The Snake Keeper Blog

The wait is over………Yes we have proven the Extreme Hypo line will cross into the NERD line orange ghost line. They are hatching now. So one they are out and they shed we will take pictures. So for those waiting to get into the hypo mojaves wondering if the genes will cross you now know. BUT it seems from initial inspection that when the Extreme line is line bred you get a better looking animal.

Fire mojave cross with a fire and a mojave.

We will see after the snakes shed. We just produced some Extreme Hypo Mojaves and they are a knock out. I still say they are one of the best morphs out there. Nothing in your collection looks anything like one of these.

More Mojave news………The Super Hypo Mojaves hatched yesterday as well. So you are wondering a hypo white snake? Yes you can tell the difference and they look even better than the super Mojave. We will show you picture soon as they shed. But they are whiter.

The Super Mojave

So the Mojave is showing lots of cool stuff right now. Still a surprise to me that it even produced a white snake to begin with though. I never thought that was going to happen. Not to much time to write more right now. Have too much to do in the snake room. Later.

We had a great vacation last week. But coming home was great as well. It is always nice to come home. Well I may leave some of the surprises for later this week but for now lets talk about the new pages added to the site. I am sure you noticed how the front page looks a bit diferrent. While it is so hard to keep up with everything that is being hatched I thought it would be useful to have a ClutchKeepr page. This will let you know what has hatched out or what we are expecting. It will give you an idea of how the odds turn out in the clutches as well. While we are already about 65 clutches into the hatching season I am going to do my best to get it caught up form about clutch 30 or so. Some of these you will hear about before they make this page but I think you will enjoy the information. That is where this page is set apart from any others out there. Information, You all have heard me talk about how Colette records almost everything. Well she has been keeping data for years and we have a place to put it now. You will notice that on every clutch, we hope, you will see all the breeding details for that clutch. This is great information to have that we have given to some people from time to time for school papers and such. Now though we are publishing it for every to see and benefit from. Some people will probably spend hours looking it over and checking it out. So we hope you like it and find it useful. I should also thank the webmaster for taking the time to make it all come together.

Oh yeah, did you notice the boa on the home page as well? Yes it is ours. Thought it was time to change out the picture that was there of the hypo Mojave to something else. The webmaster thought the picture of the boa was cool so he put it there. I guess you would call that a “dinking” project as they have been come to be called. We will see but that picture is awesome.

The Pastel Piebald after shed picture.

While we were gone we had another friend collecting eggs and putting them in the incubator for us and also pulling out the hatching snakes. It was funny as in his words we had an explosion on Wednesday and there were snakes coming out in about 15 boxes. He could not even tell me what was what. It was real funny. We could not wait to get home to see what had hatched. It was like Christmas eve and we could not wait to see our presents the next day.

Another shot after the shed.

Tomorrow I should have some pics of some of the new hatchlings. I think you are going to like them. Well that’s all for now.

What a weekend it has been here………….You should see what is coming out of the eggs.

Super Mojaves

First the Pastel Caramel and now the Pastel Piebald. Are these cool or what! The Super mojaves are out now so we took a picture of them together. Talk about a purple looking snake their head is amazing.

The Pastel Piebald

Yes it is still in the egg but it is still nice to see. Do you see what this just did for the piebald project? WOW…………..a new birth all over again. Not many of these will be produced this year. I am sure some one else should do it but maybe only one or two others and that is about it. Just a real key snake to have right now. Let’s hope it is a male. Well we are hopping it is any ways.

Well let see another cool snake we hatched out.

Lavander Albino

Yes this is way cool. I was not a believer of these for many years. It was Colette that pushed for these for so long that I finally gave in to the pressure. Well thankfully I listen to her and we picked up some hets a few years ago and just last year we got a lavander male. Well it paid off big time! This is from our first clutch and it is a beauty. The crosses that will come from the line of albinos will be awesome. I really believe that this line of albinos will follow just like the other line of albinos. We will see everyting put into these and just as you can not produce enough albinos now for the demand the same will hold true for these. We have alot of life left in the business. I feel like we are just getting started. These’s even more but I need to get the pics done. We have a new page coming on line tonight I need to get finished as well.

There it is sitting there in the egg. Do you think we are a little happy? No we are mega happy. We missed the odds on the first clutch in fact we did not even get a caramel on the first clutch. Colette was getting worried that just maybe she had sold the only pastel het caramel male we had by accident.

The Pastel Caramel Albino!

So here we are cutting this clutch open and the first three eggs are possible hets. I think her heart sank, she said she was ready to loose her cookies. So any ways then we cut the next one and that was a pastel. She still was not feeling any better. Then the pastel caramel…….Whew! See the smile cross Colette face. She nows feels much better seeing the new morph. Well the rest does not matter but needless to say she is feeling good just to see it in there. We will have to see how it turns out. Well there is more big news but I have to have something for tomorrow. Oh Yeah, Colette you did awesome this season!!!!!!