A young breeder, one good gecko, and a lot of heart.

Hi — I'm the breeder behind Heart & Hatch. I'm young, and I've loved animals for as long as I can remember. Crested geckos are what pulled me in for good: the endless morphs, the genetics puzzle, and the little bit of personality in every single one.

This project is me learning to do it properly, with my family alongside me. That means thoughtful pairings, patience over shortcuts, and only raising animals I'd be genuinely happy to keep myself. I'm treating it as a real business from day one — learning the husbandry, the genetics, and how to look after keepers who trust us with an animal.

Meet Otto

Otto is our founding gecko — a partial pinstripe extreme harlequin in black & white, about a year and a half old. She's healthy, full of character, and the animal everything else is being built around. She's the current face of Heart & Hatch, and she's not for sale — she's family, and our foundation.

Yes — she. We bought Otto as a male and called him "he" here for months. In July 2026 it became clear she's female. We've kept the name, corrected every page, and said so out loud rather than quietly editing it away. It also changed our plan completely: with Asta and Liva, that's three females and no male, so finding the right male is now the first real step toward a clutch of our own.

Meet the girls — Asta & Liva

The search paid off: Otto now has company. We brought home two females to build our first lines around — both healthy, well-started animals, settling in with a careful quarantine before any introductions.

• Liva — a lily white, the trait we'd hoped for most. A standout we'd love to build lines around.
• Asta — a super dalmatian on a sunny yellow base, with heavy, high-contrast spotting that stacks nicely with harlequin structure.

And a happy surprise arrived with them: the breeder we bought the girls from kindly gifted us a small clutch of eggs. They aren't from a pairing of ours — that's still ahead — but they incubated in our care, and in July 2026 two of them hatched. They're the first eggs we've ever incubated through to hatching, and we're learning a great deal from them. We claim no lineage for those two, and neither is for sale; they stay with us until they're genuinely well-started.

What we're building toward

Year one isn't about profit — it's about learning the process and earning trust. We'll grow every hatchling out until it's well-started, photograph it honestly, price it fairly to the market, and only send it home safely. Reputation compounds, and we're in this for the long run.

— raised with heart, by the breeder herself