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Thanks! He's finally growing proportional to his eye turrets. If you look at my avatar you can see the difference. These things hatch with the biggest gargoyle eyes I've ever seen!

Happy Monday peeps! Kinyongia matschiei

Here's some photos from today. I suspect the greener one to be female, the fired up one to be male, but still not sure. These are the two biggest ones.

Anything you pull out of the juicer basket is still better than gut loading with dog food, cat food, or even most dry pre-packaged gut loads. I just got a new Breville after my LaLanne broke. Mine has the duo disc so I can run pulpy food like banana through it to make Odwalla style drinks...

Congrats! Good luck with the eggs!

I think that's the species I will begin to primarily focus on. I've got a sizable colony so just let me know if you change your mind. Lots of babies due to hatch in the next few months.

Number one. They are both nice though. My favorite locale. I had one of the first Tamataves to come into the USA in the early 90's. He was a very consistent bright orange with minimal banding.

Thanks!:)

Thanks Laurie! They are just a bit smaller than K. tavetana, I know how much you like that species. I think they are prettier too. Those dorsal spikes really distinguish them apart from any other of the Kinyongia. I'm hold out hope that a few more will come in. I've always been short on females.

Thank you! I've already sold the K. multi clutch as a group, all except for this one. I've sold a few T. perreti, so far none of the K. mats because I still can't sex them. I haven't had to advertise, people find me somehow. ;)

Veileds were originally imported from Yemen. I worked with the first few groups that were imported to the USA. No need to import veileds to the USA anymore. WC veileds are now available originating from Florida. Some of those specimens are enormous rivaling the original imports from Yemen.

The other problem that I didn't address is "loss of vigor" within a colony that has not been interbred. A very touchy subject because it involves morality. In the wild, only the strongest genetics survive. In captivity we go to great lengths to keep them all alive. Some of those runts...

Here he is, the winner of the December 2014 photo contest, as well as the yearly contest. "Spiderbait" is really growing fast lately. He got his name when he escaped at a very young age and he was lost for a week. I searched high and low before giving up and declared him spider bait...

Here she is at two months. Pretty sure it's a female based on the coloration....woohoo!

Has nothing to do with how many generations, it has to do with the available gene pool diversity. After all, how many generations of veileds have been produced with the limited few WC that were originally brought in? Blanket statements like that come from certain breeders that start out...

Trioceros perreti, Kinyongia tavetana.

Thanks Nick. I've got a ton of babies and juveniles. Several bloodlines, easily sexable.

No, just less toxic than nightshade. I always assumed they would be in the same family, but they are not. I've tried to grow some in the garden with poor results.

Tomatoes and Potatoes are both in the nightshade family, but it appears that sweet potatoes are not.

That appears to be one of the worst cases of edema I've seen. That or morbid obesity, but I can't tell from just a head shot.