My First Clutch! Major DUW

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! :banana:

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:

http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f.../June11020.jpg

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. :please:

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):
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...c/IMG_4774.jpg

And here's everyone this morning:

Female Normal
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...e/IMG_4790.jpg


Male Normal
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...e/IMG_4791.jpg


Male Fire 1
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...e/IMG_4792.jpg


Male Fire 2
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...e/IMG_4793.jpg


Female Pastel
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...e/IMG_4794.jpg


Female Fire 1 (this girl is hot!)
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...e/IMG_4795.jpg


Female Fire 2
http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/f...e/IMG_4796.jpg


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! :gj:

Congrats!!!
adam jeffery

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

Nice gj

Good job. They all came out beautiful

Big Congrats! :gj:

A Labyrinth fan? :D

Congrats!

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

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

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Originally Posted by Shadera

A Labyrinth fan? :D

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Heck yeah! Isn't everyone??

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

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