Changes

Due to unforseen circumstances, we currently do not have the time required to follow through with individual sales. Family concerns are going to be taking me away from home for significant amounts of time over the next few months, so we have decided that for 2016 we need to focus on selling our reptiles only at Reptile Expos.

We aren't going anywhere and we have a fantastic breeding season lined up, but we just need to focus on family, our animals, and the reptile expos for the next few months.

Thanks for understanding!

Blue tongue skinks!

We are excited to let you know that although we didn't update this website much in 2015, things were still happening at The Crested Castle!

We had a great year with our crested geckos, producing some absolutely gorgeous babies. We will continue with some of our previous pairs and are switching things up with some new comers to our crested family. Our 2016 breeding pairs will be updated in a post within the next few weeks.

The biggest news is that we have spent 2015 working on expanding our blue tongue skink family. They are an incredible reptile that we adore and we have decided to begin the adventure of breeding them! We especially like the merauke blue tongues and will be working with this species. Merauke's are notoriously hard to breed and birth in captivity, with only a handful (or less) being both bred and born in Canada. We are up to the challenge.



So far we have one confirmed male (Meatlug, in the photo above), one suspected male (Stormy, on the right) and a highly suspected female (Sasha, photo below). We are currently teaming up with Mel's Exotics in Winnipeg to determine if a merauke in Winnipeg is indeed a female, as advertised. If Mel determines that Charlie is a female (or even if she can't confirm any gender), then Charlie will be coming here to round out our blue tongue family at 4 beautiful meraukes.

We have witnessed some interest between Meatlug and Sasha this week, but no full mating yet at this point. If all goes as hoped, we could be announcing blue tongue babies in early summer. It's our dream, but we also know that it could take a few years to get all the breeding kinks workout out with this species. We will definitely keep this page updated with our merauke breeding adventure!

Working hard

We have been working hard at keeping our Facebook page up to date and tend to neglect this page. We know that some of you do not use Facebook and we will try really hard to keep this website more current.

Just this past month we were approved as retailers of Clark's Gecko Diet. Our geckos love this diet and we have heard many times over that it pairs well with Pangea. So, these will be the main 2 diets that we will keep in stock. If we don't have it in, we can always order it so please contact us if you are looking for gecko food.

 

We are heading to Edmonton, AB this weekend to take in the Reptile Expo and are really excited about it. Hopefully there will a table cancellation and we can be vendors, but if not we will thoroughly enjoy the experience of attending. 

October 10 and 11 is our first Reptile Expo in Saskatoon, SK! We will be vending there and are looking forward to meeting so many herpers in our Province whose names we recognize, but we have never met. It will be a great weekend. We will have cresteds for sale along with Clark's Gecko Diet and some reptile harnesses that we are in the process of making. Hope to see you there.

So, we have a busy first half of October. Once the Expos are done, we will completely update this page with cresteds that are still available and photos of the expos. There is a lot of work that goes into getting ready for an expo, so we will not be selling anything from now until we are back on October 12th. 

It was a very busy day around The Crested Castle today. 3 more of our hatchlings moved to their new homes and we are thrilled with every single home. Each of them will be well loved and cared for.

We only have 4 hatchlings/juveniles from 2014 still available. We do have 6 holdbacks though and will likely be releasing 4 of them this summer, when we can sex them.