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Smallest Ball python i ever hatched...10 grams!

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The title says it all, the egg was a little on the small side and had a nipple on the one end, i decided to let it go and see what happens, when i cut it i knew it was going to be small, i hatched out twin pastels about 3 years ago and they were 23 and 27 grams each, but this takes the cake at 10 grams.
Its a nice little albino male, nothing wrong with him...yet. Lets see how the first feeding goes, reminds me of my corn snake days.
Anyone ever have a smaller healthy ball python yet?
 

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Holy CRAP!! The picture with his siblings looks like he's hanging out with his parents! lol

I hatched one season before last that was pretty small. Even that one was closer to 40 grams, but it turned out to be one of my best feeders (took a little while to get to that point). Good luck with that baby!!
 
whoa, his head is almost the same size as the body, that's an itty bitty baby! I hope he thrives for you.
 
Wow that is so cute!
It's - a - itty bitty tenny weeny yellow poka dot, BP-enny ! Now that I have that tune running through your head! :rofl:

Sorry, I had to!!
 
Lol thanks for the comments. So far so good. Not much energy. I might try force feeding a pink in the next day or so as I really don't think he got enough energy from his yolk.
I was thinking of seeing this is a record. Finally my wife is proud of something I produced! Lol
 
I just hatched out a 22g baby and thought that was small. Looks like you beat the record, Bob Clark hatched out a 16g baby. Believe it was a ghost female. Congrats!
 
Don't know if this applies to BP, but I have a very small boa species which are normally 9 - 12 gm at birth and are often too small to take regular food (geckos) at first, so I feed them tails to start them off... just in case whole pinkies look too massive next to your midget there!

Good luck.
 
he is soooo cute! :) I hope he does well. Im just trying to even imagine how small that would be in my hand......pretty small
 
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