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Austin and I just pulled everyone out of cooling, and decided to take a few pics. The mearnsi are such nervous lizards, getting them to pose for a picture is tough. This is the best pic that I could get.

I love your chuck photo. The coloring of your beautiful chuck and the similar colored rock look great together.

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Nice granite Nick. But then again all your granites are nice!

Working only with the P thalassinus for the last 8 years, I've
never had the opportunity to work with their cousin sub
species (P mearnsi). I'm curious if you find them nervous
because you don't mess with them or if it's due to them
being wc and flighty from the start? If cb I would be some
what surprised that they are so nervous.

Ninety nine percent of my thalassinus are cb and mostly
produced by me. I have introduced new blood lines through
the years for better/newer DNA though. Most of my cb
are really calm and pretty easy to handle but once in a blue
moon I do find one of those Nervous Nelly's so to speak.

Here's a photo I just took of one of my P thalassinus females
and as you can see she's presently in full blossom mode.

A few years ago I produced my first melanistic thalassinus
to the baja blue rock world. I dubbed this color phase the
"baja black rock lizard" and just last year I produced an
entire melanistic clutch from this dark phase female shown.

I'd love to see a better photo of the mearnsi if you should
get the opportunity.

Thanks,
John

Thanks for the comments, everyone.
John, your Petros are beautiful! Our mearnsi are both wild caught, and this is likely the reason they are so flighty. They don't even like being looked at! Catching the wild ones can be extremely difficult. Austin and I lucked out and the only two we caught last year were a pair. I will try to get some better pics.

I like when they fire up. Man I really want a pair!

Hey Nick, the chuck looks awesome as always. I told Ryan to let you know, but I really want a couple granites from you this year. I should have some X. Taylorii and Egyptians if you wanted to trade, but I will call you and we can chat if you come to Reptilian.

Regards

Phil

Hi Phil. I will give you a call when I get back into town, in a few days. I'm sure I'll see you at Rep Haven.
Take Care.
Nick

Sounds good Nick. Also, I wanted to let you know that the two Chucks that Clint had, including the killer white female, are now in my possession. I will be posting pictures of them up here very soon. Talk with you soon!

phil

LOVE the lizard pics these are really nice! Goodlookin critters.
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PHEve / Eve

Where did you get your Petro? I use to keep p. thalassinus.

This is Tom from MI. You sent me some a few years back and I lost them in hibernation. How the heck are ya? Have not seen you around in a while.

Tom

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My Wife and I caught the pair in SoCal.
Nick