Earthworks
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things have been really busy for me this year so i gave most of my small collection the year off. i only bred 2 of my females, a pastel and a hypo both to my fire hypo male...the hypo just b/c i love fire hypos and the pastel b/c i was hoping for some firefly female het hypos to breed back to a humblebee in a few years and go for killer fire bee hypos. unfortunately i was in mexico and missed the hypos lay by just a few days but the eggs didnt make it b/c humidity is virtually impossible to control out of an incubator here (im assuming this was the cause) ...fortunately my pastel girl made up for it dropping her usual 12 egg mega clutch.
even with incubation i lost 2 normals to humidity issues and a suspected fire that came out still attached yet failed to absorb yolk.
here are the parents...the pastel is a reallly nice nerd lemon shes just getting outstaged here by the neon fire hypo:
and a shot of dad:
heres the clutch...i got to them just too late and they had set which contributed to the humidity issues for the 2 topmost eggs b/c the stacked structure:
here are 8 of the 9 that made it. the 9th came out after this shot and is very clearly a fire...almost looks hypo. some of these have been a headache trying to distinguish fire vs normal as i am not very experienced with the gene:
the straggler that didnt make the group shot:
some of the better fire examples:
very strange was that the pastel gene only popped up in 2 snakes of the 12!? this pastel is nice and blushed out head but im calling it just a pastel because of the comparison with the firefly that popped out:
this is the pastel beside the firefly: (pastel on right)
i was hoping for 2 but was still pumped up about this one poking out: (firefly)
as usual the pics dont do the firefly justice she came out like a very pale easter egg yellow on chocolate with great clean contrast:
ill be holding back 4 of these, the pastel and firefly females, my favorite of the fires (a female and the runt of the group at a small 41g hatch) and the one suspected normal but possible fire also female.
have some big plans for 2014 with some of my double and triple gene holdback females getting up over 1200gs now and a cool new male to work with. thx for checking out my clutch, comments/input welcome.
even with incubation i lost 2 normals to humidity issues and a suspected fire that came out still attached yet failed to absorb yolk.
here are the parents...the pastel is a reallly nice nerd lemon shes just getting outstaged here by the neon fire hypo:
and a shot of dad:
heres the clutch...i got to them just too late and they had set which contributed to the humidity issues for the 2 topmost eggs b/c the stacked structure:
here are 8 of the 9 that made it. the 9th came out after this shot and is very clearly a fire...almost looks hypo. some of these have been a headache trying to distinguish fire vs normal as i am not very experienced with the gene:
the straggler that didnt make the group shot:
some of the better fire examples:
very strange was that the pastel gene only popped up in 2 snakes of the 12!? this pastel is nice and blushed out head but im calling it just a pastel because of the comparison with the firefly that popped out:
this is the pastel beside the firefly: (pastel on right)
i was hoping for 2 but was still pumped up about this one poking out: (firefly)
as usual the pics dont do the firefly justice she came out like a very pale easter egg yellow on chocolate with great clean contrast:
ill be holding back 4 of these, the pastel and firefly females, my favorite of the fires (a female and the runt of the group at a small 41g hatch) and the one suspected normal but possible fire also female.
have some big plans for 2014 with some of my double and triple gene holdback females getting up over 1200gs now and a cool new male to work with. thx for checking out my clutch, comments/input welcome.
