What is cassowary?

In Brunei I been reading a lot of time In Brunei Newspaper mistaken identify ostrich as this animal. Once I seen a local company printed on their canned food product wrongly with proudly labeling cassowary in their canned food at Brunei International expo and stated it Made in Brunei. what an embarrassment, u cant even label your own product correctly what more trying to export it. Sorry a bit harsh word there but u making us Bruneian look fool and uneducated. with international tourist coming n visitor looking at their product. Man don't they carry researched before printing in one news paper and their canned food. Please, Cassowary is an endangered species and the world's most dangerous bird. How can u process it into canned food and proudly display it? Which in fact is was actually an ostrich meat.

Taxidermy Cassowary

Cassowary

So next time, when people refer ostrich as Cassowary, tell them off. Ostrich in Malay is called Burung Unta and Cassowari is kasuari. Dont get fooled by those dumb people. Peace and signed off.

Beadie Beardie Beardie

This Fellow had failed to produce me a lot of fertile eggs this season. So far it had laid twice in two month. 1st clutch with 20+ infertile eggs and 2nd clutch 6 eggs with 4 infertile.








So this pair will be resting from each other for 6 months, separate them then till the next 6 months then I will try to breed them again. Hopefully next time when I breed them, I will have my luck and successfully lay fertile eggs.

Corn Breeding project 09/10

sorry been long time no update. Just a brief update on my corn breeding project. 3 corn had already laid eggs. Anery, Dannysia Amel stripe and Snow Corn . Unfortunately 2 female corn had not been successful, Reverse okeetee and my Amel Stripe. Anery laid 20 eggs, Dannysia Amel Stripe laid 6 eggs + one slugs and snow laid 9 eggs with 2 slugs. Now I have 35 fertile eggs and 3 infertile.

Anery Laid on the 14th January 2010

Bearded Dragon Eggs

Only 2 fertile Beardie eggs

9 Snow Corn eggs

6 Danny Sia Amel Stripe Eggs

Amel Stripe & Snow Eggs Corn Together

20 Anery Corn Eggs

Slugs

This where I keep them

Still waiting for my Milksnakes project whether that have been successful too and My Albino Ball breeding project. So far I'm sure will have 35 new baby corn. Whatever morph come out on those corn. I'm happy with it, I will say I'm glad It paid off after long process.

Another Surprise

This is a surprise to me. After 0.1 reduced pattern ball finish shedding and feeding. I place my 1.0 lemon pastel in her enclosure just for fun to see whether they will lock. To my surprise, I saw locked. My reduced pattern just 1.1kg and it still underweight for breeding. Well since they had locked I might as well let it be. I know few expert ball breeder recommend not to breed your female until she reach 1.2 kg an above. well So, I did not listen, It still early and its only it 1st locked, for them to actually ovulate and lay her eggs and will take at least take few more months by then I'm sure she will weight 1.2kg above on the requirement weight to breed. I think I'm safe to say it should be alright as that reduced pattern hardly refuse food. Kinda garbage disposal.

1.0 pastel & 0.1 Reduced pattern

In Business meeting

Lock?

Another locked
Close up picture

Male Pastel is just 800grams plus, I think this rainy season factor may coz my 1.0 pastel in horny mode. Wasn't plan actually to breed both pair till next November, But Since they had locked, I might as well continue breeding them. Make sure reduced pattern do not skip any meal from now on. From this pairing I believe I will get 50% pastel and 50% normal, But I'm hoping for some reduced Pattern Pastel. That will Be so cool. Something like Zebra pastel. Pastel Pastel Pastel. Anyone want local Captive breed Pastel?
In the same time I paired my Albino X Normal again. Its their 8th locked so far. Will still paired them till normal female stop accepting Albino little thingy.

1.0 Albino & 0.1 Normal

Close up pics

Well! What can i say. If everything goes well. An local Captive breed ball python will be available soon in Brunei. So you guy do not have to buy any more expensive ball python from overseas. In Brunei, Someone can Breed them too. So just wait. It will become affordable.

Anery/Black Corn

Just a sneak preview Pictures of my colubridae Breeding Project Season 09/10. Anery laying her eggs today on 14th Jan 2010.. Stay tune and read my next upcoming post of the upcoming eggs counts. What I know it a lot of eggs.

Rodents Vs Birds

What do you feed yours snakes? Are they Stubborn feeder? Here is some of the food I offer my snakes. variety of choice. Baby Chick, Baby quail, Rat, Mice and hamster. I been ask few times by some snakes keeper and few other exotics pet hobbyist. what the different between bird and rodents as food for snakes. Here What I think after giving all those kind of variety meal for my pet snakes for few years.

baby Chick

Baby quail

Mice

Rats

I personally think. Rodent is good to fattening ur snakes especially if your wanted to make them quickly to breeding size as long not make your snakes too obese and after it digested it food, The snakes poo is like some dog poo with the shape like unripe small banana where as for bird, it worth to try for those stubborn feeder, Bird make your snakes skin glow and shinning and to make them to breeding size is bit slow maybe a baby bird do not have enough meat in it and it poo is watery n make ur vivarium dirtier. My guess it must been from the bird feather. Snakes will still grow but just bit slower. Basically as long they eat. As a snakes keeper. That itself is satisfying enough and nothing to be worried.
I know some keeper will stress out when their pet Snakes refuse food for few weeks or sometimes up to few months. Actually that shouldn't be any problem. Snakes can last 6 and up to a year without food. As long as ur snakes is healthy and do not lose too much weight. But if i does lose a lot of weight and still do not show sign wanted to eat. Try different type of food before seeking last option to assist feeding them.
S0 for all snakes keeper. Good Luck on trying all those food item for your pet snakes. I'm sure it easily available In the markets in Brunei if u know how and where to look..

Check out my sexy gravid Corn

It January now and it's been almost 5 months since I started my corn breeding project. My corns had been in and out of hibernation, mating and now I guess it is time for the corns to lay eggs soon. I noticed 3 corn are gravid now:- my Anery Corn, my Snow Corn and DannySia Amel Stripe. I'm Super excited about it. The 2 other corns:- my Amel Stiped Corn (that I'm not quite sure coz she still eats after shedding, which is not what a normal gravid female corn would do, as they wont eat after shedding until she lay eggs) and the Reversed Okeetee ( who still doesnt want to mate yet)

Snow Corn

Anery/Black Corn

My Amel Stripe

Danny Sia Amel Stripe

Obviously after going through a long process of hibernation, mating n now up to stage of being gravid and soon laying eggs, what i dont want to see is losing all or even some of the eggs during incubation. Therefore, i have been preparing for the incubation period by gathering all the necessary equipment and materials. I had bought some vermiculite for the incubation of my soon-to-be-coming eggs. I personally think vermiculite is the best substrate to be used for incubation. I had also prepared some perlite for trial this time as i heard it gives a cleaner and much dryer surface.

Blood Blood Blood

You guys must have been wondering what hell me and edpets been goofing around with each other Chatbox message with Blood blood blood. Now is the time to reveal what we actually mean. In herps term meaning is "Blood Python". They are three sub species know for blood python. Borneo Blood Python(Python Breitensteini), Sumatran Blood python(Python Curtus) and Malayan Red Blood python(Python Brongersmai). Blood python in the wild habitats can be found in rain forest where it found in marshes, swamp and along a river banks and stream.

Malayan Blood Python

Very Beautiful Malayan Blood python

Can Be found In Malaysia

3 months old Python

Sumatran Blood Python

1.0 Black Blood

3 months old Black Blood Python

Okay, I just got myself a new pair of Blood Python. Actually I'm suppose to put them in quarantine, not to disturb them but when i offered them food they strike an eat. An female Malayan Blood and male Sumatran Black Blood. Both this blood are captive snakes breed by some breeder from overseas. My oh my, I'm telling u guys. They are just so so beautiful. especially the Sumatran blood.
Borneo blood python can be found in Brunei but to find it wasn't that easy. I use to keep an adult wild caught Borneo Blood python But she went to heaven as she starved herself to death.

Oh my god, my last post

Sadly to inform reader, this going to be last post for this year. So goodbye year 2009 and hello 2010. Year 2009 so far had been great. With the birth of my 1st daughter I couldn't ask for more from god how happy I'm in Year 2009 had been for me.

My Reptiles shows this year started from Yayasan school early 2009, then Qlap Mall Reptiles show, then Chung Hwa school Fun Fair and finally the DST carnival early December. Most of it I say are very encouraging response from the public with some people finally aware of this misunderstood creature. I saw few people started collecting this exotics creatures and begin their addiction in collecting this animals. My wish for this keeper is never give up in this hobby.

During this year too, I had rejected few invitation to participate in exotics animals showcase due to unforeseen circumstances. That was last June Penaga Highland Funfair, Agriculture expo last November and Mediahub Showcase this year. Hopefully Next Year if i was invited again I will try my best to participate.

Before I'm signing off for the new year. I Wish to share something: As the year ends. Don't count what you lost, Cherish what you have, forget the past, Planned and gained for upcoming year, the past can never be return but the future may still fulfill what you had loss.

Wishing everyone and their families. Happy advances new year with prosperous New Year 2010.

Milk Snakes

No Snakes keeper would be complete without having milk snakes in their collection, These remarkable beautiful milk snakes are beautiful, hardy and popular snake. The only disadvantages of having these snakes is their slightly nervousness and their need to privacy and seclusion. This Milk snakes Simply had too many subspecies, Among them are: Pueblan, Sinaloan, Honduran, Nelson, Mexican and etc etc..

Apricot Pueblan Milk snakes

Pueblan Milk snake

I'm Breeding this above Pueblan Milksnakes for the 1st time this season, Hopefully I can get few more of this attractive pueblan.

Tangerine Honduran MilkSnake

Tri-Color honduran Milksnake

Albino Tangerine Honduran Milksnake

Albino Nelson Milksnake

I have keep few of this Milk snakes species myself. Some I keep it. Some are sold and some die of sickness. This milk snakes are commonly mistake by people of being a venomous coral snakes. Their mimicry likely to scare away a predator. A simple rhyme makes it easy to remember the order: Red on yellow kill a fellow. An alternative rhyme, yellow on red, you're are dead and red to black is your friends Jack. This rhyme method is to identify in the wild whether the milksnakes is venomous coral snake or harmless Milksnakes. So what you are waiting for? Go get yourself a milk snakes.

Peafowl

First of all before I started. Wishes all the blogger and reader an Merry Christmas for those that celebrated Christmas.

Peafowl is two species of bird in the genus PAVO of the pheasant Families. We been keeping and breeding peafowl for quite sometimes now. For sale or for display purpose. They consist of two type of peafowl. Indian Peafowl and Javanese Peafowl. Male peafowl are famous for it beautiful tails and whereas female peafowl usually brown in colors. Male are called peacock, the female peahen. Peafowl are gruesome and they do not mix well with other domestic pets and it utters unpleasant sound usually before rainfall. In the wild they sometimes eat a baby Cobra.

Head of peafowl

Peafowl extravagant tail

An Indian mix Javanese Male PeafowlFemale Indian peafowl5 female to 1 male ratio for Breeding
Another female Pictures
Pied peafowl

I might have confuse to name some genus of the peafowl. Javanese Peafowl are also called green peafowl. Javanese peafowl can be hybridize with an Indian Peafowl and create offspring call spauldings. The long ornamental feather, which the peacock display show magnificently before peahen in courtship, are not it true tail feathers but an elongated tails of the upper tail convert. In courtship, the tail convert are elevated to form a massive, lacy fan supported by behind by the unadorned tail feathers. So anyone that interested in keeping peafowl, I might have one baby. Not sure I'm selling it or not yet. But if the price is right I will sell it. Email me(for only serious buyer) if you interested, Be prepare to spend substantial amount of money coz I'm not selling it cheap.

In the same time, Few of our bird had also hatched, 6 already been transfer to big enclosure and 2 still left in the incubation room waiting for the birds to get strong and healthy .

Recently hatched Bird

Just started walking

One of the largest flightless bird(Not the largest)

Few eggs waiting to hatch

Guess what bird is that? For those bird enthusiastic. U might have seen it before if u ever been to Agriculture expo last November. Few of those bird were on display there and my guess no one have it yet as private individual collector except maybe us in Brunei and maybe you also might have try it red meat. A very tasty low cholesterol meat. Happy guessing.

Hint: This bird is the symbol of a country coat of arms flag.