An Afternoon with Ron Tremper - HerpersTV S1:Ep3

hey her purse fans I'm Dave Kaufman in this episode you're in for a real treat as fellow her / Jeff LeClair goes down to Bernie Texas to visit the legendary Ron Trump errs place you're about to see some real leopard gecko eye candy in this episode so welcome to herpers TV hey Jeff welcome come on down to one of our always here we breed course leopard geckos we produced some thousands of those but we also have a wholesale market and price list and so we have the high-end stuff on our website but we do about 250 ball pythons in here okay we've got a nice group of lavender oh oh pythons oh there you go we have the southern wall Sutherland line and look at the color on those sides it's almost metallic yeah and I like that edging it's not getting edging is just awesome on that snake crazy huh and we were fortunate we hit it pretty good and we produced 21 of those this year so we've got some of my specialty leopard geckos here's one of our red stripe project animals uh-huh and we're real erisa nice orange stripe and so forth and it's a gorgeous leopard gecko yeah we got some cool stuff here's a one we call the super tangelo at least nice tangerine bands and in the super form they expand and take over the lightbody bands as it matures and this fills in it's an extreme a marine it's an out the albino a marine and it's patternless with nice nice tail this one's going to a hominid show next week oh is it yeah we can't get to all the shows so we should kind of consolidate with a friend and just do a shipment over to Germany and get that going leopard geckos spend my thing we just hatched our thirty-six generation of captive bred bloodline and some of them bloodlines have been continuous for all those generations so we've got some pretty cool stuff a few years ago I thought I'd try to the snow eclipsed I'm snow Eclipse and came up with quite a shock this ol whopper galaxy it's a yeah go DOM and they're pretty unique and they they're head shape changes has they get older I'll show you Lee yeah they get big bulbous eyes and indentations in the skull kind of raise us up it's interesting this morph is still not too well-known there's something a lot more going on with it then then we know that interesting yeah of course we have the e-mount with the diablo blanco the white devil a few years ago by putting the i found the gene for solid eye color in 2004 so we put that red eye into the all-white gecko and call it the diablo blanco they've been a real hit this is haul - we call it it's mostly all leopard geckos a few fat tail geckos and couple tortoises in here but there's over a thousand blanket boxes and i built these racks because 20 years ago the melamine racks that are available is so expensive to put this many boxes in place so i'm pretty handy with things and using the 3/4 inch plywood and three inch screws everything's in there we just have a very small tolerance at the top and we put about 72 air holes in each blanket box where it's a breeding situation just for better circulation I use the 3 inch flex watt heat tape so we've got some leopard geckos in here these are ones that I'm holding back for new breeding stock is called a blue spot carrot tail Eclipse has two all black eyes all leopard geckos have a blue spot on their head when they hatch but this one morph retains it pretty nicely so the albino of this is called the Raptor as to all red eyes and the word Raptor stands for red eye patternless Tremper Orange so do you keep trios together most of the time or Andy rotate females or males or how do you do that when you're ready to breed certain things together well over the years I first started 35 years ago when I was breeding leopard geckos there wasn't much known and so I made these big galvanized metal pans this is no joke I still have them they were eight feet long up this deep while with gravel and I put a male and a hundred females in each one and and then I had like two egg-laying boxes and then I had heat tape just laying on on the gravel and the ash trays sunk into the gravel for feeding dishes you know this way 1979-1980 oh my gosh and so primitive and then over the years have cut that down cut that down the special project animals are just got one female per box okay so that we know what's going on and now this year for the first time my pet trade animals which are very beautiful but they're kind of byproduct of what I'm working on I'm doing just one and maybe two and just moving the male to a different cage okay each male has ten cages in a row he's think kara I've had males be able to take care of twenty like when I came up with the trim for albino mm-hmm he was breeding a different gauge every day for twenty days and then start the row over this is a rainbow-striped project we have going on what we've done here well is taken this red stripe male and this one had five colors of striping you see some lavender left but there was black lavender yellow and the orange and some red striping so we call this the rainbow project and we've bred these two together and made the combination young and now we're going to breed those young to each other we don't use any substrate we not if you go washing all the time that male is laid down scent trails and they have their whole cage tricked out and they're comfortable with that if you go washing this all the time and cleaning lids and disinfecting your really racing all that and it causes stress and it's not excuse for leaving some droppings in the corner you know they they go in one corner and it's just dry and we can shop back those up again we've got our little water dish we got our mealworms and our vitamin mineral powder which they look up dusting insects is an arbitrary way to try to deliver the right thing just look at that look it up on their own just like when you feel like you need a piece of fruit no leopard gecko knows exactly when it needs to lick up some vitamin mineral powder and we use we don't use any reptile vitamin mineral supplements we use stuff for dogs and cats that has all the amino acids not just vitamin d3 a and calcium that's not enough all right in my opinion but you can get by with that but that's just my way of doing it we use a product called V&A cyanate that's used for babies and till animals are sexually mature it's just in the dish they can lick it up and this is why some leopard gecko's not given the right nutrition suddenly you put on sand or some substrate that's a particle and they detect something that they need they start overeating at plus they lunch at crickets and get substrate in their mouth like sand and they can get impacted it's what I'm calling the super platinum because of its color this sort of over some cinnamon color or light brown they've come out of my super galaxy time super snow breedings far as I know there's no blizzard or patternless leopard gecko's the Murphy pattern lists in my line I'm going to be test breeding this right now I'm bringing it to a blizzard I'm bringing another one to some pattern this Murphy pattern list just to see what we get and because I don't like to let out anything or make any claims till I've done test breeding for a couple years sir let me since but this could be a super galaxy or a super dye right that has no pattern and it could be something brand new Soudan people are waiting for that results I have eight or nine of these animals and they don't have the big head like a blizzard and blizzards have a darker head when they're born a dark spot on their head these don't have that okay oh these guys could be the next big rare thing I feel it's probably a super galaxy without pattern or maybe something entirely new so we'll see see if the Platinum is a real deal or not one of our bama carbs it's called a bandit because the band across the nose it's not a true recessive we also bred for reduced hot spots for 12 years so I get a lot of them as happy face on the top I usually only have three or four markings but I started these in 95 and it's a polygenic trait the band across the nose and this high contrast is the only non albino morph that keeps the rich deep black as an adult the concentration of black pigment in this is genetic and that does carry over there my favorite morph of leopard gecko oh really ate it yeah I liked a high contrast it's really rich and bred in some lab and ER so these are some pick animals that'll be breeding later this year that's a striking looking animal yeah it's a great morph so what is the annual cost for an operation like this well it's considerable I mean we've tried to build in every energy saving feature with our automatic doors where we can let the natural air and light come in and turn off the overheads and turn off the air conditioning you know and kind of being a human thermostat but in all in all when you get this large you have to have some staff and that gets costly and then running you know place over 9,000 square feet here with all the food and even though we raised rodents in the hall we pretty much you know have to bring in three hundred dollars a day to the break-even hey you know about ten thousand dollars a month don't break even and so you know I've been totally self-sustained next month will be 31 years on captive breeding home and of course now I do apps and I've written a book and do some corporate but you know a lot of people have had day jobs or have a spouse and you know the thing is we love this kind of deal to FDA we're born as a Lully evide but the reptiles don't know it's Christmas or it's your birthday or you just need some time off then we still love it and we'll do what most people wouldn't do and oh yes just this I'm going to keep going long time what's your opinion if you could only keep one type of lizard in your collection what would it be comment below and share your opinion what did I say about leopard gecko eye candy you know there's no one else in the world that is as knowledgeable in leopard gecko husbandry and breeding than Ron Tremper and it was a real treat to go down there and film his facility until next time you've been watching her purrs TV we'll see you the first and third Monday of every month

Channel: Dāv Kaufman's Reptile Adventures

Views: 75,374

Keywords: leopard gecko, ron tremper, herpers, herperstv, snakebytestv, ball python, gecko, Snake, Reptile, Python Regius (Organism Classification), Herpetology (Field Of Study), lizard, dav kaufman, jeff LeClere, snakebytes, snakebytes.tv

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Length: 12min 11sec (731 seconds)

Published: Mon May 05 2014