Natural Sunning and Observations

Sunday November 4th was a great day for natural sunning for our high temp lizards. In the container that we use to house our lizards during habitat cleaning and weekly weighting proved to be a good option to house them to get natural sun. Outside temps were in the mid 80s but inside the plastic tub was around 100F. The aquaflame collareds loved it. As you can see from the picture they are starting to lose their darker spots and gain more of the blue color. The male is on the rock and the female is sitting on the tub attempting to eat grass. They female as be gaining a lot of weight recently and is catching up with the male. Male currently is 12.4g while the female is 11.2g.

After the collareds were done. I moved them back into their tank and put all 4 of our steppe runners in to get some natural sun. Watching them you could see they did not like the exposure of being open. Next time we will provide more hiding places during these outings. Another surprising thing was they did not like the high temps. Care sheets say they like temps in the low 100s but while outside they kept their mouths open to let heat out. Ruled out stress because they were moving around the tub and eating crickets normally.  Picture to the right shows the male in the bottom center. Currently he weighs 10.7g. Next steppe runner is 6g.

Update on Aquaflame collared lizards:

 This is our male here to the left. He is starting to show more and more blue on his body. Also the orange is really starting to pop. Male is roughly about 8grams.

 Here is our female. As you can see she is smaller then the male. *About 1gram smaller in weight.

They are also becoming bonded to one another as well. Been noticing that they are starting to share the same hide when they sleep. Good signs!

Third baby red croc skink hatched

Our third baby croc skink hatched on Friday 9/28/2012. Took a couple of hours for him to break through the shell. He is now is a small critter keeper so that we can monitor how many mealworms he is eating. After his first night it appears that he ate one mealworm. Our other babies skinks didn't touch a mealworm for at least a couple of days after hatching. Usually babies are still finishing the yoke that they were using while in the egg. This baby came in weighing 2.1 grams. We will be monitoring weight to see how much they grow.

To give you an idea what the parents look like, the mother is to the right. She is about 6-7 inches long and roughly 40 grams.

Reptile Breeding Projects

This blog website is going to be used to share information on our current breeding projects. Currently we have two breeding pairs of red eye crocodile skinks, colony of Indonesian Tree boas, one pair of aquaflame collared lizards, and 4 steppe runner lizards. 

Their will be pages dedicated to each project giving information just as care and helpful information on how the breeding is coming along.