Ruddock Reptiles

Well, I hate to bring some bad news to the feed, but I had a pretty devastating weekend about a week and a half ago. I ended up being right about Angel, and she was pregnant when I imported her in December. Sad thing is, she gave birth to 14 stillborns and no live babies. I took it pretty hard, but it's just one of those facts of life and most likely she was cooled down and stressed out from the move and that's one of the main factors in why I lost the babies. On the brighter side of things, I candled the Corn Snake eggs this past week and we've got veins! So, I'm really excited about the eggs and I'm over half way there now on the waiting period and can't wait to see what hatches out. Keep checking the News Feed for further updates, and Chase should have galleries and Available Ball Pythons up by next week. Thanks for making it over to Ruddock Reptiles and Enjoy!

    ~Payton

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Great news everyone, all the Ball-Python babies are out of the eggs! Unfortunately, the last baby was deformed in the jar and I was forced to put it down. So the final count is 3 pastels and 2 normals and I couldn't be happier with the odds. No sexes yet because I'm waiting for all the babies to go through the first shed cycle. Check for updates soon in the Galleries and Available sections!

    ~Chase

So I just had one heck of a surprise last night. I left town for the weekend to go see my grandparents in Houston, and low and behold I return to a clutch of corn eggs! No real warning at all, but I scrambled and put something together and now I'm watching and hoping that at least a couple will hatch. They were somewhat dried out, so hopefully here in the next day or two they'll plump up and we'll have 13 good little corns hatching in about 9 weeks! The anticipation is killing me and I know Chase is already tired of waiting for his! This has been a great season so far and hopefully the good news just keeps right on coming!

On a few side notes - Our Galleries page is now up and running and new Galleries will be going up like wildfire here in the next week or two so keep checking them out and give us some feedback on what you think. We love to hear from the people who visit our site. We also have a Reptile Geeks page that is up and in progress so check us out on the Reptile Geeks site at www.reptilegeeks.com/ruddockreptiles. The page will contain a little more information about us, links to some of our friends in the herping world, some general picture galleries, and a blog that you can respond to and interact with us! Lots of great things happening here at Ruddock Reptiles so keep on visiting for the updates! Enjoy!

    ~Payton

Just wanted to get on here and let all of you know how the eggs are coming along. They're looking great as of right now! My homemade incubator is working great and the humidity is looking spot on. No mold growing and as of right now (knock on wood) it's looking like we've got all six eggs! Time will tell but I'm really excited right now and we'll hopefully have some little snakes here in a little over a month!

    ~Chase

Well...we're taking you for another turn in the road here at Ruddock Reptiles as I woke up to one heck of a surprise this morning. I know that in our previous update we stated that Big Bertha didn't take, but this morning when I checked her tank I found 6 beautiful eggs waiting for me!!! They're all looking fertile and they're in the incubator cookin away! As I'm sure you're all aware this could possibly be our first clutch ever here at Ruddock Reptiles and we're as stoked as ever! Stay tuned in here for future updates as I'll try to post them as often as I can. Pictures of the eggs will be up as soon as tomorrow so be sure to check out the gallery section in the next couple of days for our first update to that page!

    ~Chase

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