** Have a happy and safe Hallowe’en. **

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Welcome to our first video production. We will create a string of videos this year, walking you through a typical breeding season. We like to mention that we have good success using the cooling method , while some people are successful at breeding ball pythons without cooling. We also continue to feed our breeder males and females until they refuse to eat.

Hope you enjoy!!! Stephan and Angelo.

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When we purchase stock, we do our homework and buy from reputable sources. Once we acquire the snake we will isolate the snake away from the main collection for a period of three months in a separate room. Isolating new arrivals allows us to monitor the snake’s health, and to make sure it is not carrying pesky mites. Research the web, and one can find many horror stories of entire collections getting wiped out fast from someone buying that new snake that showed no symptoms of health issues. Putting a new arrival in isolation is a smart practice for people who maintain larger collections.

We start our quarantine practice by building melamine mini racks that can be placed in another room in the house away from the main collection room. These mini racks can be placed out of the way, such as under tables, or desks, in any quiet room in the house. It is in the mini rack where the new arrival will start acclimating to its new home. We provided a few pictures of the construction of this rack for illustration; it houses three Rubbermaid 2220’s or six Rubbermaid 2221’s.

Wood is cut, pre-drilled and screwed together.

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Angelo, Stephan and families would like to wish everyone and their families a happy Thanksgiving holiday season. As breeding season is about to commence, we would like to wish all the best to everyone’s breeding endeavours.

Happy Thanksgiving

Hammy, was a Russian Dwarf Hamster that was my sons pet. Hammy was a special pet as we purchased him at my son’s first visit at a local Reptile Expo. Hammy always made us laugh hard, as he was an entertaining little bugger with all his antics. Hammy lived to the age of one and a half years. When we buried him, my son asked me to post Hammy’s picture on this website as a memory . So here we are… live on Hammy!