Miracle clutch of 2010

Here’s what happened:

I started pairing our Lesser male with our female Mojave on february 1st of 2010, everything was going great and as planned with the snakes locking twice in the month of february until I started noticing that the Mojave girl just wasn’t acting right. One of the biggest benefits of being a small breeder is that I get to check on all my snakes on a daily basis and actually get to know them so when something is off I can pretty much catch it right away. Once i saw that something was wrong I made a decision that was very very difficult for me to make at that time seeing that a blue eye lucy was a dream snake for me to make, yes I know I could just go and buy one but it was something that I really wanted to hatch out myself. Well i did the right thing an simply pulled her from the breeding cycle, brought her to the vet who confirmed that she had a upper respiratory infection and proceeded to treat her with baytril for about 30 days or so. This all happened at the beginning of march and the last time the two snakes locked up was on march 1st.
Well after spending the next few weeks in quarantine I noticed that she was doing much better and was confident that I could bring her back into the snake room without any risk to the other animals. Keep in mind that this snake had not had a meal since 2/17/2010.
After I brought her up to the snake room i tried to feed her and she refused and then she went into her shed cycle with her skin coming off on may 28th. At this point I’m thinking what the heck is going on here, she looks very big for a girl thats been starving herself for months and low and behold on june 4th she laid 6 perfectly good eggs for me. Yes, you read that right. A week after her shed she went ahead and laid eggs. I couldn’t be happier but even though she gave me eggs I was nervous that they would go bad or that something would be wrong with the babies because of the treatment she had gone thru:please: . Here we are on July 28th and I am happy to tell you that out of the six eggs I got 1 normal, 2 mojaves and THREE BEL’s :banana: all in perfect health and doing great. I still can’t believe it, this is one of those things that makes this hobby so great for me. The feeling i got when those little guys came out of the egg is like nothing i can even describe for you here. I know they are just lucys to some but to me they are my miracle lucys and I just couldn’t be happier :D











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Congrats man. Awesome story.

Wow! Congratulations! I would be super stoked too if i were you... I cant wait to try breeding. :)

Congrats! What a story:D

Dang!

Great odds. :bow:

But where's the pic of the normal - they need love too ya know. :P


dr del

Great Story..:gj:

Thats totally awesome. I'd be completely stoked if I was you too. Great story, great clutch, and great odds. Congrats bro.

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Dang!

Great odds. :bow:

But where's the pic of the normal - they need love too ya know. :P


dr del

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LOL
You've seen my videos so you know i have enough normals to go around

they look great, I love Lucys, congrats on the odds

Great story :) Congrats on a beautiful clutch!

Congrats Raphy!
They look great!

Awesome stuff man! That Mojave on top is a serious scorcher!

Cheers,
-Matt

That's awesome and grats on the BELs:D

:banana: congrats! love the blushing on the other neonates... now send some of your luck over my way!!!

Fantastic!

I had two girls I had to pull out of rotation for breeding this year... one with a URI too, and another who had mouth rot (bad battle with a rodent). Happy to say, my mouth rot girl is fully recovered and finally took her first meal since the incident just last week! I still haven't gotten the URI one to eat again, but she is doing a lot better.

Congrats on the BELs!

Is that pretty little mojave on the top left male or female?

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Is that pretty little mojave on the top left male or female?

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don't know yet. ask me again in a few days and i'll let you know.

raphymartinez@maballs.net

Wow. That is awesome, and they are gorgeous! Congrats.

congrats god i cant wait to see if squish hatches sigh you all r so lucky to have little ones

Congrats :gj:

Wow Congrats Raphy, bet that made your season.... those mojaves aren't too shabby either... :gj:

Great odds ...amazing story and what stunning hot pink little babies u got there...

nice lucy's .... CONGRATS!
How is momma doing?

congrats man. im glad you hit the odds. love how the 2 mojos look so different. the one on the left looks awesome. the bels are awesome to

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Great odds ...amazing story and what stunning hot pink little babies u got there...

nice lucy's .... CONGRATS!
How is momma doing?

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She's doing great, already took a couple of meals and has gone back to normal.

Another angle, I will post new pics once they shed., Never thought a mojave could be so popular LOL :gj:

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ill take the top mojo:D

Beautiful clutch and great story :)

Wonderful! :taz:

Great story! I had a similar experience in '08 - everyone who breeds in this hobby deserves an experience like that. It really does feel great and more than offsets all of the disappointments along the way. Congrats.

Wow great things to those who wait huh?!
Give me some of that luck.. :O

congrats Raphy, they look great!

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congrats Raphy, they look great!

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THanx jben,

I'm pretty sure i met you at the last white plains show. Sorry i didn't stop to chat more but we were on our way out already.

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THanx jben,

I'm pretty sure i met you at the last white plains show. Sorry i didn't stop to chat more but we were on our way out already.

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Yeap, we did meet. It's all good bro, at least we said wassup. maybe next time we can chat.

Great story! Congrats on your clutch- and fabulous odds! Great side blushes on the mojos too! Is mamma doing well?
Congrats!

Are you SURE that the right Mojo, isnt a lesser? Look at the color difference, and even though it is has spots in its pattern, they do not exactly look like Mojave spots.

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Originally Posted by Beardedragon

Are you SURE that the right Mojo, isnt a lesser? Look at the color difference, and even though it is has spots in its pattern, they do not exactly look like Mojave spots.

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To be honnest at this point I don't really know. Let's wait for a shed and see how they look then. I'll make sure to post updated pics once they do.


Thank you to everyone for the compliments on this clutch, i am incredibly excited about it.

Wow, that is awesome, half coming out sweet BELs, you go buy a lottery ticket?

Congrats on an awesome clutch!:gj:

I was pretttty sure that was a lesser but I didn't wanna say anything until some one more experience chimed in. I'm still a n00b at identifying morphs, but I'm getting better!

WOW! Beautiful little babies and awesome story!

Awesome!!! Congrats!

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Are you SURE that the right Mojo, isnt a lesser? Look at the color difference, and even though it is has spots in its pattern, they do not exactly look like Mojave spots.

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I was thinking the same thing. I had to go back up and double check what he said he got. I was like hmm...

Can't wait to see post shed pics!

Congratulations! What a miracle indeed!

I wondered if this was the clutch from the sick girl! WOW! Awesome odds and some great looking babies! :gj: