Oh me oh my! Geckos!

Well, Brent and I are officially into the herp adventure now! We have a nice little collection, and got our FIRST leopard gecko eggs this week! It was like Christmas when I found them! They very quickly were warm and snug in our incubator. This clutch came from our gecko named Leia.

We also added 5 baby crested geckos to our collection, from my friend, Dagan. She was looking to re-home them and gave us a great deal! They are all so cute and little! They are adjusting nicely to their new homes, too! Dagan also told me about a great website where I can keep up with all of our animals now. The best part is, it's free! I can put photos on there, and all the information I want for record keeping! It's awesome. Brent and I love having everything in one place to look at. We keep written records as well, but this site allows me to put feeding, shedding, and all kinds of info in that I usually don't take the time to write down. It is a lot easier to just put it in on iHerp. What even cooler, is that I can link our page on iHerp anytime I want so that people like you can see it if you'd like to see our collection! All of the animals we have are on there, so it's good place to see them! Here ya go: http://www.iherp.com/HerpAlicious

Brent and I also decided on a name for our "business"- HerpAlicious Reptiles. Herpalicious is our user name for some of the reptile forums we frequent.. I made it up, thought it was funny, and we decided it would make a good name. At some point we may have a website to sell our animals, but Brent and are just starting this venture! We are breeding Leopard Geckos this season, but we will breed Crested Geckos as well as Ball Pythons in the future.

We are so excited to be expecting baby geckos here in a couple of months. It could take up to 90 days for our first clutch of eggs to hatch since we are temping for females, which is a lower temp.. generally, the lower the incubation temperature, the longer it takes for them to hatch. I will be sure to post here when we do find hatchlings, though!

The pictures below are of our baby crested gecko, Harley, and our female gargoyle gecko, Mya. Those are the geckos that we got at the Dixie Reptile Show. The other photos are of the leopard geckos eggs!









As far as things non-herp related with us, things are well! Leeland is a busy as ever, and has finally started to sign for me on a regular basis! Right now all he is doing is "more", though. He had been sick with a not-so-fun diarrhea virus, but he is all better now! He amazes me every day with the new things he is doing and learning. He's doing more animal noises, and it's so cute! I really should try to video it sometime! I feel so blessed to have such an amazing son! He is such a happy kid.. we giggle and crack each other up most of the day. God definitely answered all my prayers with Leeland.

Brent is still looking for another job. He's had a few jobs that he's been able to apply for at ORNL, but he has not heard anything back yet. Bruce said yesterday that the person that needs to look over Brent's resume for the last one that he applied for is in France right now. We are so hoping and praying that Brent gets the opportunity to interview for that position! We would love it if you prayed for that as well.. especially for Brent to get a new job that can support us, and that he is very happy with!

We found another reptile show to check out next weekend in Corbin, KY, which is right under 2 hours away from us. Our friend, Dagan is coming with us and we all are very excited. It should be bigger than the one we just went to, and lots of fun!

For those of you reading this that we don't see often, we love you guys and miss you! To everyone else, thanks for reading!