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Today I reached another milestone. However small...it was still a milestone. A female that I hatched out from a breeding I did 2 1/2 years ago, laid her first clutch of eggs. There were 5 in total and all perfect. It's kinda like coming full circle.

So I ask you...what have been some of your milestones. Your greatest accomplishments? Your proudest moments?

MJ
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Raising King cobras from hatchlings (3 days old), and breeding them 4 years later. Those 18-24" banded babies are beautiful popping out of the eggs.

Chad

Het pied x het pied in 2001 had 4 eggs. Produced 1.2 pieds and 1.0 66% het
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RicK @ BbI

Ball Boutique,Inc.
The home of the singing snakes!

Congrats!

Congratulations on the full circle experience. I know how fun that can be. I had a similar experience last year.

I bought my first female ball python (CH) in 1992. She laid 8 eggs in 1994. I kept back one of the males from that clutch. I bought a CBB ball python female in 1994 that I raised up and bred several times. I bred the son of the first female to this second girl and got a clutch of 10 eggs in 2000. One of her daughters from 2000 was a great eater and a pretty ringer too. She ate like a champ and bred to a pastel male in 2002. She laid her first clutch of 6 eggs on her third birthday in 2003. For some reason, this was more exciting to me than any other clutch I had previously hatched out. There is truly something rewarding about coming full circle and creating your own bloodlines that grow up and produce more beautiful snakes.

Thanks for sharing Marcus!
Hillary Webb

I also like the multi generational milestones and consider them a big deal. I still have a lone corn snake just because he was the fruit of years of work.

I enjoy watching traits get passed down generations like an odd head pattern that gets changed a little along the way but still stands out or even a bad trait like ill temperament. Last summer I got my first 2nd generation ball python clutches. I was excited before I saw that the only two surviving eggs in the first clutch contained albinos (from 66% het X 50% het) but unfortunately they weren’t quite right and didn't make it. A 2nd clutch from a sister produced a normal looking girl who is now well on her way to producing yet another generation. At one time I even owned her great grandmother (wish I had kept her for a 4 generation picture or perhaps 5 generations next year).

My daughters........intelligent (both A honor roll students), respectful and courteous (always sir and mam when addressed by an adult), obedient and well-behaved (they know what and what not to do and can and can not do).......over-all great kids!

They should teach me..........

Thanks for sharing......that's generational success

Jim
Python Passion Reptiles

Our daughters are DEFINITELY mine and my wife's GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS!!!!!!!.......nothing else can compare

I have 5 of my own.

You got to love it!

Jim
Python Passion Reptiles

Man, I thought 1 daughter was tuff. You are crazy & busy. LOL!

Chad

>>Today I reached another milestone. However small...it was still a milestone. A female that I hatched out from a breeding I did 2 1/2 years ago, laid her first clutch of eggs. There were 5 in total and all perfect. It's kinda like coming full circle.

I had a female I hatched more than four years ago lay a clutch of eggs last season that was the result of being bred by my albino male. Five hatched! I was pretty happy about that for her first breeding trial. But, that was not my milestone in herps...

>>So I ask you...what have been some of your milestones. Your greatest accomplishments? Your proudest moments?

When I came back from vending at Daytona 2002 I had the following baby (PIC) in a tortoise incubator. It was the result of breeding two CBB Pancakes I hatched back in the late 90's. Bottom line: I literally FLIPPED my lid! I could not have been happier since I was finally able to produce a 'true' F2 offspring from my CBB adults. Bottom line: I was able to go full cirle too and ensure that after my WC animals eventually passed on, I would have productive CBB animals. Since then, the dam of the first F2 production has produced more babies and hopefully ensured her place as a long term CBB breeder for my Pancake colony.

Matt

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"Change what you cannot accept... do not accept what you can't change!"

Tod Ashley C.$.C.

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Good result Matt!! I love Pancake tortoises! Nice to hear a good "full circle" story from such a dedicated person!!

Congrats...
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Sean Bradley
Owner : EbN
www.ExoticsByNature.com
www.BallPythonMorphs.com
www.CornSnakeMorphs.com

>>Good result Matt!! I love Pancake tortoises! Nice to hear a good "full circle" story from such a dedicated person!!

Thanks Sean! I'll actually have a few F2 babies from this same CBB mother in Daytona. She has become quite the producer. Hey, you gonna sell me some Ball morphs CHEAP this year? Hahaha...

Matt

Matt...

I look forward to seeing the little guys in Daytona as well as you and "my sister" HAHAHA

Cheap? CHEAP?!? This is a seller's market buddy... no such thing as a CHEAP Ball Python Morph! I'm probably keeping everything anyways...

Take it easy!!
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Sean Bradley
Owner : EbN
www.ExoticsByNature.com
www.BallPythonMorphs.com
www.CornSnakeMorphs.com