#lokthaire

[crispyfishsticks]

Does the toothpaste colored lock still exist… Ceras I think their name was?

Yep. Both Shoon (Soloxis) and Ceras are still around.

[crispysnakes]

lokthaire What does peaky mean?

It refers to saddle shape. 

Bar saddles look like bars, they go across the back with minimal peaking. 

Peaky saddles have peaks in the middle of ‘em:

I prefer the peaky look myself.

[kaijutegu]

Can I ask, is it honey or bee pollen you have given kaiju? I’d like to do some scent experiments with my lacertid. :)

Both! She likes honey more tho.

[crispysnakes]

I hope this doesn’t come off as insensitive, but I know your snakes have had some serious illnesses in the past, how did you go about cleaning/decontaminating their enclosures? Or did you just end up tossing them… I had to put my lizard down due to possible adenovirus and I would hate to just toss his 4x2x2

Thanks

I've only dealt with arenavirus. The more research that comes out the more it seems like it's a pretty inescapable part of boas, so careful management is paramount.

After my first encounter with it I used F10SC multiple times, bleached, power washed, and left enclosures outside in the sun to desiccate for a year. I do similar now, just not for a year - a couple months works fine.

Enveloped viruses don't like to be outside the host, though, and I think adenovirus is non-enveloped so I'm not sure of its longevity. I would repeat bleach and desiccate just to be sure.

[crispysnakes]

lokthaire That’s fantastic to hear! Thank you for answering. I hope you’re able to obtain your breeding goals, it’s nice to see more responsible breeders in any hobby. Is your drinker project snake marked as such on your blog? I need to see what this one looks like!

You’re very welcome, I am doing my best! I haven’t marked that animal under that label specifically, but you’ve seen him before. It’s Coquito. He’s very difficult to photograph. He seems to lack almost all melanin, he’s much more washed out than a pastel, and looks more T+ then my T+. One of my fellow boa peeps suggested that he may be a true hypo (different from what the boa community has currently labeled as hypos). Or he has hidden hets... but neither parent was het for anything, so who knows.

Regardless of whether or not he turns out to be something special, he is an extremely interesting looking animal and I think he would do very well in the SS project, particularly if he passes on his cleanliness and light base tone.

This crazy tail.

Comparison of tails to his normal (abybesque) sibling at only a few months old.

[crispysnakes]

Not sure if this has been asked but if it has let me know and I’ll try and find it! But what are your goals with your breeding projects? what’s trying to be accomplished? I’m curious, no snark here! :3

My morph projects have shifted and are streamlining to focus mostly on super stripes. Almost nothing has been done with the gene so I intend on refining color and cleanliness (adding stellar pastel lines) in addition to out-crossing to other combos. They are very robust animals and I would like to keep them that way! I am keeping my couple junglebesque projects and my possible dinker project (the weird pastel aby, seeing if that is a new genetic thing or not).  

On the locality side, I am looking to maintain things much in the same way - selective breeding + genetic diversity. I love the look of the hypermel anery longis so that will be my focus there. I am trying to build my Bolivians around silver animals, I look for yellows in my North Brazils, etc. I want to produce nice boas that will help keep the interest for localities alive in the hobby - but I want to do that without genetic bottle-necking. 

[kaijutegu]

Not sure how into fruit Kaiju is, but I remember you saying she really digs honey, have you ever tried a ataulfo mango (sometimes called honey mango) with her? They’re DELICIOUS, buttery smooth, and have a slightly honey flavor to them! I like them a heck of a lot more then regular mango’s myself, smaller seed, not as fibrous, easier to eat. :)

YES THOSE ARE AMAZING we eat ‘em whenever we can get our hands on them.

[kaijutegu]

lokthaire replied to your video: Some extremely fun tegu facts! I didn’t even know...

Oh Clint’s reptiles! I usually avoid pet YouTube like the plague but this guy seems to be really knowledgeable and has correct information regarding the reptiles he speaks about!

Yeah, he seems... different than the rest of the pettubers. So much so that I have a hard time thinking about him AS a pettuber. Like, it feels more like watching a naturalist/herpetologist just talk about pets, rather than “this is my shitty bedroom full of shitty cages.” I love his “best pet lizard” series because he is really good at addressing the rewards AND challenges of keeping different species.