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I recently received some fertilized button quail eggs free with my incubator, and hatched them out. They are now 8 weeks old and laying their own eggs. Button quail are the smallest quail, adults are maybe 4" in length. I haven't weighed one yet but they're pretty small and light. I'm...

Anyone here familiar with hatching leopard geckos? I've searched various care sheets and lg forums but have found differing info. To incubate for males, do you keep the temp around 88-90 for the entire incubation or just the first 2 weeks then drop it down to 83? My first egg just hatched at...

I don't know if this is chain-wide or just my local store, but I just picked up 2 Zoo-Med 500R thermostats for $4.98 each. I also got a small "Kritterz" brand heat mat (5"x5") for $3.00. I don't even really need any of it but at that price I couldn't pass them up. If there had been any more...

This Friday morning at Menards, from 6 am - 11 am they have an indoor/outdoor digital thermometer with probe and hygrometer on sale for $2.97. I plan on getting several as backups. It has a 6' probe wire and appears similar to the $12 Accurite model at WalMart. Looks like it shows 2 temps and...

I've been watching the ball python market sine March or so when I got a CB normal female BP. Lately at the local show I've noticed the prices have been dropping quite drastically on pastels, so I've just been keeping an eye out for a nice one. Today at the show I found a very nice NERD Lemon...

I've heard of this happening with mice but have never had it happen to any of my breeders. A week ago I retired my original African soft furred rat male and replaced him with one of his offspring, raised up within the colony. The old male was removed and everything seemed fine. Now today when...

I bought this 03 male early last year, described as a "Love Line" Okeetee. Is it normal for them to have almost no white and very muted blacks? My female Okeetee that I bought directly from Kathy Love doesn't look much like him either. (Oh and I cleaned the water immediately after taking...

Has anyone seen or produced hypo opals? At my local show a corn breeder there was showing me a hatchling he got from a clutch of mostly opals, lavenders and hypo lavenders. It was more white than an opal, he didn't know what it was. I thought it might be a hypo opal, looking at the others...

This is one of my African soft furred rat breeder females feeding a pile of over 20 pups at once. She's spread-eagled on top of the pile, I thought it was pretty amazing. Sorry it's so blurry, had to shoot through the worn acrylic tub.

I'm buying a herpstat for my new rack, an Animal Plastics Economy plastic rack. I am housing corn snakes in it so there is no need for a night drop. But the ND version comes with built in timer and night drop feature for only $26 more. Can the timer be used for anything else? Any reason I...

I've got 2 new corns coming tomorrow and I'm going to keep them temporarily in rubbermaid tubs until I get my rack in a month or so. One of the tubs already has 3/16" holes melted along the sides with a soldering iron. I'm wondering if an 06 hatchling can squeeze through a hole that size. I...

Well I took the plunge and ordered my first rack, since my snake collection is growing to large for all the glass tanks. After a lot of searching around for the best price, size and versatility I ended up ordering the Animal Plastics Economy Plastics rack. I plan on 4 1756 sweater box tubs...

My first corn is an 05 normal female from Moreptiles.com. She seems to have the standard "normal" patterning and coloring, but there are also stripes down her lengthof sort of dirty looking dark spots. She's had this since I got her and it's still there after every shed. Does anyone know...

One of the few corn snake breeders at the local reptile show (allanimalexpo.com) was selling one labeled as a "chocolate" corn. It was very brown, perhaps a caramel hatchling. The guy has a lot of corns but he doesn't seem to know the naming conventions very well, so he couldn't really tell...

I'm planning on making my own heat mats using 4" 8 watt per ft flexwatt. Some will be less than 1 foot in length. Now I don't really have any experience with flexwatt so I wasn't sure if this would work, as some dealers say it needs to be at least 12" in length. The 11" flexwatt is...