Pics from BHB Reptiles Tour

[Jimi_Reptile]

All right, I had the opportunity to conduct a tour of Brian's private breeding facility with a group of reptile forum goers along with a few local reptile fanatics. I took far too many photos, but I though I would add a few that I really liked.....

Brian had to let the kids get up close and personal with a albino dwarf retic. The kids loved it and Brian was happy to have them step up and want to learn through experience and hands on opportunities.
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Brian also showed off his big rock python as always she was very talkative
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I got to help wrestle this big girl back into her bin, amazing experience!
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Kel was amazing and showed us some spectacular Ball pythons

mimosa pied
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Carmel spider
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Pinstripe Pied (my favorite BP ever)
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Fire Pastel Yellow Belly (firefly YB)
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Ghost Pied
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Brian's wife lori also showed us many amazing colubrids, but I thought I'd throw out the three amazing ones that I really liked alot ( I would add scaleless rat snakes and scaleless corns but none of those pictured turned out very well)

Snow Hognose
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Rhino Rat (always a favorite on SnakeBytes TV)
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I like the view of the racks in this picture also, there was a grand total of ten rows in the Colubrid room alone, very impressive
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Chinese Cave Ratsnake (very odd, very rare, and very angry as you can tell)
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and last but certainly not least, Lori's tortoise, "lil Hen" named after Brian, seems how his middle name is "Henry".
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I brought home a new addition to my breeding stock, a female 2010 Woma Ball python I am contemplating over names, Noelle or Cookie?
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Thanks for checking it out! tell me how I did with the pictures, new camera, setting, and color balance.

[AaronP]

I wish I lived closer so I could go on one of those tours!

[bkelley02]

Looked like a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing some pictures!!

[joepythons]

Looks like a fun time.Thanks for sharing

[gizzerd]

That is awesome! I would love to tour their facility sometime! I am from MI too...would love to know if you are ever going to go again!

[joe23]

i dont think its a mimosa pied. has he said that?

champagnes tend to be ringers. i think its a mimosa ringer.

why i think that? cause it looks nothing like the champagne pied!

heres a champagne pied






and i dont think that the ghost influence would turn that over this hard

[Jimi_Reptile]

thank you to everyone that commented, and it always is a blast, Brian is a really nice guy. Last year there was 35 people, and he was still nice being swarmed by people that wanted to talk with him. Even through that he had time after everyone left to have a 45 minute conversation with me about what I need and how to "get the balls rolling" so to speak, on my own breeding stock. This time with a smaller group it was nice because there was more time for personal level chats with everyone.

Gizzerd, It's usually a annual thing, so next year, keep a lookout for the BHB tour post and shoot me a message, I hate to have people get left out.

And as for the mimosa ringer/pied whatever, I was honestly at a loss for what he said, I believe I was too busy drooling over myself and snapping pics that I didn't catch the morph, but I figured it was along the lines of a champagne and pied so I guess I wasn't that far off.

Once again thanks to everyone that commented and I love getting feedback!

[sho220]

That's got to be a toupee...

[ice#1]

what part of MI is ther shop located i go upto kalamazoo a few times a year and would love to take a tour next time i'm up that away

[Jimi_Reptile]

what part of MI is ther shop located i go upto kalamazoo a few times a year and would love to take a tour next time i'm up that away

It's a once in a blue moon deal, We will probably go again next year in about 9 months in April. Next time I will be sure to give everyone a bigger heads up than this time, but this time there were schedule problems and we had to reschedule. Keep an eye out for a tour info post in all the BP forums!