Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from our snakes to yours.

Female Snow Paradox

We are so excited to show you a new addition to Braxton's Paradox Kenyan Sand Boa collection.   Braxton has been doing all sorts of jobs to raise his money for her.  He came home yesterday and by coincedence got his report card and was on the A honor roll. As he told us this, we were unpacking the package and pulled her out. He was SO EXCITED and just kept hugging and thanking us.  We have been emphasising this week that going the extra mile and exceeding expectations are important in life. Hard work does pay off!  Check her out! Jennifer Huntley

Braxton received a pair of Snow Paradoxes and an Albino het Paradox from Steve Perry last year and are planning on using his male Snow Paradox to breed this girl this spring. He's not quite ready to breed yet but we hope to put some weight on him over the winter and hope he'll be ready.

Here are the Albino & Snow Paradox (Male)  together.

Treat 2

Here are a pair of Sunset Indian Sand Boas we got from Scott Miller.  They are not only beautiful but so gentle.  We have really enjoyed adding these to our sand boa collection.

2010 Female Extreme Red het Albino Hognoses we got from Extreme Hogs.  This little girl has a beautiful bluish-green stripe but I did not capture it...I will try and do better.

This little gal just did not want to cooperate for her picture tonight...we are all like that at times!

Here is an image  of an Extreme Red Albino (courtesy of Extreme Hogs).  We plan to someday to produce these stunning reptiles.

Our new Tri-Colored Hognose Pair we got from Steve and Jenea Woods from Guardian Reptiles.  We are adjusting to the speed of these guys.  They are the fastest thing we have in our collection.  
The female is preteneding to play dead....she is a pistol...all or nothing.

The male has a much calmer disposition.

Treat One

We thought we would share with you a special treat...some of our favorites:
Here is our Female High Orange Tiger.  She bred to a 100% Rufescen and had a litter in August of Stripes 75% Rufescens (see below)

Here is the daddy: 100% Male Rufescen named Reese

Here is an image of their litter just born:

Dixie Reptile Show This Weekend!!!

It sure is nice to be home! The Dixie Reptile Show in Birmingham Alabama is this weekend Saturday October 30th. We will be there with a bunch of nice sand boas, some African Spurred Sulcata Tortoises and anything we can catch between now and Saturday (lol...I'm kidding).

I have come to a realization....I can not keep all the hold backs I'm holding back....I realize this everytime I purchase a breeder sized snake and realize I don't have room for the holdbacks to move up to a 15 quart.

I will be bringing some adult males, mostly anery's and normals het for anery and some sub-adult/adult normals het for anery and anery females to this show. We brought the same number of adult and sub-adults to the Culman Alabama show last weekend and sold all of them. If you are looking for an adult or subadult normal het for anery or an anery and you won't be able to make the show you need to email me ASAP.

Those three male high white anery's pictured below on the blog will also be at the show. Alas, the normal 400 gram adult female and the albino with lavendar saddles have been sold.

You all know where to find me...Mark@LHAlegal.com

Requested Images of Snakes for Sale

2010 High White Anery Males

2010 Albino Female Eating Live (Lavendar Saddles)

2010 Albino Female Eating Live

2010 Stripe Het Anery Female

2010 Male High Orange Stripe eating Live

For further questions and pricing email Mark@LHAlegal.com

We will Be at the Culman Alabama Show This Weekend!!!!

We will be at the Southern Exotic Reptile Expo this weekend on Saturday and Sunday (October 23rd and 24th) which is being held at the Culman Civic Center in Culman Alabama.

We have a few adult females and males we will be selling and a couple sub adults, too. In addition we will have the new Sulcata Tortoises and some Fancy Female Adult Mice to sell.

Come by and say hello between 10 am and 4 pm Saturday and Sunday. There will also be a Venomous snake display by Terry Heuring who is the promoter of the Dixie Reptile Show which will be on Saturday October 30th, the following weekend, we'll be there too!

Mark@LHALegal.com

INCREDIBLE MUTATION?

(Picture Courtesy of Travis Rose)

I have a great friend named Travis Rose who had a litter of normals het albino in February of this year.
While most of the litter appeared normal there was one sand boa that peaked his interest because instead of having 'Black' saddles it had 'Red' saddles as you can see in the picture.

He has been feeding it religiously and hopes to breed it late spring or early summer to every sand boa he owns. We are hoping it is a genetic mutation that is a recessive trait. If so, by breeding it back to its mother it may produce more like him. Can you imagine how many new morphs would come from a Kenyan Sand Boa with red saddles instead of black saddles? For one, you could have Rose Stripes, then who knows what an albino would look like. Possibly very similiar to the above picture but lacking the black scales you can see within the rose colored saddles. What about instead of a black and white anery we could get a red and white anery? We have seen in snows a variation in saddle color from cream to yellow snows, basically their saddles turn from the standard cream seen on a snow to a yellow color, what color would the saddles be if the original color was red instead of black?

It's snakes like this that get me excited.

So what is next for the Rose Kenyan Sand Boa? Most likely, it will be bred next year and if all of the litters come out looking like normals, he will hold back some females from each litter and grow them up and then breed Rose back to them and if it is a true recessive trait, we should see litters of Rose's in about 3 years....now, it is possibly we see litters of Rose's next year if the Mother is carrying the recessive trait. In either case, Travis held back some sisters of Rose and they should be ready to breed in about two years.

Travis frequents the Kingsnake.com forums and will occassionally update everyone on Rose's progress.

Some other new morphs that should be hitting the market shortly are the Hypo Stripe (Scott Miller....and possibly something else he keeps hinting about) and the splashes which on the snows appear partially pied. The splash appears like a disappearing pattern on albinos and anerys. I also have seen a 'Paint' project by Jeff Holloway that looks really cool with a Calico (yes like the cat) Kenyan Sand Boa as the center of that project.

Sulcata Tortoise Images

Here are two of our favorite Sulcata Tortoises. The one on the left is a yearling and on the right an eight week juvenille. With this above shot you and see the size difference of the two.

Adult Kenyan Sand Boas

We wanted to share with you some new adult Kenyan Sand Boas we just got. We plan to use them in our breeding program.
Isn't she a beauty....2008 Female Albino (Eryx Colubrinus)

Here is a great example of a nice Adult Male Stripe Kenyan Sand Boa (Eryx Colubrinus)

Male (Eryx Colubrinus) Possible "Ghost" Hypo Anery

2007 Normal Female 100% het Anery (Eryx Colubrinus)
This normal was bred to an Anery and she had a litter 9 days ago that produced half normals and half anery's.  I will picture her litter soon.  They are all currently in their first shed.

Here is a great example of a "Flame" Kenyan Sand Boa.  This female not only has a bright orange but due to the dodoma blood in her the orange should remain clean and not 'fleck out' as she continue to age.

African Spurred Tortoise - Sulcata's!

We are loving our African Spurred Tortoise's......

I have received a few emails from folks that are coming to Saturday's Dixie Reptile Show http://www.dixiereptileshow.com/ and they wanted to know what the care is for a Sulcata Tortoise. Basically, the setup is the same for a Bearded Dragon.

I'm using newspaper but you can also use reptile carpet or even rabbit food to obsorb the mess.

We have put some hay in the tank to nibble on and to lay on.

We feed dehydrated grasses in pellet form mixed up with salads and weeds every other day.

Provide UVB lighting during the day and a heat lamp on one end of the cage.

That's it.

Here's a picture of our setup....

It really is that simple...Mark@LHALegal.com

Rack'em Up!

I get asked a lot how much room do our Sand Boas take up. The answer is, not much.....we use Reptile Basic racks that we get from Frank Patinella of http://www.coldblooded-novelties.com/ . What I like about Rich of Reptile Basics and Frank of Cold Blooded Novelties is the amazing length of time they have been in this industry and how they genuinely are interested in what you are trying to do and will work with you to build/create a combination of items to achieve your visioin. It doesn't matter what your budget is or what your latest reptile/amphibian project is, these guys can not only tell you how to get it done but enjoy the inherent challenges and limitations we each face.

This is a picture of some of my frozen eating sand boas for sale, many are pictures on the website right now.

There are 24 snakes shown in that one picture and they are kept in a space that is 14 L X 15 T X 14 Deep which is basically like keeping 24 snakes in the same amount of space a small microwave, like the ones in hotel rooms, would take up. The baby racks that Reptile Basics sells hold 68 individual tubs like you see in the picture. We also have some of their larger racks which work real well for sub-adults and breeders. If you think you'd like to have more snakes but your area just isn't big enough, you should consider purchasing a rack, the racks also make feeding very easy and are super easy to clean.

Mark@LHAlegal.com

Meet a Sulcata Tortoise

Sulcota Tortoise
This little tortoise is a juvenille our two year old daughter is holding.  Just like the Kenyan Sand Boas tortoises make excellent pets as well.  We do encourage good handwashing after holding the snakes or tortoises.

All the kids took this yearling Sulcata Tortoise out for a stroll in the warm Autumn evening sun. 

Along the way it found an acorn an became quiet curious! 

We love introducing new pets not only to our children, friends, the community,  and our blog followers.  Please come back and we will share more information on cute guys!

Rough Scales For Sale

Male Rough Scale eating Live Pinkies $65

Not pictured due to being in shed: A female eating frozen/thawed pinkies and we do have a male eating frozen/thawed as well.
For questions please contact Mark@LHAlegal.com