Desert Gem Herps

10/27/2025

Here is a fall photo dump been so busy with doing bedding changes to a more natural bedding for the uromastyx started in summer and still changing as much as i can into fall here are a group of animals I have been raising up the past year from male yemenensis I received from scott wilson a year ago to female yemenensis I been raising for a few years was also super lucky to add multiple morrocan flame uromastyx yearlings im raising up for future breeders along with some high yellow morrocans not the common green blue ones the morrocans are EU imports , I also decided to cut back in my ctenosaura projects and decided to work with testudo tortoises again was really lucky to acquire some beautiful cbb morrocan and lybyan tortoises from my friends over at .tortoise.compound really excited to see them mature into adults in the next few years , also got lucky to find a young adult pair of Egyptian Tortoises from my friend Devon over I also recently got back a group of sub adult white banded uromastyx females and one male i hatched years ago from a friend out of state ill be raising the group up for more future breeders trying to preserve this rare locality of uromastyx in captivity, have really been digging the new bedding I got from my buddy Dalton over For my uromastyx and tortoises they are really enjoying it . The rest of the animals are either babies hatched here ready to go or other projects like the saara hardwickki i got back in spring that did really well and acclimated with me great .
Thanks all for who have helped me this year bounce back after a bad year last year , blessed to be able to work with these animals .

10/21/2025

09/28/2025

The white banded hatchling uromastyx are growing really well and thriving here they are approaching the 6 week mark and some are already flying out to their forever homes this coming week, I'm really happy to be able to keep and breed this species for the time I have been working with them as you can see a proud dad with its offspring in the first photo followed by the same baby laying on his dad's neck area the male is a uscb male that came from Doug dix in 2016 from his white silver lines and the last photo is a example of 4 bloodlines of banded uromastyx hatched here this season the far right is a orange banded and the 3 middle and left ones are all white bandeds
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09/16/2025

This weekend was great got to see and spend time with some good friends I have made in the hobby I been in for almost 20 years , so humbled and appreciated to know good people in the community huge thanks to my good friends Anthony, Jontae, Mario , Dalton for helping me set up and clean up my my booth for the enclosures I brought I went a bit overboard this time it was great to see familiar faces and meet new ones thanks to everyone who stopped by and showed support I appreciate you all and mostly my family for helping me with all of this cause with out them I wouldn't achieve what I have done moments like this is what matters the most to me with my family hope to see everyone at the next super show in pomona in 2026

08/28/2025

Most of the babies have hatched the past few weeks , I haven't had much down time to post with alot of stuff going on so far all the white flavifasciata (banded ) uromastyx clutches hatched total of 4 clutches all unrelated pairings I haven't hatched these guys in the past 2 years due to health issues , but i been lucky this season to get a few amount of babies this season unplanned I also managed to hatch a baby princeps this season the clutch was small of 4 eggs 2 eggs went bad halfway incubation and only 1 made it from the 2 left im still ecstatic to hatch it all that's left to hatch is a orange flavifasciata clutch of a unrelated pairing they should hatch any day this week . Hoping this locality of white flavifasciata become more popular and available in the future they seem to not be around or available as often as the other's here domestically .

07/19/2025

Ever since I started keeping uros in the late 2000s I always wanted to keep all the locality of Banded uromastyx (uromastyx flavifasciata) it was at my first reptile expo back in anaheim 2008-09 I saw them in person thanks to Doug dix who had babies on his booth I instantly fell in love with them along with most of the North African species , but flavifasciata are probably my favorite in my collection why I keep a good amount of them in each color hoping to produce more of these gems in the future so others can enjoy them as much as i been lucky to keep them . In the slides you can see all 3 colors from different males difference in ages as well the orange and yellows are cb imports from europe while the large white male was hatched from Lindsay pike some years ago .

07/09/2025

Late post been so busy these last few weeks with vending my first show in years and moving out some enclosures I didn't think were working for me anymore to getting new ones forgot to post this clutch of orange banded uromastyx (flavifasciata) the pair is unrelated hoping for the eggs to hatch around august or early September this was my 7th clutch this season and think my final one i was hoping for philbyi eggs i saw the pairs breed, but think the females re absorbed them never found them hoping this species of uromastyx becomes more available and more recognizable in the market and community

06/17/2025

I have been really lucky and blessed to receive three clutches of white banded uromastyx eggs the past week the last one was laid right before father's day , all of them are from unrelated animals i used one male to breed the first female on the slide and the 2nd female as well the last clutch I posted are unrelated as well I have been keeping uromastyx since 2007-08 and bandeds have always been my favorite been keeping them since 08-09 I'm lucky to be able to breed this amazing species and locality the whites will always be favorite the oranges are nice as well I barely acquired yellows they're great too , but the white with black contrast are my favorite i hope more people worked with this species and locality don't really see these available often I know not everyone has the space to keep these long term , but for anyone who is a true uromastyx lover these are a must have they are very hardy and most of mine tame down with the time I have been keeping them.

05/28/2025

I have been keeping uromastyx flavifasciata since 2008-09 and have always loved the variety that comes with in the species from the white , orange and yellows I have been lucky to keep these for the time I been keeping uromastyx . I have kept and bred the white and oranges , but up until recently didnt have any luck finding any yellows available I got really lucky and blessed to acquire the yellows finally into my breeding program hoping to add this locality in my bucket list of species kept and bred and hoping to make this species more available to the hobby domestically really love the pattern variations and color they display fired up with some nice sunlight

05/25/2025

Came home two days ago to a unexpected clutch of uromastyx princeps eggs i have raised the females in this group since 2019 and the male came in 2020 they still have alot to grow and develop more color the clutch is small of 4 but for her first time laying im really excited for this is my first time getting eggs for this species so far this is my first clutch this season hoping to get orange and white flavifasciata eggs along with philbyi

05/22/2025

I received this beautiful ctenosaura acanthura a few weeks ago from happy to add her to my colony I was able to get her probed and its a female have always loved this species they're my favorite compared to other ctenosaura these are my favorite species to keep can't wait to see it mature thanks to ty park and for producing this beautiful species