Joe Lydon
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I've been into animals since the day I could read. I've owned everything from ants to alligators. I was heavy into breeding boa constrictor imperator morphs around 2004-2007. I was keeping over 150 boas at any given time. I produced my first Motley litter back in 2006 and ended up making $25,000 off of 10 babies. I built a pretty large collection from there and the rest was history.
Here are a few pictures of things I've kept. Some of these photos date back to Sony Mavica 1.3mp cameras, so bare with me!
2003 Triple heterozygous striped Sunglow female. Simple recessive pattern/color and Co dominant color mutation. She was $3500 back in the day.
2006 Albino Jungle male.. Simple recessive color mutation and Co dominant pattern/color mutation. Super Jungles are still my favorite boa morph to date. $6000 back in the day..
2006 Anerythristic female. Not too pricey, $1000, but she was one of the best representations for the trait. Truely lacking red. Erythristic means red, the "An" prefix means "no". Mix it with albino and you get a "Snow boa" (white)
2004 Arabesque male Het albino. Arabesque is a pattern morph, identified by thin, interconnecting saddles, lateral striping and laddertails. This pattern is passed on to generally 50% of the offspring.
2004 Hypo het albino aka dh Sunglow male with a bit of Hogg island locality mixed in. This was my fun snake! He was always aggressive and fun to take out when I had company. I would put him on the floor and let him take strikes at me. He was my first expensive snake at $2500 out of pocket money.
My money maker. 2004 Male Motley with one of his offspring. Paid $8500 for the sire in 2005.
2004 Super Ghost male. Dominant Hypo Anerythristic boa. Still the best representation to date of the morph.
One of my Emerald tree boas, "Lucky".. Check out the 4 leaf clover scalation on his head.
This is how snakes "get it on"..
Motley on a big female!
Super Ghost courting a 50lb anerythristic female..
Pay day... My first litter of Motleys in 2006. $25,000 in this picture. I have the paypal transaction history to prove it!
Really pink hypo out of the last litter I produced.
Blizzard leopard geckos from the breeding project I helped my kids with.
Daughter with her Woma python.
Part of my breeder setup.
Our gator.. Rather not say his name...
6' Varanus Albugularis. He made a mess with rats.
Asian water monitor. He was great!
My 190 from 2001 with my all time, favorite fish!
Our prarie dogs. Peewee and Doogie.
Our dogs!
Well, that's all I care to post. I have a million more pics and kept and bred 10x's more species.
I almost bought a mountain lion cub from a friend's store in Indiana. I was playing with it, but my judgment got the best of me!
What have you guys kept or still keep?
Here are a few pictures of things I've kept. Some of these photos date back to Sony Mavica 1.3mp cameras, so bare with me!
2003 Triple heterozygous striped Sunglow female. Simple recessive pattern/color and Co dominant color mutation. She was $3500 back in the day.
2006 Albino Jungle male.. Simple recessive color mutation and Co dominant pattern/color mutation. Super Jungles are still my favorite boa morph to date. $6000 back in the day..
2006 Anerythristic female. Not too pricey, $1000, but she was one of the best representations for the trait. Truely lacking red. Erythristic means red, the "An" prefix means "no". Mix it with albino and you get a "Snow boa" (white)
2004 Arabesque male Het albino. Arabesque is a pattern morph, identified by thin, interconnecting saddles, lateral striping and laddertails. This pattern is passed on to generally 50% of the offspring.
2004 Hypo het albino aka dh Sunglow male with a bit of Hogg island locality mixed in. This was my fun snake! He was always aggressive and fun to take out when I had company. I would put him on the floor and let him take strikes at me. He was my first expensive snake at $2500 out of pocket money.
My money maker. 2004 Male Motley with one of his offspring. Paid $8500 for the sire in 2005.
2004 Super Ghost male. Dominant Hypo Anerythristic boa. Still the best representation to date of the morph.
One of my Emerald tree boas, "Lucky".. Check out the 4 leaf clover scalation on his head.
This is how snakes "get it on"..
Motley on a big female!
Super Ghost courting a 50lb anerythristic female..
Pay day... My first litter of Motleys in 2006. $25,000 in this picture. I have the paypal transaction history to prove it!
Really pink hypo out of the last litter I produced.
Blizzard leopard geckos from the breeding project I helped my kids with.
Daughter with her Woma python.
Part of my breeder setup.
Our gator.. Rather not say his name...
6' Varanus Albugularis. He made a mess with rats.
Asian water monitor. He was great!
My 190 from 2001 with my all time, favorite fish!
Our prarie dogs. Peewee and Doogie.
Our dogs!
Well, that's all I care to post. I have a million more pics and kept and bred 10x's more species.
I almost bought a mountain lion cub from a friend's store in Indiana. I was playing with it, but my judgment got the best of me!
What have you guys kept or still keep?
