Shots of my new babies, Lesser x Pastel

[Oxylepy]

A little early as this is the only one I have taken pictures of. It's absolutely insane as the stripe is unbroken from the eyebrows/jaw to the tail.

[WmHrbst]

Very unique! Imo, there are more genes in play :-)

[Oxylepy]

I keep looking at the babies and a couple are lessers obviously, then one is a normal, but this one and the other one blow the others which look like lesser pastels out of the water. 9 eggs, 1 was bad, the mother accidentily crushed the third one out of the egg, then there was a normal, 2 that were definitely lessers, this one and its sibling, and the rest aren't catelogued yet (the last three were just yesterday and I haven't messed with them but they're somewhere between lesser and lesser pastels).

Honestly when I clipped the eggs after the one snake died and I took the eggs and babies from the mother, my initial impression of this one and its sibling were that they may be platty daddy pastels

[Oxylepy]

A few more shots of the same snake.







Bonus: The twins in their egg:



Bonus 2: First snake out (before I removed them from their mother)

[AlyssaLu]

Beautiful snake! But I have a question for you, I'm going to start getting into breeding and I noticed in your "Bonus 2" you said before you removed them from their mother, do you leave the eggs with her? Sorry if this is stupid but I was just wondering because I'm looking for different ways of breeding. Thank you.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Oxylepy]

Maternal incubation is a safe means of incubating your eggs.

Pros-
She will regulate both the temperature and humidity (upwards only for both, can't reduce them)
She won't be as stressed out if she incubates them
There is a high rate of success and it's cheap (you don't need to make/buy an incubator)

Cons-
The mother may not eat (I didn't even offer her food after she laid the eggs, and in total I think she stopped eating for 9 months)
If she does it may damage the eggs
Accidents happen and sometimes babies may not survive (the third snake which was a normal had its neck broken, which may have been from her reacting to me checking on her, no idea, but I had a corpse with a broken neck, which was depressing)

[Oxylepy]

Alright, now for the mass photo post. I did this with a daylight bulb in a clamp lamp with a white sheet of paper down. I may end up doing this again with a black shirt as the background to really show off the fading on the snakes. The snakes are in their hatching order, the third snake out of the egg is not present in the pictures for obvious reasons stated earlier.

Lesser 1 ~55g (first snake out, post shed)



Normal ~52g (second snake out, post blue phase of shed, pre-shed):



Lesser 2 ~52g (in blue phase of shed)



Lesser Pastel 1 ~60g (pre-shed, insane stripe)




Lesser Pastel 2 ~50g (pre-shed)



Lesser or Lesser Pastel 48g (not sure, pre-shed)




The Twins, Lesser or Lesser Pastel ~32g and ~22g (Not sure, pre-shed)







I'm not sure what the last 3 are, as they are somewhere between one of the lessers, and one of the lesser pastels, so if anyone is good at identifying, helping me figure out what they are would be appreciated.

Thanks for looking

[Oxylepy]

Post 3 consecutively (sorry) and now with darker photos. Same setup as before, but on a faded black shirt. Sorry about the blur

Lesser 1 ~55g (first snake out, post shed)



Normal ~52g (second snake out, post blue phase of shed, pre-shed):



Lesser 2 ~52g (in blue phase of shed)



Lesser Pastel 1 ~60g (pre-shed, insane stripe)



Lesser Pastel 2 ~50g (pre-shed)



Lesser or Lesser Pastel 48g (not sure, pre-shed)



The Twins, Lesser or Lesser Pastel ~32g and ~22g (Not sure, pre-shed)




I'm not sure what the last 3 are, as they are somewhere between one of the lessers, and one of the lesser pastels, so if anyone is good at identifying, helping me figure out what they are would be appreciated.

Thanks for looking

[Ax01]

whatta cool clutch! twins and two fully striped BP's! congrats!

by the way, what do the parents look like?

[Oxylepy]

Only one of them has a complete stripe, I can understand if I confused you, though. All of them have great stripes, but only the first Lesser Pastel's is unbroken on it's back. The next closest are the twins which each have 1 break, although they don't have little helmets like the first Lesser Pastel.

As for the parents, the mother is in Blue, but here she is, though she didn't want to sit still:



And the father is the lesser, and here he is in all his chubby glory: