My First Clutch! Major DUW

[MissMowgli]

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have hatched out my very first baby ball pythons, all healthy and happy and through their first shed!

Just for a backstory, I really goofed this up and was out of town for a couple of days when these guys were laid. When I arrived home, I found this:



Everyone on here was super helpful and encouraging, and I held out hope that they were going to be okay, since everyone had good veins, even the super-squished one on top. The rest of the eggs reinflated with good humidity, but that one never did, and I was always a little worried about it. Then, in July, we moved into our new house, and these guys had to come out of the incubator and into a cooler for an hour+ drive to the new place, so I was worried that would mess them up, too.

Just goes to show that these are highly-evolved, very adaptable snakes. All that trauma, and on Aug 13th, I came home from a party to find all 7 had hatched that day, all healthy, all perfect. This was from a Pastel x Fire breeding, and I'm a little bummed I didn't hit the combo, but I can't complain about the odds. They all finished shedding out yesterday, and I'm pretty sure that I ended up with 1.1 Normals, 2.2 Fires and 0.1 Pastel.

Without further ado, here's the whole clutch pre-shed (the large knot on the bottom left is two fires that were completely inseparable):


And here's everyone this morning:

Female Normal



Male Normal



Male Fire 1



Male Fire 2



Female Pastel



Female Fire 1 (this girl is hot!)



Female Fire 2



Thank you to everyone who's ever answered any of my noob questions and helped me get to this point. I really don't know how I would've done any of this without you guys. You rock!

[adamjeffery]

Congrats!!!
adam jeffery

[MojaveLesser]

Congrats!!! Ther first clutch is always one to remember.

[Fallen]

Nice gj

[mpkeelee]

Good job. They all came out beautiful

[PghBall]

Big Congrats!

[Shadera]

A Labyrinth fan?

Congrats!

[naturesbeautybreeder]

Congrats! Just be happy my first clutch was a big let down I bred 3 different males to a normals and out of 6 eggs I got 5.0 normals and one female cinny so you can't complain with what you got for a first clutch! Congrats again

[mjmendoza]

congrats on the great first clutch! i can't wait till i get my first clutch

[MissMowgli]

A Labyrinth fan?

Heck yeah! Isn't everyone??

I remember asking my mom why David Bowie's pants were all lumpy...