12/31/09 - The US Association of Reptile Keepers has launched a letter writing campaign to stop Senate Bill S373 that would ban transport of nine species of snakes. Follow this link for instructions on how to write to your senators: http://www.kill-s373.com/

Happy holidays to everyone, and Happy New Year! We had a full house of guests at our house for Christmas with both my family and Deb's family visiting us from the east coast. Now that Christmas is over I am working on taking photos now for the next website update. I should have new geckos posted early next week.

12/21/09 - The Senate Bill that will ban nine python, boa, and anaconda species has passed out of comittee and will be going to the Senate floor for a full vote. Now is the time to call your senator to voice your concerns about this bill. The Humane Society is opposed to keeping of any exotic animals as pets, and is pushing this bill forward. As written this bill would prevent the interstate transport of any of the nine big snakes that are listed in the bill, and shipping these species across state lines would be a felony. If you keep a Boa constrictor as a pet, and move to a different state you could not take your pet with you! This bill is another step in their attempts to dismantle the reptile industry in the United States, and even if you don't keep any of these species you need to take action to preserve our hobby and industry as a whole. Preserve your rights to keep these species, for you, and future generations! Take a look at the video below and take action!

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12/20/09 - Our son Andrew is will be two weeks old tomorrow and is doing well. Deb is a zombie with the feedings every 2-3 hours around the clock, but Andrew is healthy and gaining weight well. We are looking forward to teaching Andrew all about animals and nature and sharing our passion with him. I'm sure many of you will see him crawling around at reptile shows in the future! Here are some photos of him and us.

12/7/09 - Our baby was born today at 1:00 PM Pacific Time! It was a very hard birth for Deb and it took her 35 hours to get him out. Just about everything that could have gone wrong medically did, but in the end it all worked out and he is healthy (and cute!). Mom and Baby (and Dad) are all fine. It was a boy, and his name is Andrew Jack Sykes. He is 6 pounds, 9 ounces, and 20 inches long. I have gotten about an hour sleep in the last 2 days, so I will post some photos when I am able.

I am behind on answering emails and calls, but I should be answer all of those tomorrow.

12/1/09 - Some scary stuff is going on in Congress right now. There is a bill in a Senate subcommittee now that as written would ban all species of pythons. Please check out the link below and take action! Please call, email, and fax all the members of the Senate subcommittee on Water and Wildlife. The Humane Society and other groups are working to dismantle the reptile industry and take away our rights to keep reptiles, and there have been a lot of threats coming our way recently. If we don't show that we care and have a voice now, Congress may think this is an easy one and ban all pythons. I currently don't keep any pythons, but if they were to ban pythons, who is to say they won't try ban all geckos next? These groups already tried to push a bill that would ban all non-native species in the US (HR 669). Banning pythons is a first step, and could lead to the banning of other types of animals in the future. Even gecko keepers need to fight for the right to keep pythons, or our geckos may be next! Please take some time to voice your concerns to this bill! The hearing is December 3, so call soon!

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11/21/09 - Seventy-four new geckos were posted on the available pages over the last few days. The new geckos include a bunch of knobtail geckos (levis, wheeleri, and amyae) RADAR, Bell Sunglows, Tremper Albino Sunglows, Diablo Blancos, Diablo Blanco hets, Blazing Blizzard, Blazing Blizzard het Diablo Blanco, RAPTORs het Blizzard, Enigmas, Snow Tremper Enigma, Super Snow Tremper Enigma, Giant RAPTORs, Red Stripe, Giant Albinos, Super Snows, Snows, Snow het Diablo Blanco, Novas, APTORs, RAPTORs, Bold Stripes, Bold Stripe Snows, Rainwater Patternless Albino, Enigma Het Rainwater Albino, and Snow Tremper Albinos.

I took photos of 14 new ones today, and will be working on taking more photos tomorrow. I hope to have the new geckos posted within a week.

It has been very busy around here. Many people know that Deb is pregnant, and the baby is due in one week (November 29)! Nine months have gone by very quickly. Deb is doing well and so far has had a very smooth pregnancy. Soon we will see the little one and welcome him home. I will post updates here when the baby is born. Deb has been keeping me busy with various projects around the house (fix this, clean this, etc.). Her "nesting" instinct is running strong now! I am just finishing painting in the baby's room. I never knew what a pain painting can be, but it has taken a week to get the room painted! I just have a little more touch up work to do and then clean up. That should be finished tomorrow.

I had a great time on Reptile Radio earlier this month. If you missed it here is the direct link to the show: Link I was discussing the 2009 season, plans for the 2010 season, morphs, care tips, etc.

10/25/09 - I will be on Reptile Radio this weekend discussing leopard geckos, knobtail geckos, and fat-tailed geckos. I will talk about our 2009 breeding season, and our plans for the 2010 season (including some really exciting projects!). The show will be live at 9 PM Pacific Time on Sunday November 1 (midnight Eastern Time). Here is the link to the Reptile Radio Website: Link Please call in and ask questions! You can also download the show on Monday November 2 and listen to it at your convenience.

I added a total of 103 new geckos to the available pages. The new ones include Nephrurus amyae, Nephrurus wheeleri, Enigmas, Tremper Albino Enigmas het RAPTOR, Novas, Bold Stripes, Bold Stripe Snows, Super Hypo Tangerines, Snow Blizzards, Super Snow Blizzards, Wild Caught Bloodline E. macularius macularius, RAPTORs, RAPTOR hets, Eclipses, RADAR hets, Tremper Sunglows (Urban Gecko bloodline), Diablo Blanco Het, RAPTORs het Diablo Blanco, Giant RAPTOR, Giant RAPTOR het, Super Snows, Mack Snows, Diablo Blancos, Snow Tremper Albino, Giant Snow Tremper Albino, Snow Tremper het RAPTOR, Snow Bell, Snow Rainwater Albino Enigma, Snow Rainwater Patternless Albino Enigma, Red Stripe Enigmas, Snow Tremper Enigmas, Blizzards, and a Bell Albino.

10/13/09 - I posted photos of 90 new geckos to the website. The new ones include Red Stripes, Diablo Blancos, Bell Enigmas, RAPTORs, Bell Albinos, a Super Snow Bell Albino, a Snow Bell, Blizzards, RAPTORs het Diablo Blanco, Super Hypo Tangerines, Snow RAPTORs, Wild Caught Bloodline Eublepharis macularius macularius, Super Snows, Enigma Snow Tremper, Bold Stripe Snows, Tremper Albinos, a Dreamsickle, Mack Snows, Snow Tremper Albinos, Snow Blizzards, and a Giant Snow Tremper Albino.

It took me longer to take these photos because I pulled a muscle in my back. It is amazing how one little pulled muscle quickly turns you into a feeble old man! Anyway, my back is much better now, and I am already working on taking photos for the next website update. We have lots of great 2009 hatched geckos growing up now that will be available soon. Let me know if you are looking for anything in particular and I will look for it while taking photos.

Check out this Super Hypo Tangerine that we hatched this year. Red Head!

9/17/09 - I am back from my trip to the Hamm, Germany Reptile Show and am working on catching up on email. I hope to get through all my email today. I had a great time in Germany! It was great seeing everyone again at the Hamm show. Thanks to everyone that purchased geckos from me in this shipment!

I will be away from tomorrow until Sunday, but plan to start taking photos for the next website update next week. We have a reptile show in Sacramento in the last week of September, but after that I will have a much more open schedule and will be working on taking photos of lots more available geckos.

8/24/09 - Today we returned home from the National Reptile Breeders Expo in Daytona Beach, Florida. It was a good show, and a fun time. Thanks to everyone who bought geckos from us! We sold at lot of geckos there, but I think we came home with the same number of geckos with the new ones that we purchased to start some new projects! :) We always like going to the Daytona show each year. Fortunately this time there were no hurricanes in Florida to cause us headaches, and all our flights and shipping of the geckos to and from Florida went smoothly.

I received a lot of email while I was away, and I will respond to all of it over the next days.

8/14/09 - I launched a new page today on our website that has testimonials from some of our customers. Here is the link: Click Here If you have a comment you would like to share about animals you have received from us in the past, please email it to us. Thanks to everyone for your continued support! This is has been an exciting year for some of our projects. We look forward to offering lots of top-of-the-line geckos for sale throughout the year.

We just had 8 good looking eggs laid by one of our Mexican Beaded Lizards. This is an especially colorful female, so I am really excited to see these babies. Unfortunately I'll have to wait until February for them to hatch! Good things take time...

I am working on taking photos for the next website update. So far I have taken photos of 35 new ones, and I will keep working over the next days before I post the update.

We are leaving for the Daytona Reptile Expo on Wednesday. We look forward to seeing everyone there!

8/7/09 - A total of 115 new geckos were added to the website in several updates posted this week. The new geckos include Hypo Nephrurus amyae, Nephrurus amyae, Dreamsickles, Rainwater Enigmas, Snow Rainwater Enigma, Rainwater Patternless Albino Enigma, Snow Enigma het Rainwater Albino, Snow Tremper Enigma, Tangerine Enigmas, Snow and Super Snow Enigmas, Bell Albino and Bell Sunglow Enigmas, Red Stripes, Diablo Blancos, Blazing Blizzards het Diablo Blanco, Albinos het Diablo Blanco, Giant RAPTORs and Giant RAPTOR hets, Giant Snow RAPTOR, Snow RAPTOR, Super Hypo Tangerines, Bold Stripes, Bold Stripe Snows, Giant Albinos, Blizzards, Nova, Super Snow Bell Albino, Bell Sunglows, Snow Tremper Albinos, Tremper Sunglows (Urban Gecko Bloodline and others), Mack Snows, Super Snow, RAPTORs, RAPTOR hets, APTORs, Snow Patternless Albinos, Tremper Albinos, Wild Caught Bloodline macularius, Bell Albinos possible het RADAR, Bell Albinos, and a Super Snow Blizzard.

I will be away for the next couple days at the San Jose Reptile show. I may have email access while I am away, but if not I will answer emails when I get back.

7/23/09 - Eighty-nine new geckos were posted over several updates I posted over the last few days. There are a lot of great geckos in this update! The new ones include Nephrurus amyae (males and females), Nephrurus wheeleri (males and females), Diablo Blancos, Diablo Blanco Hets, a Red Stripe, Giant and Super Giant Albinos, Giant and Super Giant RAPTORs, Giant and Super Giant Snow Tremper Albinos, a Super Giant Snow RAPTOR, Giant RAPTOR hets, Giants het for Diablo Blanco, Tremper Albino Sunglows (Urban Gecko Bloodline), Enigmas, Bell Albino Enigmas, Enigmas het Rainwater Albino, an Eclipse, Super Hypo Tangerines, RAPTORs, APTORs, RAPTOR hets, Super Snow Tremper Albinos, a Blazing Blizzard, Super Snow Bell Albinos, a Wild Caught Bloodline Female, Bell Albinos, Mack Snows, a Snow RAPTOR, and a Tremper Albino.

I have already started taking photos for the next website update, and will have those posted soon. Let me know if you are looking for something in particular so I can focus my picture taking on the morphs you are interested in.

7/8/09 - I posted 53 new geckos to the available pages. The new ones include Giant RAPTORs, a Giant Snow Tremper Albino, a Giant Albino, Bell Albino and Bell Sunglow Enigmas, Enigmas, Tremper Enigmas het RAPTOR, RAPTORs, Bold Stripe Snows, Enigma Snow Bells, a Super Snow Blizzard, Super Snow Tremper Albinos, Bell Sunglows, Snow Bells, a Bell Albino, Snow Enigmas, Blizzards, a Tremper Sunglow, and a Super Hypo Tangerine. More geckos will be posted soon.

Everything is going very well here. We have been busy as usual for this time of the year with lots of eggs being laid and lots of new hatchlings. Our leopard gecko projects are doing great. The first of Godzilla's babies hatched this week, and we have also hatched a couple more Blazing Bell Albinos. Those are two projects that we are especially excited about. And, if all goes well with certain projects we should have a couple new morphs to release later this year (sorry no hints!). :)

At this point it looks like we will have a great year with our knobtail gecko projects as well. So far we have hatched a bunch of Nephrurus levis and wheeleri, and our first two Nephrurus amyae of the year hatched today. Hopefully we will also have some Nephrurus deleani hatching later this year. At this point it looks this year will be our best for producing Nephrurus amyae. Our bloodline of amyae has proven to be very prolific!

We also hatched our first Western Hognose Snakes. Here are some photos of the first hatchling:

l should also mention our newest breeding project...Deb is pregnant! The baby is due on November 29, and this will be our first child. So far we don't know if it is a boy or girl, but we will hopefully find out next week. I'm hoping for a boy, so I have turned up the thermostat in the house to 90 degrees F (32 C). :)

6/3/09 - I posted 3 new really nice RAPTOR females to the available pages.

Our breeding season is going well. We hatched some cool geckos over the last few days, including a Dreamsickle, RADAR, Snow Rainwater Enigma, and Red Stripe Enigmas. We also have the first eggs from females bred to Godzilla! :)

5/7/09 - I posted 36 geckos to the available pages. The new geckos include Nephrurus amyae, a Diablo Blanco, a Blazing Blizzard het Diablo Blanco, Enigmas, Bell Sunglow Enigmas, Enigma Snow Bells, Bell Sunglows, a Bell Albino, RAPTORs, Snow RAPTORs, Super Hypo Tangerines, Giants, a Tremper Albino Enigma, a Giant Tremper Albino Enigma.

I will be away for the next several days, but will respond to emails and phone calls when I get back on Monday. I will be shipping geckos as usual on Monday, so geckos requested over the weekend can be shipped for Tuesday morning arrival.

4/20/09 - I will be chatting live this Friday answering your questions about geckos. The chat will start at 11:00 AM Pacific Time (2:00 PM Eastern Time, 20:00 Central European time). It will last for about an hour. Here is the link for the Chat Room: Gecko Nation Antwerp Chat Room

4/17/09 - Fifty-six geckos were added to the available pages over several updates I did over the last week. The new geckos include RAPTORs het Blizzard, Tremper Sunglows, Enigmas, Bell Albino Enigmas, Super Snows, Snow Bells, Snow Trempers, Super Snow Trempers, Super Snow Bells, Snow RAPTORs, Dreamsickles, Bold Stripe Snows, Bell Albinos, Hypo Tangerines, RAPTORs, Eclipse Enigma, Enigmas Het RAPTOR, a Mack Snow Eclipse, Snows Het RAPTOR, a Nova, Red Stripes, a Tremper Albino, and a RAPTOR het.

More geckos will be posted soon. I am still quite busy with putting breeder groups together, but I am planning on taking more photos in the next few days.

Our breeders have been having a productive start to the season and we have collected a lot of eggs. Our hatching season is just starting. So far the first to hatch were some really colorful enigmas from one of our enigma projects. I also hatched the first baby from our Blazing Bell female. I bred her to a male snow blizzard 100% het bell. The first baby to hatch...a snow blizzard 100% het bell. Oh well, my blazing bell will hopefully be coming in the next clutch! :)

Godzilla has been cooled for the last 2 months, but he is warmed up now and has started breeding. We are hoping for BIG things from him! It is so strange to see him in a box with females that weigh nearly 1/3 of his weight (170 gram Godzilla and 60 gram Tremper Sunglow females). So far he is getting along just fine with the smaller females.

3/16/09 - I am back home from my trip to the Hamm show in Germany. Thanks to everyone that purchased geckos from us! I had a great time as usual, and it was nice to see all our friends there again.

We are now taking orders for the next Hamm show on May 30. The terms of the shipment are exactly the same as previous shipments. I will be posting more geckos for sale soon. Let me know if you are looking for anything in particular, and I will be able to focus my picture taking for those morphs that you are interested in.

I just updated our shows page with all the shows we will be attending all over the world in 2009.

3/4/09 - Sixty-three geckos were added to the available pages. The new geckos include Nephrurus amyae (hypos and non hypos), Nephrurus wheeleri, Nephrurus levis, Blizzards, Eclipses, RAPTORs, RAPTOR hets, Red Stripes, Super Snow Tremper Albinos, Snow Tremper Albinos, Snow Bell Albinos, Super Hypo Tangerines, a Giant Albino, and some Tremper Albino Enigmas.

There is still time to place an order for the Hamm show. Let me know if you are interested in anything and we will work out the payment details.

2/21/09 - Seventy geckos were added to the available pages. The new geckos include Diablo Blancos, Tremper albinos het Diablo Blanco, RAPTORs het Blizzard, an Eclipse Enigma, Enigmas, Bell Albino Enigmas, Enigmas het for Bell Albino and Blizzard, Snow Trempers, RAPTORs, RAPTOR hets, APTORs, Bold Stripe Snows, Snow Bell Albinos, Bell Sunglows, a Super Snow Tremper Albino, a Giant Snow RAPTOR, Snow RAPTORs, a Super Snow Tremper Albino het RAPTOR, a Tangerine Tornado, Snow Enigmas, a Giant RAPTOR, Super Hypo Tangerines, an Enigma Snow Tremper, Enigmas het for Tremper Albino, a Bold Stripe, Red Stripes, and some Bell Albinos.

2/8/09 - I posted 5 new NOVA males to the available pages today. More geckos will be posted soon.

The geckos posted in the update on February 4 include Tremper Sunglows, RAPTORs, APTORs, RAPTOR hets, Super Hypo Tangerines, Bold Stripe Snows, Super Snows, Snow Tremper Albinos, Enigmas, Dreamsickles, Giant RAPTORs,Tremper Albinos, Eclipses, and Blazing Blizzards.

There aren't too many things hatching this time of year, but we do have some exciting things happening in our incubator now.

Hint: It's not a snake.....and it took them 6 months to hatch!

2/4/09 - In the summer time when we are busy with shows and babies hatching like crazy, I think "I can't wait until things slow down in the winter". That just isn't the case! I don't think there is ever a slow time when you are managing lots of reptiles. This time of year we are busy with setting up breeding groups, taking photos, emails, and updating the website. I think maybe the slowest time of the year is the late spring when the breeders are set up and laying eggs but the flood of babies hasn't started yet. Oh well, at least I enjoy my work!

I added some new geckos yesterday, and more new ones will be added today. In total there will be 77 new ones in this update.

This year has been unbelievably cold, and I have had to hold off shipping most orders in January and this first week of February. It looks like next week the weather in the US will finally warm up at the UPS hubs, so I should be able to get all the orders shipped this next week.

We have some exciting news:

Introducing GODZILLA!
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Godzilla is the new record for the largest leopard gecko in the world. He is a super giant that we hatched from the Tremper Giant bloodline. He is the grandson of Moose (one of the largest Giants). We hatched this guy from one of our giant groups on 5/20/07, so he is only 20 months old. He is currently 170 grams, and 11 and 5/8 inches long (29.52 cm). He hasn't been bred yet, but we hope to offer a limited number of Godzilla Giants for sale in 2009.

1/18/09 - Seventy geckos were added to the available pages today. The new geckos include Diablo Blancos, RAPTORs het Diablo Blanco, Blizzards het Diablo Blanco, Snow Bell Enigmas, Tremper Enigmas, Giant Tremper Enigmas het RAPTOR, Enigmas, Super Snows, Snows, Snow Tremper Albinos, Snow Bell Albinos, a Super Snow Bell, Bell Albinos, Bell Sunglows, Super Hypo Tangerines, RAPTORs, RAPTOR hets, and Eclipses.

I didn't get everything I wanted in this update but I will be taking more photos and adding more geckos to the available pages soon.

1/17/09 - Happy New Year everyone!

I was planning on adding new geckos to my available pages last week, but I was sick with a bad sinus infection. I am feeling better now, and will be adding new geckos to my website starting in the next day or two. So far I have over 70 geckos to add to the available pages, and will continue taking more photos this week as well. Please let me know if you are looking for anything in particular and I will look to see if I have it available.