The single most anticipated clutch of my career and my life!

[angllady2]

This is hands down the single most anticipated clutch of ball pythons eggs I will ever have.

The backstory:

Back in the early '90's, the first piebald ball python was imported into the United States. It was featured on the cover of Reptile's magazine. At that time, I worked for Fancy Publications, the people who printed Reptile's.

I was completely captivated by the animal. I swore that one day, no matter what, I would have one of those beautiful creatures. Of course back then the price tag was in the neighborhood of 20K plus.

Fast forward to 2008. I started shopping around for a pied. They were no longer 20K, but they were still too expensive for me. So my darling hubby decides if I can't buy one outright, I can breed for one. So he contacts a breeder and orders a het pied pair for me. Nago the male, and Toki the female.

Toki did well for the first year, she ate very well and grew like a weed. Then she hit the "1000" gram wall. She went off feed for 8 months. In the meantime I started collecting other snakes, including another het pied female and eventually a low white pied male.

Slowly Toki came around, and little by little she gained weight again. This season she finally started breeding for me. Of course, I paired her to my visual pied in hopes of producing a visual pied of my own. There is something to be said for making your dream snake, even if you could buy it.

Tonight my dream has come true, and my beautiful Toki gave me 4 lovely eggs.





Here's hoping I get my 50/50 perfect pied!

Gale