Marking Hatchlings

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Originally Posted by RichsBallPythons

Currently what i use fore EVERY snake the day they are hatched and sexed.

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Yes I know, I use the same thing, in fact I bought 200 of each these blue and the pink feeder cards from you back in May.

I am just trying to figure out in a special circumstance where the BP hatchling are together and you would need to identify a individual if it would hurt anything to put a small mark on one with a paint marker. I had seen another breeder doing it on youtube and wanted to make sure it wouldn't hurt the snake and would come off with the shed like they said.

The paint wont harm anything as it wont be absorbed. But with problem feeding snakes you want them housed separately from the others. But by time most hatchlings shed they are moved to their own setups and offered first meal.

I remove my babies from the incubator as soon as they are out of the egg--I sex, weigh, and put them into individual bins in a hatchling rack, and set up their record. I do not leave hatchlings loose in the incubator once they leave they leave the egg, and I do not wait until they are all hatched before I remove the ones that have.

It seems absurdly risky to even talk about keeping hatchlings together once they have hatched, much less once they start eating. That is how cannibalism occurs.

So, my advice is--separate the hatchlings, there is no good reason they should all be together once they're out of the egg. You don't have to mark them, because you should mark their bin.

use those water soluable markers that are made for baby humans