BALL PYTHONS

• 6.11 Possible het Albino  (from het x het breedings) $75 pr
• 8.14 Possible het  VPI Axanthic (from het x het breedings) $75 pr
• 5.7 Possible het  SK Axanthic (from het x het breedings) $75 pr
• 4.7 Possible het Piebald (from het x het breedings) $75 pr
• 1.0 2007 100% het pied (Kahl) $100
• 1.0 2007 100 % het pied (Miles) $100
• 1.0 2007 100% het Ghost  (Ian G.) $135

BOA CONSTRICTORS

• 16.13 2009 Normals $75 each
• 0.1 2009 Albino possible het Stripe (from Albino het stripe x Hypo het Albino breeding) $300
• 1.0 2008 Pastel Boa $150
• 0.3 2007 Pastels $175 ea
• 0.1 2007 Normal $175
• 1.1 2007 Normals het Anery  possible het Albino (from Kahl Anery het Albino x Hypo het Albino) $300 pr
• 9.5 2009 Pastels $135 ea
• 6.8 2009 Het Albinos $100 ea
• 8.12 2009 Albinos $300 ea

DUMERILS BOAS

• 1.1 2007 Dumerills Boas (should be ready to go this season) $400 pr

HONDURANS

• 2.2 2007 Tangerine Tri-Color Hypo $250 pr
• 1.1 2007 Het Anery $200 pr
• 1.1 2007 Hypo x Pinstripe Hypo $250 pr
• 2.3 2005 het Snow Hondurans (proven) $300 pr
• 1.0 2005 het Hybino Honduran (proven) $175
• 0.2 2006 Tangerines (proven) $125 ea
• 0.1 2005 Hypo het Anery(proven) $150
• 1.0 2005 Tri-Color Hypo het Anery (proven) $175
• 1.0 2005Albino (proven) $200
• 1.1 2005 Pinstripe Hypo (proven) $350 pr
• 0.1 2006 Anery het Albino (proven) $150
• 1.1 2005 Tangerine Albino & Anery het Albino (proven) $300 pr
• 0.1 2005 Hypo het Anery (proven) $125

The Diffuse het Stripe x Granite het Stripe clutch hatched this past week, we have 3.1 Granite possible het Stripe and 1.2 Diffuse het Anery possible het Stripe that will be available soon. We did end up with a single Stripe in the clutch, a Granite, but it was dead in egg. Very disappointing, but we have one more clutch from this project due to hatch within the next 7-10 days. Our fingers are crossed for a higher Stripe count.

The remaining Pastel clutch should be pipping any day now. We will be holding back one more female Pastel, but after that all other hatchlings will be available for purchase. Normal males and Normal females will be sold in single lots per sex…So if anyone is in need of a batch of captive born and breed Normal females, please contact us to be notified when they are available for purchase.

We have a second clutch of eight Pastel x Normal eggs that should pip any day now. The four females that were paired with our Mojave and Spider males have not laid and we don’t expect them to at this point. Their is always next year though. It’s disappointing, but we keep our hopes up.

Cornsnakes should begin hatching by the end of this month. So if Corns are your particular flavor of reptile poison, check back in a few weeks! We’ll have lots of Stripes and some by-product hatchlings available! In particular we’re expecting Ghost Stripes, Snow Stripes, Diffusion Stripes, Granite Stripes, Diffusions, Granites, Normals, Charcoals, Lavas and Charcoal Lavas. Charcoal Lavas and Lavas will probably not be for sale, so don’t get your hopes up on them!

As it stands now we have 84 eggs in the incubator. The first clutch is due to hatch the end of this month, so look out for pippy pictures! At this late time in the season, we aren’t getting our hopes up that the remaining females are going to lay, but keep your fingers crossed! Included here some candid shots of some of our Cornsnake girls with their clutches.

We hope to have many, many lovely hatchling ball pythons available this year. The girls are fat and saucy and should be laying any day now. Subscribe to our blog to be notified when eggs are on the ground!

In instance one, our first shipment using SYR and UPS, the package was misplaced here in Pennsylvania. Luckily the snake was not going to a customer, but out on breeding loan. She took two days to arrive to her location even though she was just going a few states south. She did arrive in good health and our shipping fees were refunded by SYR, but lost packages (particularily when they contain live animals) are unacceptable to us. Shipping is stressful enough without the added worry of a company delivering packages 1-2 days beyond there scheduled delivery date.

Instance two happened just this past week and is far more of a serious matter then a single shipment arriving a day late. We were to receive a group of 10 ball pythons from a close friend who is to start Army boot camp next week. They were to arrive on Wednesday, however on Tuesday a phone call was made from the UPS Store the snakes were dropped off at…The UPS Store had opened the box and was refusing to ship the snakes because it is against UPS policy.

While it is against UPS standard policy, we had been led to believe that SYR had received an exemption to ship snakes under their account. UPS does accept the legged variety of reptile, but has a specific policy against the shipment of snakes. At the time of this writing, no documents have been provided showing SYR’s exemption to this policy. We are specifically looking for an official UPS document that gives users of SYR permission to ship snakes and can be included with each and every shipment to prevent problems.

SYR handled the situation quickly and apologized for the problem. A representative from SYR scheduled a pickup at the shippers location for the following day (Wednesday) with the same tracking number. On Wednesday the snakes were picked up without a concern, however the tracking number had been flagged from the day before and as soon as it was scanned at the UPS facility it was stopped, opened and refused. Messages were left on the shippers phone notifying her that if she did not retrieve her snakes by 10pm EST they would be turned over to Animal Control. Sadly the shipper did not receive the messages until the animals had already been turned over to Animal Control.

The shipper paid a $162 fee and picked up the 10 snakes from Animal Control Thursday afternoon (they were unavailable for pickup until 2pm EST). The snakes at this time appear no worse for wear from their stressful ordeal. We are attempting a final attempt at shipment on Monday and do not plan on using SYR again.

ShipYourReptiles.com has refunded the shipping fees and has agreed to provide a reimbursement for the Animal Control fees. We have not yet been provided an official, solid explanation as to why this happened or how it will be prevented by SYR in the future. This is ultimately why we will not send or receive snakes through UPS; we can not and will not risk the safety of our animals.

We would like to repeat that UPS does accept the legged variety of reptile, so you should have little trouble using SYR’s service for them.

While every time we ship out an animal we are taking a risk, it is our responsibility to minimize that risk as best we can.