always daunting to dodge all those teeth but I like that I don't have to wait around for snakes to eat. When they take the rat out of mid air or right off the tongs. It really does my heart good to see the 09's eating and growing so well.

I'll try and make a better effort to write in here and keep it up but I stay so busy it's really hard to find the time what with the baby on the way and all the home improvements I stay out of pocket..

More clutches to come some really fun stuff we're looking forward to.

it has started getting warmer this last week and that means that we should start getting some ovulation's. But as normal things are going slower than I would like. But it's looking like we are going to have a race between a spider clutch, Hypo, and BEL. Fingers crossed we hit good odds this year.

This past weekend I spent in Birmingham AL with members of USARK and Ball-pythons.net. We were proud to be able to host a table at Will and Angie's new show. It was both professional and well organized. They were kind enough to have dinner with us both Friday and Saturday night and show us some of the hot spots in town. Saturday setup was smooth and uneventful. We spent the day collecting signatures for the opposition to the amendment of the Lacy act, banning the interstate sale and transportation of the "Big 9". Loads of people were willing to sign and let congress know how they felt. To all those people thank you!!



Now you know W can't got to a show and not add new animals right? Two of the people at this show were also really good friends. Justin from Jkoyblka Reptiles and Louis from Cornerstone Reptiles. After looking over their stuff really good we made the decision that a male Spot Nose that Justin had and a female Lesser that Louis had just had to come home with us.


Got home Sunday and had loads to do. Clean snakes and water them, get new babies set up and get the display animals we took set back up. All in all we had a good time and look forward to doing it again soon.

So this coming weekend I will be helping out at the WARS show at Birmingham, AL. going to helping at the USARK table. Please come by and see me. Going to have some of the animals on display there too..Stop by and say hi..

Wow it is really only Monday, Blah! ah yes the thing's that make you got Hmmm.. Not much went on got some girls that are developing nicely and hope to see some good eggs out of them. I need some hold back spiders I'd rather have a hold back Bee male to double up my spider. We got the Lemon Blast to back up the Pin (who isn't doing a thing) So why not a Bee to back up the Spider ??

Super pastels are growing nicely.. very nicely in fact. I can't wait to see what they look like at 800+ grams.. the female just glows..I mean glows..

Ok time for bed early day tomorrow..