A clutch I definitely won't forget! When bad odds finally turn good...

[rascal_rascal_99]

There's still a joke with some of my friends that I don't know how to hatch anything but normals after last year...I didn't have bad odds, I got shut out a couple of times, I had no odds (two 7 egg clutchs, from inc dom males x normal females, 14 normals)...well this season it turned around some. One clutch a silver bullet x pastel gave me one cinny, one sterling and six pewters...wanting to make pewters was a huge part of why I even bought the bullet, I just think they're awesome looking.

The dream clutch though, was a hypo pastel male, to a female that I recieved as a pastel het hypo and possible low expression enchi. I wrote her off awhile back as having enchi in her, just didn't think it was there as she matured. I got 6 eggs out of the pairing and apparently she was determined to prove me wrong about the enchi gene not being there...I had written it off being there in my head to the point that I didn't even see it right in front of me until someone pointed it out...actually it was just a comment "check out the cool reduced pattern banding on that pastel!"...and I was even missing the four leaf clover head stamp on it, which you don't get much more of a neon sign saying what a morph is than that...but I'd written it off in my head so I totally missed it.

Well to get to the clutch, as I said, the female was determined to prove me wrong about her not being enchi...six eggs, six enchis. One of the clutches I missed on last year btw, was a enchi x normal and got seven eggs, seven normals. I guess here are the missing enchis I should have had last year, I'll take it! On the hypo gene, hypo x het, I went five out of six...awesome! The pastel x pastel part, I got three pastels and three supers...the numbers you would expect and hope for out of a pastel x super pairing.

Final breakdown, on top center of the pic is a pastel enchi het hypo...the two outside of that one are two hypo pastel enchis...and all three across the bottom of the pic are super pastel hypo enchis. I realize the pic isn't the greatest, I'm finding it being an extremely thin line from being too dark to washed out and this was the best I managed.



It took a random comment about the pastel from one friend, my girlfriend, and two more friends seeing them and telling me what I had before I actually let it sink in and believed what all I just hatched...I wish for everyone to have a clutch at some point that they feel like for them is just so amazing, that it's too good to be true.

Best of luck to everyone with their season!

[sho220]

two 7 egg clutchs, from inc dom males x normal females, 14 normals

Brutal. You were due for a change of luck. Congrats!

[ElliotNess]

Those are memorable clutches... congrats....

[coldbloodaddict]

Congrats on finally making more than Normals...Do you have better pics of the clutch and pics of the Pastel Enchi mom? Not really seeing any Enchi...

[joebad976]

Congrats....not sure you hit on 6 enchis but they look good nonetheless.

[rascal_rascal_99]

I totally understand them being questioned, they aren't as obvious reduced pattern banded as what we normally think of enchis as being...if you could see them in person, what's obvious is that they're all the same thing. The one that isn't hypo is the easiest to see the enchi in...and when I took them over to Tom Harbins house he has some enchis from a super enchi last season, comparing this clutch to that one it was easy to tell they're all enchi. I have another pic of the clutch I can post and I'll see what I have of the female...no new pics right now because everything is in shed.



This is mom, who as I said before I had written her off as being enchi, I didn't think she was...several of us were really on the fence about her when she first hatched.

[Doby71]

Congrats, can't ask for better odds.

[coldbloodaddict]

Yeah she is just a nice Pastel, no Enchi. Still a nice clutch though!


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[rascal_rascal_99]

Yeah she is just a nice Pastel, no Enchi. Still a nice clutch though!


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Thats what I thought also...but the babies in the clutch say differently. The father to the clutch is an older hypo pastel who has fathered a lot of clutches so it's definitely not him and this was a first time breeding for the female, so no chances of it coming from anywhere else. I think you should be able to see the enchi in the pastel easy enough in the last picture I posted of the clutch. Comparing the babies to ones my friend has from a super enchi x superblast pairing last season erased any question for us looking at them in person.

If anyone here is in the southeast, I am planning to have the whole clutch at the Dixie reptile show in Birmingham AL at the July show, you're welcome to come check them out in person.

[aalomon]

Beautiful babies, but I dont see any enchi either