Snakes and Stones

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Originally Posted by Lord Sorril

...I like to think the woman on the note is pointing at the ball python. ;)

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It does look that way-:rofl:

Photo #249
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...ked_md4avm.jpg
WT ('Normal') with Brazilian Agate.

Breeders Note:
My clutch #1 finished hatching.
Parents: Pastel/VPI Axanthic/Het Hypo x Het VPI Axanthic/Het Hypo
8 eggs/8 hatchlings

The Outcome:
4 Pastels (Hets)
2 WTs (Hets)
1 Hypo (Het)
1 Pastel Axanthic

With a 50% chance of Axanthic, and only 1/8 produced...the probability of this happening (with a simple recessive) is about 1/32.
I bring it up because I have seen historically poor outcomes on my VPI Axanthic intercrosses (not backcrosses).
Just saying...:)

Haven't had much time to work on photos recently.

I checked my Clutch #7 today and I was so tired it took me a few minutes to figure out why I had a 'white' head showing. :)
(Pairing: Fire/Het Clown X Pastel/Het Clown)
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...dit_qkzc26.jpg
Of course my good luck did not hold out.
My Clutch#11 was/is almost completely consumed by mold. :tears:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._11_hrj6bp.jpg
I collected Clutch#12 at the same time after Clutch #11 and it is in the same incubator in mint condition...Which makes me suspect the eggs from #11 were bad from the start....
This marks the first entire ball python clutch I have lost in many years.

Well you got some real cuties, in spite of your bad luck with the other clutch. It happens... Congratulations for the ones you DID get.

I was starting to overthink last night that maybe that 'white head' could be some hidden gene I had missed.
Thankfully it was not the case today. :)
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...ked_pck7fm.jpg

:love::love::love: Cuties!

When I looked at the pictures of the eggs, I was searching for which one was a stone.

Very cute hatchlings!

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Originally Posted by Bogertophis

:love::love::love: Cuties!

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Originally Posted by Argentum

Very cute hatchlings!

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Thank you, Thank you! The odd gods denied many of my axanthic crosses this year, but, gave me many more clowns than expected.

Photo #250
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...zed_kit3mv.jpg
Brazilian Agate with a Mojave Het Ghost.
The stone has many little irregularities in the patterning which I initially tried to grind out, but, those little squiggle lines are in the stone itself.

Alternate Angle:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...oto_t9qyoc.jpg

"Send in the clowns..." :D ;)

Photo #251
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...ked_jq2u9a.jpg
Some more local rocks and a 'WT'.
I put 'WT' in quotes because any genes with less than a 50% probability I don't keep track of...:)