Many will have heard by now that Diane and I have decided to retire from serious reptile breeding and from running Southern Cross Reptiles. In the 20 years Diane and I have been together, we have never been able to take a decent holiday together because of all the reptiles. Once the collection grew to over 1,000 animals it became almost impossible to have any sort of holiday together.
With our sixties on the near horizon, we feel it important to free ourselves to do some travelling while we still have our health. And something else all you youngsters wouldn’t think about is that our hands are buggered from cleaning cages and washing hundreds and hundreds of water bowls – it’s certainly something we won’t miss.
A large portion of the collection, the cages, incubators, rat and mouse breeding facilities, baby racks, web site and so are being taken over by a much younger couple named Steve and Missy. We have known them for a long time and Steve has worked for Southern Cross Reptiles for the last 3+ years. Both are very down to earth, reliable and honest people. I’m sure you will be hearing a lot more from them in the future.
We still have a lot of outstanding stock that we plan to gradually part with over the next 12 months. The variety of pythons we are still to sell is very diverse and if you can think of it we will probably be parting with it at some stage.
Because I always enjoyed running the snake auctions, I’ve had a go at building an automated auction site to sell a portion of our animals. Typically these snakes will be some of the more interesting stuff, but there will be something there to interest most tastes. At the moment, we are auctioning hypo bredli, albinos, a couple of the more unusual Antaresia, an Aussie GTP, a caramel Coastal and a pair of Olives.
You can access the site by clicking on the auction icon on our home page or directly by going to SXR Australian Reptile Auctions | Make your bid!
We are not parting with all our snakes but we are going to keep it to a very small group. We intend to hold onto a pair of GTPs, Destiny (the paradox female albino) and a male albino named Orion which is bright gold and white. I’m also going to keep my favourite snake Brutus, a 17 year old male olive … and we’ll probably keep one Marble Childreni for nostalgia. It shouldn’t be too hard to find someone to look after our 6 snakes so we can take lots of extended holidays!
I also have a few snakes that I’m going to give away on APS to folk that otherwise wouldn’t be able to access them. Why will we do that when we are quitting… because we can and the hobby has been very good to us. It won’t be through contests, just for people that we think should be given a break. I’ll be back on APS in a while to explain how I’d like to go about this.
Although its not goodbye yet, we’d like to give our best wishes to all the people that have been so good to deal with and those that have been a positive influence on the hobby. To all the whingers and those with negative attitudes that like to criticise everyone else that doesn’t agree with them, I guess there is always hope that you’ll change your ways.
Happy herping.
With our sixties on the near horizon, we feel it important to free ourselves to do some travelling while we still have our health. And something else all you youngsters wouldn’t think about is that our hands are buggered from cleaning cages and washing hundreds and hundreds of water bowls – it’s certainly something we won’t miss.
A large portion of the collection, the cages, incubators, rat and mouse breeding facilities, baby racks, web site and so are being taken over by a much younger couple named Steve and Missy. We have known them for a long time and Steve has worked for Southern Cross Reptiles for the last 3+ years. Both are very down to earth, reliable and honest people. I’m sure you will be hearing a lot more from them in the future.
We still have a lot of outstanding stock that we plan to gradually part with over the next 12 months. The variety of pythons we are still to sell is very diverse and if you can think of it we will probably be parting with it at some stage.
Because I always enjoyed running the snake auctions, I’ve had a go at building an automated auction site to sell a portion of our animals. Typically these snakes will be some of the more interesting stuff, but there will be something there to interest most tastes. At the moment, we are auctioning hypo bredli, albinos, a couple of the more unusual Antaresia, an Aussie GTP, a caramel Coastal and a pair of Olives.
You can access the site by clicking on the auction icon on our home page or directly by going to SXR Australian Reptile Auctions | Make your bid!
We are not parting with all our snakes but we are going to keep it to a very small group. We intend to hold onto a pair of GTPs, Destiny (the paradox female albino) and a male albino named Orion which is bright gold and white. I’m also going to keep my favourite snake Brutus, a 17 year old male olive … and we’ll probably keep one Marble Childreni for nostalgia. It shouldn’t be too hard to find someone to look after our 6 snakes so we can take lots of extended holidays!
I also have a few snakes that I’m going to give away on APS to folk that otherwise wouldn’t be able to access them. Why will we do that when we are quitting… because we can and the hobby has been very good to us. It won’t be through contests, just for people that we think should be given a break. I’ll be back on APS in a while to explain how I’d like to go about this.
Although its not goodbye yet, we’d like to give our best wishes to all the people that have been so good to deal with and those that have been a positive influence on the hobby. To all the whingers and those with negative attitudes that like to criticise everyone else that doesn’t agree with them, I guess there is always hope that you’ll change your ways.
Happy herping.
