Hatching Time!

[jguyer1]

The first clutch of Corns has begun to hatch.

That there is a Blizzard!

 

[jguyer1]

Here's a nice baby pile of Okeetees, Reverse Okeetees, Charcoals, and Blizzards

 

[TheFragginDragon]

Congrats!! Beautiful looking babies ya got there!

 

[reptile_jones]

That is a nice looking group of babies!!!

 

[jguyer1]

The Striped Motley X Butter Motley clutch has started hatching. I can't see the patterns yet, but all of these should be Motleys and Striped Motleys all het for Butter.

 

[jguyer1]

My Creamscicle clutch has begun to hatch. Unfortunately for some unknown reason many of the eggs in this clutch went bad during incubation. This clutch was incubated exactly like the others so I don't know what happened.

Now this is strange. Early on in the incubation this growth of fungus appeared on this one egg. It is nothing like the kind of mold that is usually seen on eggs when they go bad. I left it alone just to see what would happen. Well, that particular egg has pipped and as far as I can tell, the hatchling inside looks good. Wierd.

 

[jguyer1]

The Striped Motley X Butter Motley clutch has finished hatching.

Here's some baby pile shots:

They all turned out to be Motleys het Butter. Hatch rate was 19 out of 20 eggs.

 

[jguyer1]

The clutch from my quad het female (Amel, Anery, Hypo, Motley) has begun to hatch.

The whole purpose of this breeding was to find out if my big 7yr old Normal male had anything hidden in his genotype or not.

Apparently he's het Amel.

 

[jguyer1]

I hope that I don't find this very often. This is a definite first for me:

My Creamscicles are still hatching and I found a partially digested regurgitated Cream in the box. One of the others had to have grabbed and eaten a sibling just as soon as it came out of the egg! I have no idea who the culprit is, but we've got a cannibal Corn!

 

[jguyer1]

The first clutch of Outcross Blood X Outcross Blood has begun to hatch. 1/4 of these should be Bloodreds. I also just found out that the Grandfather to these is het Amel, so we might have a shot at some Fires out of this clutch.

 

[jguyer1]

The Ghost X Anery clutch has begun to pop open.

The Ghost is het Amel, The Anery mom is supposedly a multi het. We'll see I suppose.

 

[jguyer1]

The clutch from my quad het female has finished hatching and I've sorted out the babies. I'm happy to report that we got 18 hatchlings out of 18 eggs in this clutch. Also, the Normal Male that I bred to the quad het is now a known het Amel.

The funny thing is the Amels that came out of this pairing. They are bright orange and look like Creamscicles but there is no Emoryi blood present. These are pure Corn.

 

[jguyer1]

Had a run of bad luck with the Creamscicles.

Only 7 out of 20 eggs even hatched. Of those, not one, but two of them drug unformed twins out of the egg with them. Then one of the seven was found dead today for no apparant reason. Then of the remaining six, five of them were deformed with bellies not together and guts coming out. One of those even already had maggots up inside the abdominal cavity while it was alive. Those five became Kingsnake food and I ended up with only one healthy looking baby out of the whole mess.

I don't think that I'll pair that male with that female ever again.

 

[jguyer1]

Here's a baby pile of one Bloodred with some Outcrosses and some Normals:

Here's a view of the first Bloodred I ever hatched:

The same day that I sorted that clutch, the second clutch of possible Bloodreds started hatching!

And the first baby to break the confines of its egg is a Bloodred!

 

[jguyer1]

Pairing up that Ghost het Amel to that multi-het Anery turned out to be a great pairing!

Here's a baby pile of 2 Ghost Motleys, 2 Anery Motleys, 1 Ghost, 2 Snows, and 2 Anerys:

 

[jguyer1]

The first clutch out of my Lavender Motley project started popping a couple of days ago. I wanted to wait until I saw a Lavender poking its head out of an egg before I took the photos.

 

[jguyer1]

Now this is a very pleasent surprise!!!

Out of my second Outcross X Outcross pairing, the clutch hatched an unusually high number of Bloodreds and three Hypo Bloodreds!!!!!

I hatched out both parents and have no idea where the Hypomelanism came from, but I'm not complaining!

Here's some baby pile shots of Hypo Bloodreds, Bloodreds, Outcrosses, and Normals:

 

[jguyer1]

Those orange colored Amels that I hatched that came out of the egg looking like Creamscicles have undergone quite a color change during their first shed. Now they are all a pretty bright red. Are these Flourescents?

 

[jguyer1]

The first clutch of the Lavender Motley project has been sorted.

I didn't get any Lavender Motleys out of this but I did get this Zig Zag Lavender:

Unfortunately though it has a bit of a spine kink. I'm going to hold onto it for a bit and see if it grows out of it.


We still have one more clutch of possible Lavender Mots to go that should start popping at any time and also a couple of doubleclutches. I hatched Lavender Motleys last year and we will get them again this year!

 

[reptile_jones]

That is a nice group of babies!!! What are the Outcross?