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Elemental Exotic's most anticipated pairing!

Wow! Congrats on the beautiful babies.... I'm jealous!
My pulchra were hooked up today so I'm hoping to do as well as you did.
 

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We went to Montana yesterday for a real quick trip to see the family and got back this afternoon. Serenity had a very nice present for us, five pretty eggs about 4 days sooner than I'd been expecting them!

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I wasn't sure they would be the same length incubation, the first clutch varied in temp quite a bit, from 76 degrees to 80 degrees but usually around 77 to 79, this one was pretty stable at 78 degrees the whole way. But I did have a feeling they would start hatching today.
 
Just checked on them again and one other egg has pipped.

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But wait, what is that I see in the first egg? I do believe those are two little noses!! Squee! Twins! (please don't be conjoined!)

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Certainly looks like it! That was the first egg to pip and there was just one nose out this morning but now there are two noses poked out of that egg.
 
The first twin was out this morning, the other one was still sitting the egg. But as far as I could tell, it looked well formed too and nothing wrong with it.

So here is the first tiny twin at 5 grams.

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The last remaining egg pipped last night. This morning two of the babies were out. Baby pile!

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Baby #4 at a nice hefty 10 grams. I was very impressed by how calm this one is. The whole clutch so far has been calmer than the first one, I've been musked a few times but no one has bitten me yet, although it's still early days and I'm sure that will change!

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Baby #5 at 9 grams. Little wiggly but also quite calm at the moment.

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