The VPI Diary

03/25/08

by dave and tracy on 03/25/2008

Great week for ball python eggs! It seems that the female ball pythons can lay any time of year and we have had eggs throughout the winter and into spring. I am so excited about this year because we have a number of awesome projects going on!

03/20/08

by dave and tracy on 03/20/2008

Great litter, here are the pics of mom with babies (eating a rat so I can take them away!). We answered some questions! More info on litter in next entry but here are the pics!

1) mom is a straight ghost not dominant

2) widow peak pattern is a dominant and inheritable (wait until I post the pics of these babies!)

3) need to see the effect on the hypos-hypo pattern is a very dominant pattern-widows peak did not appear on hypos-but it may have "normalized" the hypo pattern a bit).

03/13/08

by dave and tracy on 03/12/2008

Here is one of my favorite babies from last year. There is something about this pattern!

03/11/08 evening

by dave and tracy on 03/11/2008

Female ghost prior to having babies: This female was bred to one of my favorite VPI caramel albino males &quot;Widow&#39;s peak&quot; Last year he passed on his widow&#39;s peaks and made some amazing babies. </div> </div> <div class=

03/10/08

by dave and tracy on 03/11/2008

Super Motley update photo taken 03/09/08: WOW!!! I love these super motleys!!Super Motley update photo taken 03/09/08: WOW!!! I love these super motleys!!Wow, can anything stop this freight train!! Thanks Larry and BT!!!

03/09/08

by dave and tracy on 03/09/2008

Talk about "IRONY". Keep people from maintaining species in captivity and at the same time the "light bulb" moment of having to bring amphibian species into captivity to save them from extinction. Watch National Geographic's video clip on Golden frogs in Panama. Great set-ups-modeled after work we were doing 20 years ago and begged zoos and officials to let us set-up: both Golden frogs and Golden toads (now presumably extinct)--but then they had no interest whatsoever in doing so.

03/06/08

by dave and tracy on 03/06/2008

Crazy busy!! That is great and I am looking forward to breaking warm weather and spring! We are just around the corner for hummingbirds (black chins), we feed hundreds of them from now until October. We put out 10 feeders and like clockwork they show up starting March 10th or so every year. We have been feeding lots of gorgeous cardinals this year (my day has to start with sitting and watch birds eat seed outside our kitchen windows. When that gets going there are often big flocks of wild turkeys that show up. It is awesome seeing up to 30 wild turkeys right out your kitchen window!

03/04/08

by dave and tracy on 03/04/2008

Wow what a week!!! Actually, what a last two weeks! So many things, I'm just going to go through them one by one.

02/29/08

by dave and tracy on 02/29/2008

A reminder that tonight is the Kingsnake chat:

Fri 10 PM ET: Panel Chat Boa & Python Regs - So click on the chat and it should be informative.

On Saturday night I will be on Reptile Radio:

UPCOMING SHOW: 3/1/2008 11:00 PM call in number: 347-215-8611

02/24/08

by dave and tracy on 02/24/2008

I beg your forgiveness for not putting our new "available 2008" list, as we are working diligently on a response to the "python and boa" "call for information" by the USFWS.

The now published "invasion" maps on the front page of USA today needs to have a response and we are working on it instead of finishing our list. We decided to not attend the NARBC show in Arlington, so we could devote the time to this important issue.

Syndicate content