woha he looks nice.. i liek the shape of his head!

Coily serpent ^^

Aw, He looks like a very sweet critter. :3 But then again, I say that about most animals. But, I have spent a while with a flirtatious lil' snakey that slithered all the way up to my crown and then back down to my cleavage. xD. 9-9 Anyway, Cuteness! Congrats to Eryx!

He's cute :-D Best of luck with the eggs.

Thank you! :)

Bwahh! I <3 snakes. I wish I could buy one >< I think there would be some conflicting between the snake and my cat, though :x

So long as you have a sturdy, escape-proof enclosure there shouldn't be any conflict between a cat and a snake. The newer cages manufactured specifically for snakes are pretty kitty-proof! I have a cat, two dogs, pair of foxes, and bunch of other animals along with the snakes and I've never had any issues with anyone. :)

Woah O-O That's a LOT of animals !! Hahah ^__^ I have a bad feeling I wont be allowed too >.>;
One day... ONE DAY !! :shakes fist:

It's definitely best to wait until you're settled somewhere - some cities/counties/states have ordinances against reptiles (though generally not ball pythons - but some places ban ALL pythons). Moving around with herps is hard, many landlords have a bias against them. :<

Yeah, I can see that >< :shakes fist at landlords: !

I was actually kind of interested in getting my Leilani a room mate. Though I'd rather first know where abouts you're living. XD;;; Cause sending it across the border might be too much a hassle, for both us and the poor snake. D: <///3

I'm in the US, are you in Canada? International shipping is possible, but requires CITES permits, which incur a fee and some wait time. The shipping isn't so much of an issue, but all the import/export stuff is a pain. It's usually only worth it if you are looking for a morph or group of animals.

Oh goodness that is a GORGEOUS spider morph, all the markings are just so fine and pristine, he's a real catch <3 Thats honestly one of the best patterns I've seen on a spider morph, and I work at a reptile zoo/specialty store so thats saying something xD

Thank you! I was holding off on getting one for a long time, but when I saw him I had to have him. He's the best I've ever seen too, though I admit I'm rather biased. :) I bred him with two high contrast females (one high gold and the other a blackback) so I'm really, really excited to see the results!

Oh man well you deffinately got some amazing resaults <3 Hah, I just have a normal Ball myself because I can't afford gorgeous morphs like this, but I managed to pick out my boy and he's just had such vibrent colour. Balls are seriously just wonderfull snake <3

I think many 'normal' ball pythons can give a lot of morphs a run for their money in terms of beauty. There's just such an incredible variety in them - pattern, color, everything. A lot of the morphs are coming down in price as they are being bred more and more - there's a sort of ripple effect on pricing depending on how new/in demand they are. A lot of hobbyists end up breeding, as well, to fund future projects. There's still SO many ball pythons being imported from Africa there's a huge need for captive breeders at all levels.

Oh man I know what you mean, I personally don't see the appeal in morphs like Yellow Bellies and such because if anything, assuming you can even tell the difference when looking at them, they dull down the utterly beautiful look of the normal patterns. And yeah, I've watched the literately undercutting battles that have began to wage as more and more people start their own breeding projects. Personally, I'm holding out for when piebald's come down, although thats probably going to be a looong time since I can't see myself dishing out even a thousand for a snake, although I seriously can only dream of some day attaining a black eyed leucistic.

I agree about the yellow bellies - there's a few morphs I really just don't care for. I don't like the Ivory that they produce. Piebalds are my absolute favorite - I have a pair of het pieds and I am keeping my fingers crossed that the female is gravid - I really can't tell with her if she is or not yet. I will cry happy tears when I see a pied taking its first breath, that's for sure! I think they will hold their value for a long time just because they are so incredibly popular and all the combinations they can make (along with being recessive), but in time they will be bred in large enough numbers to come into the $300-500 range I'm sure.
If you really, really wanted a black-eyed leucy, the fire (het black-eye) pairs should be around $1500 this year. Or you could get a male fire for a fraction of that and give it some time, breed, wait, etc. I had to do that with a lot of the morphs I have, and am just starting to come to fruition with a few of my projects. :) But even the black-eyes will come down. I remember just a few years ago they were 100k and now they're down around $5k.

Spider morphs are just gorgeous. How much you get him for? Out of curiousity

As a baby he was $1200.

Yeah...that's what I thought. Beautiful though. I love all the different morphs for snakes. Some are just dazzling.
Well, what a wonderful boy. You planning on breeding him?

Yes, he should be a father very soon - he was bred to three of my nicest females this winter and they all look close to dropping eggs. :)

Oh, how exciting! ^^
Group of spider morphs? Or varying ones to test out what comes out?
I'd love to breed something, but I haven't since I was like 12. I had a pair of lovebirds that were wonderful at giving me plenty of babies to raise up ^^ Was so much fun.
Given, snakes are a bit different than baby birds. But that sounds so cool. Post pictures please ^^

I would like to get some female spiders so I can raise them up and combine them with other morphs. If you google 'killer bee ball python' or 'honey bee', you can see a few of these really neat combos. :) And well, I just love the spiders - I think they have such a neat and unique pattern!
Lovebirds are really cute. I bred cockatiels many years ago to get experience handfeeding baby birds. Since I stopped doing wildlife rehab I haven't had any little gaping beaks to feed, I miss that a lot. I've got a breeding pair of collared aracari's I've got my fingers crossed on but I don't know if they'll give me any eggs this year. Can't beat baby toucans for sheer ridiculous cuteness!

Sounds awesome! ^^

Yeah, I hand-fed a cockatiel too. We had him for a good while too, just recently died :C Miss my birdies. My aunt used to rescue ravens too, raise them up for release. That was fun when I was little too. ^^

Ah, well I wish you luck and look forward to seeing pictures of more of your animals ^^

Is there a species in particular you're looking for? I work mostly with boas and ball pythons, though I have a few colubrids as well. If you want to chat snakes just drop me a note or email me - foxfeather @ foxloft.com (minus the spaces). :)

What a beauty!

Such I cutie! I used to have a Borneo Blood named Kaa he was a bit nervous though, and Mere being deathly afriad of snakes I had to find him a new home. I hope for a good hatch, and plenty of pretty baby balls that find good homes soon.

Wow he is GORGEOUS. I love the markings and his colour just yum. Makes me look forward to when I can move to the states and get a snake.

Oh I LOVE the markings!! He's a gorgeous snake! I love snakes, but I wouldn't want one for a pet, I like fluffy cuddly things for pets
:P

Thank you! I'm very much into the fluffy cuddly critters too (I'm rather partial to birds) - but I still really love keeping reptiles. They aren't very cuddly, but they are fascinating to watch and hold. I love how they move, explore and interact with me - even if it's on a very basic level. :)

Well yes, I s'pose they are, I'd like to have a bird for a pet, I really like the conure parrots (I think that's what they're called) black heads, green bodies, red wings... I saw a couple in a pet store and I fell in love with them XD unfortunetly I can't afford to keep any :(
I also love cockatoos and macaws lol

I really love birds - we've got quite a flock here. Eventually I want to put up indoor/outdoor aviaries and specialize mostly in toucans. I've got a pair of aracaris and I've just totally fallen in love with them. I've also got both a cockatoo (moluccan) and a macaw (blue and gold) - we have very similar tastes!
Conures are such neat little birds - there is such a variety in that family. Nandays and patagonians are my favorites.
However much I like birds, snakes are infinitely easier to keep. :) I spend less time on my entire collection of snakes than I do on my few birds, by far.

Oh wow really? I always thought reptiles would be a little harder to keep because you have to be extra careful with their body temps, but well I s'pose birds are messier because of the feathers and the poo.

I think that would be neat to set up an aviary :D heehee Toucans, they are such funny birds :P I can't help but smile when I see one.

Reptiles are (in general, there are definitely some difficult species) really easy to keep if you have the proper setup for them. All of our thermostats are computerized/alarmed and they keep the temps rock steady and in the right range. As well as humidity. With that, these guys practically thrive on being left alone. They don't want attention - they just need constant clean water and cleaning - but their metabolisms are very slow, so eat once a week, poo less than that.
The birds, on the other hand are every day hours of work. They need attention, way more cleaning and specialized diets - they are really like little kids.

LOL wow I s'pose you are right! They say cats and dogs are like kids too LOL Dogs more so. Well I have a dog and two cats, but I do want a bird LOL. I think that reptiles are fascinating creatures but I guess I kinda like the more sociable critters XD

I wish I could keep all those animals like you do LOL. One thing I wanted to be was a zoologist, but I don't think it is easy to get work in that field so I am going to just go back to school for a BFA and maybe if I am good enough I could work with some of those zoologists who go around the world and study animals in their natural habitats and be the illustrator for them LOL.

That is a gorgeous little serpent!!!!! I really like his patterns.

BPs are my favorite snakes. :) My Delphi (normal color pattern but still pretty) has been a great ophidian friend. I hope you share hatchling pics...they are so cute!

Thank you!
I find the normal 'wild' type ball pythons to be some of the most beautiful that there are. It's amazing the range of difference there are in them. I have a few normal ball pythons that are just night and day in how different they are from one another. They really are wonderful snakes - I'll definitely be sharing hatchling pics as soon as I have them!

Yes...the wild patterns are just so *pretty*. When I picked Delphi I had a choice of a couple of dozen hatchlings, and he was the most yellow of the lot, with what I thought was the nicest pattern. I like him. And oh, my, hatchlings. Maybe it's just me, but I think baby BPs are cute like puppies and kittens are cute. It's gotta be the huge, shiny eyes. And the flicky little tongues. Awww.

I agree wholeheartedly! I think most baby snakes are adorable. Ball pythons have a so much less 'ferocious' look to them, with their dark eyes and kind of rounded heads - even a lot of people who are afraid of snakes get won over by ball pythons. :)

He is one of the most beautiful spiders I've ever seen. He is stunning.

Thank you!! I was searching for a long time before I found him and just had to have him. I've been very fussy about picking out the nicest stock for my breeding projects, and I'm really glad it shows through!

oh my gosh, he is so gorgeous. i love spider morphs.

Ugh i love bp morphs i'm still holding out for a reptile show to get a nice pastel. my friend got an amazing male for 75

Oh wow, that's a very beautiful snake!

Loving the little heart shaped marking on his upper left coil (in this pic) but maybe it's just me that's seeing it, lol. XD

But regardless, beautiful baby! :D

I see it too. ^^

º_º!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGK I LIKE THE SNAKES X3

Beautiful! Thanks for your photo. I've had two of my ball pythons for 30 years now, and they were adults when I got them. What surprises me most about them is that all four of them have distinctly different personalities.

Awesome! I have one girl who is 27 now, she is my oldest. I agree with you - it's amazing how different all of their personalities can be. People who don't work with reptiles tend to think of them as really stupid - they are basic and primal, but not stupid. :)

Emotions are created in the limbic system - which is often called the reptile brain for good reason. Reptiles have all the emotions that we have, but don't have higher brain levels to censor actions motivated by them. When I'm petting one of my snakes (which she enjoys) and I answer the phone, she will soon try to take the phone away from me so that I'll get back to petting. She also likes to play a game like hide and go seek. She will massage my neck until I fall asleep (wonderful massage!), then will crawl off and "hide". I say "hide" because she usually crawls about 6 feet, then "hides" with 6" to a foot of her tail hanging out. I can not believe that a snake doesn't know when it's tail isn't hidden - it would soon be found and eaten in the wild. She knows that I'll wake up, "find" her, and pet her some more. (She keeps her tail safely inside her hide box when sleeping.)

cool cant wait too see some baby pics !! ',..,'

What an amazing color morph! I've never seen that one before. I love the ball python that I handle at my zoo. Her name is Panya, Swahili for mouse. She is an awesome animal ambassador.

That is a beauteous snake! The patterns are amazing :)

gorgeous. my husband recently sold two of our pastels and our only spider and i am severly pissed at him for doing it; espescially since he didn't even get their full worth :/ but you've got a good looking spider!

What a handsome snake. I've never owned a snake but I've always loved their appearance, especially ball pythons.

Very nice.

I've just spent $11,000 or so on Royals for my breeding project but Spider just didn't fit in with my long-term plans. I went for pinstripe instead because it's required in some of the combination morphs I'm working towards.

Out of curiousity, have you had any trouble with 'Spider wobble'?

I noticed you also breed boas, what species/localities do you breed? I've been planning on setting up a breeding group of Kaloatoas in the next year or so but getting hold of genuine ones is pretty difficult over here. We seem to get mostly Kayuadi locality super-dwarfs.

In retrospect I didn't phrase that well. I'm looking at breeding dwarf pythons, obviously, not boas.

I own a few species of boas (and used to breed sand boas), though I've thinned out my boa collection over the last year or so to make way for more pythons and ratsnakes.

Hi there! It's nice to meet another breeder around here. :) I've never had any problem with spiders, though I know people who have. They do seem to have slightly different personalities than other BPs as well.
I've got both super dwarf and dwarf retics - I recently added a dwarf tiger het genetic stripe to the group. I adore retics but am not interested in the huge sizes, so I was delighted when they finally came down in price enough to not cost more than a new car. :) I've got a lavendar albino female and a male albino as well. It will be another year or two before I have any babies, though. I highly recommend them!
Dwarf boas are really my passion - I have some different locales, including Pearl Island boas. http://foxloft.com/exotics/ballpythons has some pictures of a few of them. I also keep ringed pythons and asian rats - I've got elaphe coxi, mandarin rats, etc. :) Sounds like we've got quite similar tastes!

Most of our breeding to date has been small scale 'practice runs' to get everything right before investing heavily in more valuable animals. We've spent the last few years putting together a nice cornsnake breeding group and raising them all on to breeding age. I'm not a fan of raising snakes fast and breeding them young to turn a fast profit. I'm more in it for the enjoyment so some of our snakes are a year older than most before they breed.

Like I said, we've got a lot of corns all racked up. We bred some this year (and have hatched what might be a glacier stripe, we're not sure yet) but will be doing much larger scale breeding with them next season. My shipment of Royals from the US will arrive in a little over a week and that'll include pastel, pinstripe, ghost, albino, lesser platinum, butter, mojave, fire and pied animals if I'm remembering correctly off the top of my head. Mostly in pairs, although I'm only getting a male pied and a het pair. As you can probably guess, I'm planning to breed some nice leucistic lines in a few years time. The prices a couple of years ago were definitely in the new car range but now they're falling to a more reasonable level and I think a clean blue eyed leucistic is just stunning. Unfortunately, a lot of the normal royals I bought as female for breeding have since turned out to be male so I'm a little short on breeding stock.

As for retics, we have exactly the same reasoning. Ssthisto (my partner in obsession) loves retics and I'm partial to them but we just don't have the space and facilities to deal with snakes that grow that big so we've been looking at the dwarf and super-dwarf varieties for about a year now. It's just a bugger finding genuine kaloatoas that have that lovely pewter/silver background colour.

We also have a variety of other ratsnakes and a couple of kings. Some leos, fat tail geckos, the tegus, nile monitor, crested gecko, legless lizards, etc, etc. I usually have to write them out to remember everyone. *chuckle* I'm sure you have similar problems.

I really must say that I'm amazed after flipping through your galleries and such. Most people think I'm obsessed and have my own private zoo but your collection of critters is amazing. It makes my 65 reptiles (soon to leap to about 80) and assortment of rodents and roaches look pretty mundane.

It sounds like you're doing a great job and doing everything right! I picked up an extra job and basically worked overnights to invest into reptiles, I've been growing my group for the last six years and am just now starting to really get babies. I had some last year, but many more this year, and hopefully many more next! :) Especially with my boas I didn't want to push the females, I feed every 10 days and they just grow like they are meant to. I also hate it when people powerfeed to breed ASAP. :< All my permanent collection snakes have names and they are my babies. :)
I don't keep any insect eaters, but I do breed my own rodents, so it makes things relatively streamlined around here. That and not having human kids helps a lot, lol!
That's awesome about your shipment of Royals - what a great group! I would like to get more into them, but I'll mostly be doing it by trade, I think. So many people here are breeding them I wanted to work mostly with more uncommon species, but the color combinations are just... wow! And BPs themselves are just awesome. :)

beautifull snake^^

Guh, I'd love to be a breeder..I have corn snakes right now though, no pythons yet. >A> Is it easy to become a breeder?

Well, that's a bit hard to answer - in the technical sense all it takes is two snakes of the opposite sex and some time (depending on the species - some require much more effort/knowledge than just putting them together) - but you have to also be able to incubate the eggs, start babies on feeding, and find good homes for all of them. The last being one of the most important aspects. With more common species like corn snakes or ball pythons this can be very difficult, there is a lot of competition. It would be easy to end up with more snakes than you can handle.
Like anything else I think you just need to research it a lot and decide if it's right for your lifestyle and interests, and in the best interest of the animals! There are still a lot of ball pythons imported every year for the pet trade - captive breeding helps to make that less profitable and hopefully obsolete in the future.

So gorgeous!
Saving up for my own Spider... hope to have a nice little male by my birthday. :3