Maternally Incubating Again =)

My girls are just really laid back, I guess? I don't handle them alot, but I do check in on them fairly regularly and they're accustomed to me messing around in their tubs for spot cleaning and water changing. Me checking out their clutches is just one more nuisance to put up with, I guess. :rolleyes: The only one that gave me any problems was my older female, Dewshine, and that was because she was going into a shed cycle and I didn't realize it. :oops: She would puff up and hiss so loudly that I jumped a few times when candling her eggs a week or so before they actually started pipping. Poor thing had to deal with being deep in blue while her clutch was hatching out. lol

Here's a candling shot of each egg. Currently on day 20.


http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/3860/cimg6036.jpg

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4797/cimg6033wv.jpg

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/1082/cimg6034k.jpg

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/9602/cimg6035p.jpg


I tried to get video but the quality was really lousy. I can't figure out what settings I was using on the other candling videos and everything is so blurry that it would just give you a headache to watch it. I only caught a glimpse of one baby moving while I was candling, too. It fluttered just momentarily and then stayed so low in the egg that I really couldn't see anything else besides its outline. *sigh* I'll try again in another week or so and hopefully catch them at a more active point during the day. ;)


Can someone please remind me at what point during incubation does pattern begin to develop?

Day 35, I believe I read that on another post

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Originally Posted by llovelace

Day 35, I believe I read that on another post

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Thanks! I know I'm going to be anxiously looking for possible pieds when candling this clutch. :P

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Originally Posted by Quiet Tempest

Can someone please remind me at what point during incubation does pattern begin to develop?

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Sweet pics :gj:

Here is day 30ish :nerd:
http://i580.photobucket.com/albums/s...g?t=1278987382

Thanks much! Now I'm going to be straining even harder to see what's in there ten days from now. lol

You will be able to tell pieds for sure by the sudden void of pattern and or erratic pattern. You need to get pretty low on the egg in the beginning to see the snake.

How fun :clap:

Between the blurred images and Kyriel sticking her head into almost every video clip I got last night, it's really hard to say what's what... I don't want to get my hopes up, but I think I saw what looked like possible pied patterns in a couple of the eggs. Of course, they may have been laying belly up and I just didn't see the dark areas of pattern. It's still early yet and I don't want to go counting my babies before they've hatched just to be disappointed later. I'll check again in another week, I guess, and see if things are any easier to see under the light.

I wish it was September already. :rolleye2:


http://www.youtube.com/v/CmbetTk0I_I


http://www.youtube.com/v/nH_k1zJoIZY


http://www.youtube.com/v/hhZj70-ewSg


* I can't figure out how to embed video now..

Hi,

We added a little button to the right of the insert image button and it works the same way by creating a pop up window to put your link into when you click it.

It looks like this: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/image...itor/video.png


dr del

Very cool stuff, I hope you get your pied!