Chris's website dedicated to his personal captive breeding successes, Morelia, Python & Antresia.
Due to our move the focus on breeding this year had been kept to a minimum but we are happy to announce the following success
These were not part of our breeding program but from a group we have for sale in store. Although small the female managed to multi-clutch and in total had 8 large eggs the hatchlings have cracking colours and are super feeders.
Just some normal’s but for the first time we used “hatch rite” as a incubation medium the eggs took longer to hatch but all of the hatchlings were above average in size. We really recommend you give it ago we wont be using anything else for our beardys. We are in the process of trialling “hatch rite” with other species
We put our awesome male Jag to a old normal Coastal she produced a small clutch of 11 eggs 1 died early on. Unfortunately as breeding sometimes goes only half of the clutch managed to hatch the other half going full term but dying in the egg we put this down to increased humidity build up during the final stages of incubation, another sore point being that the Jags where in the half that failed to hatch but we still managed to get 5 perfect siblings we have retired the female and have a stunning Red Hypo female sibling lined up for next time.
We received a nice clutch of 7 eggs all hatched after 60 days we have managed to get all of them going on pinkie mice from the start.
This was the best success of the year having never bred these two together we were first welcomed by a perfect clutch of 11 eggs after around 56 days the eggs began to pip and the hidden genes of this pair revelled out of 11 eggs we received 9 high contrast hatchlings with nice yellow colouration from the cape York influence but amazingly 2 granites also hatched one with very reduced patterning meaning that this pair are het granites and the 9 high contrast siblings are 66% het granites we are looking forward to seeing how these develop.
We now have 2 UK captive bred Green Tree Monitors. This is a real achievement for us here at Pilbara Reptiles, being only a handful of people who have successfully bred, nested and incubated Varanus prasinus in the UK. The eggs took a total of 179 days to incubate the first hatchling appeared just after we had finished our xmas dinner and the second on boxing day they have been set up in small vivarium’s identical to the adults with cork tubes for hiding although they are already proving to be very outgoing. For us this is the best Christmas present we could have asked for, the babies are real stunners
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