Saturday, October 27, 2007










Adult axanthic male with a red
female this winter.









Axanthic as an adult this year.









Juvenile axanthic 2005.









Photo comparing an axanthic(left)
to a normal hatchling(right).

Thursday, October 25, 2007










A second Axanthic hatchling
from the first clutch of black
headed pythons. As there
were 2 of these from 8 that
hatched I'm assuming both
parents are heterozygous for
this trait, which would give
one quarter of the clutch
lacking red and yellow pigment.









Tanami woma with 10 eggs.









Childrens female with recent
clutch of 21 fertile eggs.
Taking orders for hatchlings.

Monday, October 22, 2007










An Axanthic form hatchling,
a true black and white.









Sibling black headed pythons
that hatched last night from
Red line parents.









A Giant Cave gecko just hatched.









Childrens python with eggs
this morning, another big clutch.

Sunday, October 21, 2007










Sire of the hatchling below (on
the left) as a hatchling himself
three years ago.









Parents of the hatchling below.

Saturday, October 20, 2007










Firstborn today!!!
Also the first I've hatched from
my pinstriped adults, the
beginnings of the designer
morphs.

Friday, October 19, 2007










The latest SA Woma with her
freshly laid eggs.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007










Greenline black headed python259.
This is a red banded
female lacking dark colour on
the body. May be a hypo form
and has been mated to a very
similar male this year.









Black headed greenline female 259
basking upside down and due to
lay on the first of November.









Tanami woma female due to
lay in about a weeks time.









Childrens female preparing
to lay soon.

Monday, October 15, 2007













Shelves with baby black headed
pythons. Smaller tubs are 18 litres
and underbed storers are for
snakes up to yearling size.









Shelving units for hatchling
Aspidites.









Caging for adult black headed
pythons.

Saturday, October 13, 2007









Close up of my male childrens
python.









The female childrens is gravid
again this year and should lay
soon, last years clutch was 22 eggs.









Male childrens python from Qld.
Patternless form.

Thursday, October 11, 2007










Orange line pair breeding during
winter, expecting big things from
the hatchlings of this pair.









Todays clutch from the Orange
line black headeds.









Gravid Tanami woma basking
upside down all day today.









Gravid SA woma.









SA woma after laying eggs, the
first of the season.









Black headed female 259 basking
under the heat lamp. Due to lay in
the first week of November and
the last one to lay, also one of
my best coloured females with
red banding.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007










Tanami woma due to lay eggs
in a couple of weeks time.









Female black headed with 11 eggs.

Monday, October 8, 2007













Fridge used as an incubator
for black headed eggs.









Black headed python eggs in
Willow cake container for
artificial incubation.

Sunday, October 7, 2007









Caging in the snake room.
Under the bench with lights on are the
python cages, small cages hold childrens
pythons and Giant Cave geckos. Click
clacks on top hold baby childrens, tall
container holds a baby gecko next to
the wooden incubator box. On the wall over
the bench is a calendar, max-min thermometer
and wet-bulb humidity thermometer.









A nice surprise in the incubator this morning,
two baby Giant Cave geckos had hatched out.









These are large and aggressive geckos that live
on the escarpments of Kakadu and Arnhem Land
in the top end of the Northern Territory.

Friday, October 5, 2007









A yearling South Australian Woma
bred here last year.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007










WA female with seven freshly laid eggs.
This is the first time I've bred this form of
black headed python. They were bought three
years ago as captive bred hatchlings. If the eggs
hatch out some of the hatchlings may be for sale.









Gravid female black headed from the Pilbara region in WA.