In our latest episode, we get to watch baby Gila monsters hatch from the egg! We also discuss incubation, hatchling care, and of course get to see some beautiful Gila monsters (Heloderma suspectum)! @goatsbysgilas
That is INCREDIBLY exciting!! I love that baby with the solid black bands. I've been out of the hobby for a few years and I'm diving back into the heloderms. It looks like you've done an amazing amount of meticulous work to get where you are. Congratulations!!
Ohhh thank you-this was great to watch and really helpful! I discovered a Gila monster living under one of my porches several months ago and I’ve become kind of obsessed with it.😂❤ I thought it was a boy, so I named him Chuck Norris, but now I’m not really sure… It’s been a particularly hot and dry summer here, with hardly any rain-so every couple weeks I do a “Chuck check” on him, to drop off a little dish of water and a dead mouse snack (if I happened to catch one in the barn on a Chuck check day…lol) But this last time that I checked, I am quite certain I saw something that looked like an egg down in Chuck’s little burrow!! So now I’m obsessively researching/watching videos about gilas, because I honestly don’t know very much about them (even though I’m from their natural habitat range)… Sorry for the long babbling comment!! I’m just super excited after watching your video, because I thought it was probably way too late in the year for Chuck to actually have any eggs/babies. But yours were hatching near Halloween of last year…so now I have my fingers crossed that I might get to see a tiny baby Gila monster in the next month or two!! ❤️🥹
That is so awesome thank you for replying! I would love to hear more about the potential nest as only one has been found so if you have one by you that is truly amazing. I would love to know more about the nest (size, depth, how many eggs, substrate), so please send me an email. Please do not put any location information as we do not want any poachers creeping about your place!
@@goatsbysgilas whoah! I had no idea it was *THAT* rare of a thing to see! Now I’ll be sure to keep an even closer eye on Chuck (ohhh or maybe I can setup some sort of video feed/livestream pointed at the entrance!🤔) Thank you! I really appreciate the warning about poachers! Because although I am pretty careful’ish with any personal location information I put on the internet-I genuinely would’ve never thought to be careful about potential poachers! Luckily, even if someone figured out my location, it would still be an insanely difficult (and dangerous) task for a poacher to steal anything. I live in an isolated agricultural community with only appx. 150 residents and a single road running through it… Nobody comes here unless they have a reason to, because it’s literally impossible for someone to just “accidentally” find their way here. It’s a massive, barely populated area and it’s incredibly easy to get seriously lost and find yourself in a potentially dangerous situation. The “icing on the cake” is that GPS navigation gets messed up and doesn’t work properly out here for some reason-so all visitors to the area need to be given very detailed/specific directions to where they are going (or be physically guided to their destination). Because of that- “outsider” vehicles are usually spotted within minutes (any time, day or night) and residents will start calling/texting each other to see who is expecting visitors and asking if we need to guide the person to where they’re going. It’s all kinda cute and also completely ridiculous.🤣 So, even if the poachers somehow made it through _that_ hurdle unseen, they would then be faced with 2 layers of electric fences, numerous security cameras, an alarm system, 4 large guard dogs and a very pissed off me (I swear I’m not a drug lord- there are legitimate reasons why I have such beefy security on my farm!🤣). Anyway, back to Chuck… In the next few days I’ll crawl under that porch and try to see if I can find out more details about the little burrow/nest and the possible egg situation, without causing Chuck any distress (since it’s suuuuper illegal to touch, annoy, step in their path and/or harass them in any way out here). I know it’s also probably illegal for me to give Chuck water and occasional mouse snacks….but I’m a Gila sucker and I guess I’ll just have to cross that bridge when I get there!😆❤️ (Annnnd once again, my comment is basically book length. Whoops!)
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