Cheryl Marchek AKA JM
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So~ I've not been keeping up with the morphs lately~ and have no idea what is hatching here. I'm pretty excited about them~ the only Unexpected hatches I get are when I breed a known het to a morph and get all normals (it's happened more than once~ always an unpleasant surprise). So this time I bred a known het to a visual and.....
Purplish babies are hatching?! Wow~ what are those??
So let me tell you the history of the parents of this clutch and maybe some of you more knowledgeable can figure out what I've got hatching.
So in Feb 2007 I purchased a 4 year old het piebald female from a young man who had purchased her originally from Tony Hurt of Snake evolutions. I got a picture ID of the female when she was a neonate from Tony Hurt and proceeded with the purchase. Days after I purchased her Tony Hurts genetics where questioned on the BOI and I thought I'd been ripped off again. So I was disappointed~ but not one to give up easily~ I sent her off on a breeding loan to Heather (user name Ladyohh on fauna). Heather produced two pieds on her when bred to her pied male! Woot~ my first visual! Two females~ Heather kept one and she sent me the other along with the adult females I had sent to her. Fast forward a few years that female pied Heather produced was bred my original het pied male (purchased from Kahl in 2002) and in 2011 she produced a pied male that I kept. Again fast forward~ this year 2013 I bred the original Het Pied female that was produced by Tony Hurt in 2003 to her grandson who is a visual pied and they produced a clutch of 7 eggs laid on 8-22-13. I was expecting those eggs to begin pipping around 10-17 and for there to be either 50% pieds in there or all normal hets (it's happened before). So I was surprised and disappointed when I saw them pipping on 10-10. It's not that the incubator is too hot as another clutch of albinos laid on 8-14 was also pipping on 10-10 just when I expected them to. For some reason these babies just pipped a week early and two of them shot right out of the eggs before I even realized they were pipping and died (didn't absorb their yolk sacs). Lost a normal and a pied. So I'm disappointed but when I pull the bodies out I noticed......
Two of the eggs are pipping something different! At this point another normal and another pied have hatched and they look fat so I'm hoping they have absorbed their yolks despite being early~ I left them in the egg container and I'm trying not to disturb the last two as I'd like them to stay in the egg absorbing the yolk as long as possible... But I did snap a couple pics~ would you have a look at those heads? Whats popping out? Whatever it is I'm guessing it's a hidden het off the original Het pied female produced by Tony Hurt in 2003.
Any guesses whats up?
Purplish babies are hatching?! Wow~ what are those??
So let me tell you the history of the parents of this clutch and maybe some of you more knowledgeable can figure out what I've got hatching.
So in Feb 2007 I purchased a 4 year old het piebald female from a young man who had purchased her originally from Tony Hurt of Snake evolutions. I got a picture ID of the female when she was a neonate from Tony Hurt and proceeded with the purchase. Days after I purchased her Tony Hurts genetics where questioned on the BOI and I thought I'd been ripped off again. So I was disappointed~ but not one to give up easily~ I sent her off on a breeding loan to Heather (user name Ladyohh on fauna). Heather produced two pieds on her when bred to her pied male! Woot~ my first visual! Two females~ Heather kept one and she sent me the other along with the adult females I had sent to her. Fast forward a few years that female pied Heather produced was bred my original het pied male (purchased from Kahl in 2002) and in 2011 she produced a pied male that I kept. Again fast forward~ this year 2013 I bred the original Het Pied female that was produced by Tony Hurt in 2003 to her grandson who is a visual pied and they produced a clutch of 7 eggs laid on 8-22-13. I was expecting those eggs to begin pipping around 10-17 and for there to be either 50% pieds in there or all normal hets (it's happened before). So I was surprised and disappointed when I saw them pipping on 10-10. It's not that the incubator is too hot as another clutch of albinos laid on 8-14 was also pipping on 10-10 just when I expected them to. For some reason these babies just pipped a week early and two of them shot right out of the eggs before I even realized they were pipping and died (didn't absorb their yolk sacs). Lost a normal and a pied. So I'm disappointed but when I pull the bodies out I noticed......
Two of the eggs are pipping something different! At this point another normal and another pied have hatched and they look fat so I'm hoping they have absorbed their yolks despite being early~ I left them in the egg container and I'm trying not to disturb the last two as I'd like them to stay in the egg absorbing the yolk as long as possible... But I did snap a couple pics~ would you have a look at those heads? Whats popping out? Whatever it is I'm guessing it's a hidden het off the original Het pied female produced by Tony Hurt in 2003.
Any guesses whats up?
Look like Hypo Pieds, even better if they are Caramel Pieds IMO
