Fire Belly Newts

These little newts are so quiet and unassuming.  They have striking colors.

This is the year of the Gargoyle Gecko

I am going to exclusively breed my gargoyles this year.  I am deciding on pairing at this point.  My biggest issue is that I will struggle with selling the offspring.  I have sold newts in the past without the same kind of concern.  Now that newts are so hard to come by I am struggling.  I just want to make sure that anything I produce is going into good hands.  

I tried one gargoyle pairing last hear but got dud eggs.  This year I will be trying with multiple pairs.

Archibald- red striped male

Archibald, again

Ricky -reticulated male

Fleck- orange reticulated male- not up to breeding weight

Bleu- reticulated female

Leopard Geckos

My leopard geckos are my largest geckos currently.  Eventually, my leachianus will be the biggest.

Charlie and Elliott are so wonderfully inquisitive and calm.

101 grams of wonderful

he has the eclipse trait so his eyes are solid black

I love his white nose and face strip

97 grams of pow!

Charlie has regular eyes- I think I like them more than eclipse

Love his chunky heart shaped face

Jackson Chameleon- baby Alexander (yes- after Alexander Hamilton- yes- my daughter named him, also)

Baby Alexander- The boy finally started eating crickets.  I can honestly say that I never need to raise chameleon babies again.  

Newt babies are just as hard but I am comfortable with them.  Gecko babies are a breeze in comparison.  

Chameleon babies- hard work, little resources and no room for error.  I hope I am out of the woods but won't be confident until he is about 5x bigger.

he is big enough now that you can feel him gripping

love his baby horns

getting better at gripping and shedding

Your Fired! What being fired is all about.

When I first got into geckos I had to ask what being "fired up" meant.  It is a change in color that reflects a darker pigment.  It is in reaction to the environment. I have discovered they are more likely to fire up if you take them to dark moist to bright light.  I have had them fire up from simply taking them out of their enclosure.  They fire to differing degrees and can even partially fire.  Bellow is an example of Phin unfired and then firing.  He actually will fire much darker but you get the drift.

unfired

fired up