Our first clutch!

I know no one cares and you're all sick to death of seeing eggs, but I'm just so damned excited! :banana::banana: This is our first (intentional) clutch. She was bred mostly to a pastel and a spider, but did lock twice with our albino boy right before ovulation. She's supposedly het albino, so here's hoping for some tremendous luck!


She never really laid inverted or anything throughout post-ovulation, but I caught her re-arranging her eggs last night

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...g/IMG_2093.jpg


Found this about 30 mins ago :gj:

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...g/IMG_2102.jpg


http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...g/IMG_2106.jpg


Just over 100 grams each :banana:

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...g/IMG_2107.jpg

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...g/IMG_2110.jpg

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...g/IMG_2111.jpg

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...g/IMG_2116.jpg



Thanks for enduring my excitement! :fest:

Congrats and I wish you the best of luck in your pairing......BTW I still love seeing eggs....:D

congrats. i have my first clutch incubating as well. i definitely understand the excitement. good luck with your clutch.

Congrats and good luck! And I like seeing eggs as well...that incubator looks familiar, but mines a Haier!

Love the pictures of moms hugging the eggs. Congrats!

Congrats :D

How can anyone possibly be sick of seeing snakes and eggs?? ;) Congrats!

Some of us are newer and don't mind eggs at all :) Congrats!

good looking eggs! Good luck!

wohoo! Good Luck pretty mama there!

nice Eggs!

Congrats and good luck! :gj:

Thanks guys! Only 59 days to go :D

Congrats on your 1st clutch hopefully you see some white/pink noses looking at you in 55 days or so...:gj:

Day 39 candling. Starting to see some patterns! The first one looks interesting...pastel? Not sure about the other one. Definitely not the albinos that I wanted to see :rolleyes:


http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...g/IMG_2361.jpg


http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...g/IMG_2360.jpg


Hopefully they hatch okay because I don't think my humidity is right at all. I just added some more water, so we'll see I guess.

Second pic looks like a spider

Mmm yes it does ;)

That first one definitely doesn't look normal to me though.. Double sired clutch?

could be a pastel

It's soooooo exciting, isn't it!! :)

Very! It's hard not to sit in there all day candling them.

Great pictures :). I cut our small clutch Sunday, got a spider! Hope you get a few too!!

Placing the bets and hoping a spider crawls out from one of those eggs ! ;)

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Placing the bets and hoping a spider crawls out from one of those eggs ! ;)

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I bet you are, lol. Take care of our boy! That was actually our first sale today and it was a bit sad to let him go. :tears:

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Originally Posted by spitzu

I bet you are, lol. Take care of our boy! That was actually our first sale today and it was a bit sad to let him go. :tears:

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He's going into a 4x2x18" showcase cage, he'll be well taken care of indeed ;)

Well we broke down and cut one. It's only day 48... but we could not wait any longer. Yes, I know that we're naughty.

We could not believe how big they are! From candling it looks like the snake only fills half the egg, but this one is actually huge!


http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...g/IMG_2375.jpg

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...g/IMG_2372.jpg



The plan is to wait and see if they start pipping before day 55 before we cut any others. We'll see :P

Check out this one's umbilical. I thought it was pretty cool.


http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...Mating/013.jpg


http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...Mating/018.jpg


And I think that is mold starting to grow? Is there anything I should be doing about that? I think the babies are only a day or two from coming out.

Big congrats to you! I am sure it is very exciting seeing as this is your first clutch! I know I would be super excited too!

I generally handle mold on any of my eggs by using a qtip and scraping it off gently, it seems to help a lot and so far has been very successful.

Holy FAT babies!


http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...Mating/007.jpg

Ummm why so fat!?!?!? That dosn't look good at all ....

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Ummm why so fat!?!?!? That dosn't look good at all ....

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I am wondering the same thing. Did you feed them already and they ate? If so, what in the world did you feed them? :O

No idea what the deal is. I thought I saw a thread with similarly fat babies but I can't find it.

whoa.. I've never seen anything like this before. They're really swollen. Something's definetly "up" with these babies that doesn't look quite right. Are they squishy? Or do they feel extremely blown up like a balloon? I have a feeling it's the latter of the 2, but I still have no idea what this means.

I'm sure someone on here will be able to help you out. Just stay patient and keep em warm for now. I wish you the best of luck.

Found it. I hope my little guys pull through as well.

http://www.reptileradio.net/reptiler...d.php?p=604699

What temp were you incubating at?

89

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interesting feed on Reptileradio..

So are you going to attempt the warm baths? Or just let them be? And how soon will you do the baths if you are going to do them?

I'm sure they'll be fine! I wish you the best!

Maybe if the bellies harden up, but I think I'll just let them chill in the incubator for a few days and see how it goes.

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if someone says they love snakes then how can they be sick of seeing eggs. best of luck brother.

what incubator is that- link pleaseand/or brand name - thx

It's just a wine cooler.

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I hope they all pull through for you. :please:

Hope they're all doing okay..

Nope. All three of the pastels died last night. The normal is half the size that he was yesterday, but still pretty bloated.

Pretty crappy first clutch. I don't know if it's because I was having humidity problems early on or because I got impatient and cut too early, but those two mistakes won't be happening again. I've got two more clutches cooking so we'll see how it goes I guess.

So sorry to hear that :(. I don't know about humidity issues causing that but cutting early probably isn't the culprit. Could be due to just genetics too and no fault of your own.

im sorry to hear it....
I hope the other clutches go a lot better for you...

Ouch rough luck bro, hopefully the next ones turn out better!

Sorry to hear about the losses. Best wishes with the next clutches and future ones!