About me.
My name is Brendan Cunningham, I'm a keeper and breeder of reptiles in the Hawkesbury, NSW.
I started getting interested and learning about reptiles in 2001, I had always had reptiles in the house growing up, but I wasn't overly interested in learning about them, because to me, they were a normal pet, like a cat or dog.
But one day I was really looking at them and I noticed they looked so different from any other pet out there. Ever since that day, I was completely hooked on them and made it my goal in life to learn as much about them as possible.
I started breeding reptiles in 2008, when I felt I had learnt enough to breed and raise hatchlings in a healthy way. The first reptile I ever hatched, was a garden skink. I found an egg in the garden I was digging up and decided, since my pythons hadn't laid eggs yet, I should try incubating this egg. Well about a month later, the little skink had hatched from it's egg, I gave it a feed and let it go back into the garden where I first found the egg.
The first captive reptile I ever bred, was a spotted python. everything went smoothly and all the eggs hatched out fine. This is when I got addicted to breeding reptiles, when those little heads pop out of the eggs and start to come out, you think to yourself "It's because of me, these snakes are alive", it gives you a pretty good feeling inside and you want to do it again and again, even though the hatchlings will want to kill you for the first couple of months.
I then added more breeding stock and harder reptiles to breed, like Boyds Forest Dragons, which were tricky for the first couple of clutches, because other Boyds breeders saw me as competition, they gave me bad information on incubating them and I lost a couple of clutches, but I tweaked a couple of things with incubation (that I learnt from studying their natural habitat) and they all started hatching out fine.
Now days, I have plenty of breeding stock, from Children's Pythons to Carpet pythons to Geckos to Bearded Dragons, even some special coloured and patterned future breeding projects.
My all time favourite Python is the Rough Scaled Python.
They are the most unique Python and here are my reasons why.
Even though they're just brown and cream in colour, it is the most unique brown and cream, you will have a hard time finding another python with the exact brown and cream colours.
Also the obvious reason why they're unique is their keeled scales, giving them that rough feel, this makes them the only Python with rough scales.
Their big blue eyes are another unique trait of theirs.
They are closely related to the Green Tree Python, which explains why they have the body and head shape of a Green Tree Python.
They have a night time colour change, where their whole body turns a very light cream colour.
They have the biggest teeth of all Pythons for their size, but luckily they're a very placid natured Python.
But my favourite trait of the Rough Scaled Python, is they coil up into a ball (as seen in the photo above).
Well that's a little on me and how I started out. Please enjoy the site and don't hesitate to contact me.
I started getting interested and learning about reptiles in 2001, I had always had reptiles in the house growing up, but I wasn't overly interested in learning about them, because to me, they were a normal pet, like a cat or dog.
But one day I was really looking at them and I noticed they looked so different from any other pet out there. Ever since that day, I was completely hooked on them and made it my goal in life to learn as much about them as possible.
I started breeding reptiles in 2008, when I felt I had learnt enough to breed and raise hatchlings in a healthy way. The first reptile I ever hatched, was a garden skink. I found an egg in the garden I was digging up and decided, since my pythons hadn't laid eggs yet, I should try incubating this egg. Well about a month later, the little skink had hatched from it's egg, I gave it a feed and let it go back into the garden where I first found the egg.
The first captive reptile I ever bred, was a spotted python. everything went smoothly and all the eggs hatched out fine. This is when I got addicted to breeding reptiles, when those little heads pop out of the eggs and start to come out, you think to yourself "It's because of me, these snakes are alive", it gives you a pretty good feeling inside and you want to do it again and again, even though the hatchlings will want to kill you for the first couple of months.
I then added more breeding stock and harder reptiles to breed, like Boyds Forest Dragons, which were tricky for the first couple of clutches, because other Boyds breeders saw me as competition, they gave me bad information on incubating them and I lost a couple of clutches, but I tweaked a couple of things with incubation (that I learnt from studying their natural habitat) and they all started hatching out fine.
Now days, I have plenty of breeding stock, from Children's Pythons to Carpet pythons to Geckos to Bearded Dragons, even some special coloured and patterned future breeding projects.
My all time favourite Python is the Rough Scaled Python.
They are the most unique Python and here are my reasons why.
Even though they're just brown and cream in colour, it is the most unique brown and cream, you will have a hard time finding another python with the exact brown and cream colours.
Also the obvious reason why they're unique is their keeled scales, giving them that rough feel, this makes them the only Python with rough scales.
Their big blue eyes are another unique trait of theirs.
They are closely related to the Green Tree Python, which explains why they have the body and head shape of a Green Tree Python.
They have a night time colour change, where their whole body turns a very light cream colour.
They have the biggest teeth of all Pythons for their size, but luckily they're a very placid natured Python.
But my favourite trait of the Rough Scaled Python, is they coil up into a ball (as seen in the photo above).
Well that's a little on me and how I started out. Please enjoy the site and don't hesitate to contact me.