I love your questions!

Alrighty!

This makes my life easier by answering comment questions, especially since I am in the midst of doing a few other things online, like always.

Let's begin with Rob:

"what do you use for hatch racks??"

Well, I have three different racks I use for hatchling racks.

The first and my favorite is the Boaphile Hatchling Racks, which apparently are not being manufactured much anymore. I have a few of these, and I use them for the newly hatched babies. They do very well in there, and the humidity and temps hold very well in these guys. Thumbs up!

The second and also very nice is the Jason's Jungle Hatchling Racks, which are a bit more basic in structure, but I really love them. 6 qt tubs, and good solid construction. Apparently, however, he is getting out of building racks, so the comparable rack I would suggest would be Animal Plastics, which makes excellent products. Thumbs up!

The third and albeit very nice, not my favorite, is the Vision Hatchling Racks. I have a hell of a time getting the humidity correct with these tubs, especially for the smaller animals. But, they look and work well for what they offer. And with 72 slots, I am happy in terms of the space it offers. Thumb up! (Yes, one... Not both)

So there is one question answered.


And on to the next one.

Chris R. is asking about breeding plans and what one should have:

"how about a blog regarding owning males vs females of certain morphs, hets, etc. Which morphs do you specifically want females for or males and so on."

Well, let's touch on this briefly, and I will go into it in a bit more detail another day.

In the perfect world, with lots of money to spend on snakes, what do I suggest you do?

Get whatever you want and breed it.

If that is not the case, which I know isn't the case for me, and for most of you all out there, what should you do if you have a limited amount of cash and a limited amount of space?

Well, let's do it two ways.

Recessives? Get Recessive females if you can, or 100% hets if you can't. Get a co-dom visual recessive, i.e. Pastel Genetic Stripe or Spider Pied. If you can't do that, get a visual male. Breed what you can when you can, and trade or sell up for what you want to achieve in the end.

You want to make Super Pastel Genetic Stripe Ghosts?

Well, if you can get visuals of everything, that would be awesome. That way you are cutting down on the time that it would require to breed your animals to get to the top of that mountain of your goals. If you can't? Get some Visuals and Pastels. Breed in, get out your gals, and look for your power male while you have your females growing up.

For this project, in the perfect world, other than just buying the animal outright, I would start with a Pastel Genetic Stripe female het for Ghost, a Pastel Orange Ghost het for Genetic Stripe male. Or vice versa, which ever you can find it. 

If not, get a male POG, breed it to some Visual or Het Genetic Stripes, and hold the females back. Or get a male Pastel Genetic Stripe and breed it to some Ghost or Het Ghost females.

The project will take a while, but hey, it'll be worth it!


Co-doms. Get them! Get many females of base morphs if you want, but if you can, get some double or triple females to grow up. While growing them up, wait for a power male. A power male depends on what you can afford, be it double co-dom or quintuple co-dom, make it happen.

You want to make a Super Pewter?

In the perfect world, Sterling to Silver Bullet. Or Super Pewter to Super Pewter... Duh.
If you can't do that? Pewter to Pewter. Or, get a Sterling male or something else powerful (Silver Bullet) and breed it to a Pastel or Cinnamon female. Take those females that you hatch out and grow them up too. That way you can get your Super Pewters in a few years.

Now I will touch on what I do specifically another day, with examples of my own holdbacks.

I hope that has gotten you a bit interested and in anticipation.

MWAHAHAHAHAH!

It will be awesome, I promise.


Alright, off to do some homework. Have a fantastic day, my friends.

Weekend? What Weekend?

This weekend was spent fixing the snake room some more.

Let me tell you that owning racks that are open and subject to attacks by the food items that escape for a few hours does not allow for much sanity.

I finished revamping the Vision Racks that I have in the room with new heat cable, and everything is 100% hunky-dory now.

It took a lot of man (woman) power to move everything around, get behind things, pull cords off, replace them accordingly and so on.

And let me tell you... For some reason, rats enjoy chewing wires.

Specifically heat cable.

I had no idea... Maybe my cables were coated with sugar or something, but I replaced a good few of them due to chew marks as well as bends that broke thru the cord covers.

Granted, these racks have been in use over the years, and do not have easy access to the general view, but geeze...

I have wired them now so that these issues should not arise anymore, albeit part of the reason it even comes up is due to renegade rodents.

But, I find them eventually.. Or Kona does.

No worries.

So for you out there interested in Vision Rack Systems, know that they are easily manipulated by you and other sources.

Be aware!

Anyway, this weekend was cleaning and fixing weekend, with some other stuff thrown into the mix. We went up to visit some friends up north, as well as did some wedding stuff, so I am rather tired and not ready for the week to begin... But it must.

Later today I will finish cleaning, as well as hopefully do some feedings and photos in the near future.

So with that, I say, be aware! And have a fantastic day, my friends