First baby of 2011

Well look who is taking a peek out of its egg :banana:. http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/k...yof2011001.jpg

What was the pairing? Congratz :)

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Originally Posted by llovelace

What was the pairing? Congratz :)

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Thanks! The father of both of my clutches is my pastel yellow belly male Samson(his pic is my avatar) and the mothers are normals.

The father is absolutely beautiful!! congrats! cant wait to see the little guys as more "pop" out:)

Welcome to the world, nose!

Really cool pic! Congrats!

Congrats!

congrats, I can't wait to hatch out my first ones....whenever my girl lays

Congrats :D

congrats on the new baby beautiful looking dad love yb combo's

Geez! You all are killing me. I have 51 days until I can cut. Gratz on the baby though.

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Originally Posted by KatieJohnson

The father is absolutely beautiful!! congrats! cant wait to see the little guys as more "pop" out:)

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Yea Samson is sweet looking and i hope his babies are as bright as he is

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Originally Posted by loonunit

Welcome to the world, nose!

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LOL

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Originally Posted by PghBall

Really cool pic! Congrats!

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Thanks

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Originally Posted by Cendalla

Congrats!

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Thanks

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Originally Posted by Paradox81

congrats, I can't wait to hatch out my first ones....whenever my girl lays

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It will happen :gj:

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Originally Posted by dragonmoon

Congrats :D

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Thanks

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Originally Posted by VicShell

congrats on the new baby beautiful looking dad love yb combo's

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Next season Samson has a YB female waiting for him.I am going for Pastel Ivories :D

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Originally Posted by LotsaBalls

Geez! You all are killing me. I have 51 days until I can cut. Gratz on the baby though.

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Sorry :P.The time will fly by :gj::gj:.

Congrats dude! There is nothing cuter then a baby snake poking it's little nose out of an egg!

Yay!

I never get tired of noses. :D

Congrats Joe.


dr del

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Originally Posted by ballpythonluvr

Congrats dude! There is nothing cuter then a baby snake poking it's little nose out of an egg!

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Yea and i was surprised when it never ducked back into the egg when i opened the lid.I think its going to be a spunky one :O

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Originally Posted by dr del

Yay!

I never get tired of noses. :D

Congrats Joe.


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I agree! :gj:

Sadly it climbed out of its egg and died :(.Its very weird looking and VERY skinny.So all 7 eggs failed to live somewhere along the incubation period they died.

Man, that stinks! Sorry to hear that.

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Originally Posted by PghBall

Man, that stinks! Sorry to hear that.

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Sadly its something we deal with though when breeding them

Oh no! I am very sad and sorry to hear this. :(

I'm so sorry that you lost the clutch.

The one good thing I see in all of this is that it would be majorly unusual for anything genetic to have caused each and every one of these babies to die. It seems to me that something other than inherited problems would be at fault.

If you can check everything and make sure that something isn't wrong in the incubation environment, I'd guess that next year you might end up with a bunch of healthy babies.

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Originally Posted by Redneck_Crow

I'm so sorry that you lost the clutch.

The one good thing I see in all of this is that it would be majorly unusual for anything genetic to have caused each and every one of these babies to die. It seems to me that something other than inherited problems would be at fault.

If you can check everything and make sure that something isn't wrong in the incubation environment, I'd guess that next year you might end up with a bunch of healthy babies.

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Well this clutch was doomed from the beggining.I used hatchrite(its garbage) and it caused the eggs to dry out before i realized what was going on.They were dimpled seriously and i could not correct the problem fast enough.I will NEVER use anything else but perlite or vermiculite ever again.In my years of breeding and keeping reptiles this is my largest loss :(.

I've only incubated one time. I used vermiculite and lost half the clutch. I think it might have been the incubator, though. I never could keep the temps in range without a bunch of adjustment.

After that I used the "mama snake" incubator. Odd as it seems, I've only lost 2 eggs using that method.

:( That really sucks that you lost all of them. Sounds like the issues I was having with hatchrite last year. The babies were really messed up. No eyes or small eyes, kinks, some didn't have the end of their tails, and their bellies were split open. This year I went substrateless using the hatchrite and I'm on day 30 something and all my eggs are going strong. Last year I would have lost at least 2 by now maybe 3.

Granted I revamped everything for my incubator, but I'm thinking hatchrite was the main problem. Last year I didn't have any issues with temps and this year the power has gone out twice already and everything is still going well.

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Originally Posted by SlitherinSisters

:( That really sucks that you lost all of them. Sounds like the issues I was having with hatchrite last year. The babies were really messed up. No eyes or small eyes, kinks, some didn't have the end of their tails, and their bellies were split open. This year I went substrateless using the hatchrite and I'm on day 30 something and all my eggs are going strong. Last year I would have lost at least 2 by now maybe 3.

Granted I revamped everything for my incubator, but I'm thinking hatchrite was the main problem. Last year I didn't have any issues with temps and this year the power has gone out twice already and everything is still going well.

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So your using hatchrite again? I will NEVER waste money on that garbage again! Yea the baby was weirdly shaped and VERY skinny.