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I had some good luck and bad this year
I lost a couple of eggs but had a few nice looking babies hatch.

the forum is kind of slow tonight and I haven't really posted in a while so I figured I'd ask how everyones season went.

... so how did it go? lol

heres a pic of my big stud male who thinks he's the shiznit, what an attitude for such a little creature lol

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The forum is kind of slow tonight, and it's been kind of slow for a couple days. I noticed there are less posts now. Well as for my season, well this was my first season breeding and i only got 4 eggs from my female and all have hatched! The last two eggs hatched dis morning at 1:00am.

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Just Another Herp Crazy Person

~Allan~
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1.2.2 Leopard Geckos - Lea, Cleo, Helios, 2 un-named and going to be sold
0.1.0 Bearded Dragon - Luna
1.0.0 Fire Skink - Blaze

np
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Lovin' would be easy if your colors were like my dreams...

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Just Another Herp Crazy Person

~Allan~
My Photos
1.2.2 Leopard Geckos - Lea, Cleo, Helios, 2 un-named and going to be sold
0.1.0 Bearded Dragon - Luna
1.0.0 Fire Skink - Blaze

I haven't been around much either, but I'm planning on posting more.

My season was mixed. I hatched out some killer hypo tangs - way above my expectations, so that was cool. My melanistic project was a non-starter - about 1 million normal babies born. LOL. My stripes JUST started to be gravid - so we'll have to see about that. But I had an incubator problem, and lost most of my eggs (over 50) - lots of BB hets - my mel/het albino stuff - tangs - mels. So that was a major bummer. But I'm only in it for the hobby - so live and learn, I guess.

Its good to hear from you!!
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Monte Meyer
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Mealworms . . . .you can't eat just one

Hobby or not Monte, 50 eggs is a lot to lose. Sorry to hear that, I lost 3 eggs this year and thats 3 too many. I hate throwing eggs out I hope you have no problems with your stripes when they start producing.
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. . . .because it was locked on a different setting. It sat at 97 degrees for about a week I estimated.

About 1 week before they were supposed to hatch, they would deflate and die. It was sad, but totally my fault.

I did hatch out some really nice tangerines - and now I have a few stripes going so it's ok.
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Monte Meyer
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Mealworms . . . .you can't eat just one

Thats alot of babies!!!!!!!!!! How many breeders do you have to get that many babies in a season? I don't even have a breeding pair yet, but i hope to and maybe have hatchlings next year.

Congrats on all the success and i'm sorry to hear about the huge loss!
Red

i think 1 million was a bit of an exageration, lol.
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your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself, "where is my mind"

if you have AIM, IM me at chichandoCONrosa (i changed my SN)

If every female laid say 10 eggs that would still mean he'd have to have a ton of breeders....... Are there any breeders out there that have a huge stock of leos (or any other herp for that matter) or do they have limited numbers while trying to develope specific traits/morphs? How diverse a population do most of the larger breeders have? When they are going for morhps etc, they do alot of breeding back to the parents right?

Red

i would guess that Ron Tremper probably has the most breeding leos, but thats simply a guess. i don't think anyone can produce 1 million leos in a year. i doubt that they can even produce that much in the wild. actually, maybe, thats mind boggler. Ron Tremper has developed most of the morphs, i think. Prehistoric Pets probably has a ton of breeders, and they've come out with blizzards, and blazing blizzards. i think it was a smaller breeder who got the first patternless, but not sure.
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your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself, "where is my mind"

if you have AIM, IM me at chichandoCONrosa (i changed my SN)

. . . but when you are shooting for melanistics - and everyone that comes out looks a real butt-ugly normal (normals are nice, but these were hideous. I had to tie a wax-worm around their neck just to get the hypo tangs to play with them) - it looks like about 1 million. LOL
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Monte Meyer
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Mealworms . . . .you can't eat just one

I didn't think Ron was all that big of a breeder when he first got albinos but he was obviously a much better businessman then whoever came out with patternless because I'm not even sure who that was.

I havent been posting that much recently either. I have just kinda been lurking. I sold all my leos except 2, had to because I was moving. So, i just got 2 normals left, they were my favorite. I'm not really sure if I will get back in to leos when I get settled or not, I was actually thinking about starting up with bp's in about a year or so when I can afford some pied(maybe something else) hets.
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Josh
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Mine is going well so far I have 11 eggs incubating still at least one is getting ready to lay again of which I have 4 eggs incubating from already and I hope she lays many more I got her from Rob Jenkins (Spot) is her name she was bred with a hypo tangerine before shipped. I have 3 double het. for Tremper patternless albino eggs incubating from a proven breeder group I got from crested gecko.com (Garrick) and I have 4 that were layed from normals I think some might have been laid by a high yellow coloration normal. I suppose 4 should be hatching very soon (2 hypo tangerine x normal and 2 normal). Also this is my first year breeding. Yall have a good day and thanks for reading my post.
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The Lord Jesus Christ blesses you,
Nick