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7Snakes Breeding Season 2019
I'd like to share my breeding plans and progress this year, so instead of posting random bits and pieces every time a relevant thread came up I decided to make my own. To start, here are some recent pairings I made over the winter that I think I might get eggs from this year.
Confirmed locks:
Pastel x Green Pastel
Enchi Pied x Mojave
Enchi Pied x Cinnamon het Pied
Enchi Pied x Black Pastel het Pied
Pairied, but have not witnessed a lock:
Yellowbelly het Pied x Black Pastel het Pied
Yellowbelly het Pied x Normal het Pied
Pied x Mojave
Pied x Cinnamon het Pied
These guys just didn't seem up to the task, so I ended up putting my Enchi Pied in with most of them.
First pairing of 2019:
Pied x Normal het Pied (no locks witnessed, but there wre signs of activity)
Trying to give this guy another chance. I thought maybe a different girl would help.
First new pairing of 2019:
Leopard Spider poss Yb, 66% ph Pied x Pastel YB? het Pied
This guy just got up to size and he's trying so hard... he just can't seem to figure out where her cloaca is, lol
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/16liepz.jpg
I appreciate his enthusiasm though, considering that two of my boys are sitting around like lumps on logs.
He'll figure it out eventually.
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Update: The day after I posted this I checked in on my female western hognose and she was HUGE. Pretty sure it was an ovy. It's a shame I didn't get a good picture. I'm excited though, she may lay my first eggs of the year. None of my BP girls have gone yet.
Also, the little dude figured it out!
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/29axu01.jpg
Lucky for me, he's a quick learner. They're gonna make some gorgeous babies.
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A few more locks:
Enchi Pied x Mojave
Enchi Pied x Black Pastel het Pied
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/1zokgvr.jpg
Really excited for these two. Their babies are going to look great.
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Got another lock from these two a few days ago, Enchi Pied x Mojave:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/2rvzfb9.jpg
She's been doing a lot of building and bowl wrapping, so I have positive expectations for these two.
Tub is only bare because they like to snuggle under the blankets. I had to lift the paper to get a pic.
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Re: 7Snakes Breeding Season 2019
Looks like some exciting things are coming your way. I'll look forward to yuor future posts.
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Re: 7Snakes Breeding Season 2019
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Originally Posted by rlditmars
Looks like some exciting things are coming your way. I'll look forward to yuor future posts.
Thanks!
Quick update, not much has changed in the locks department, but this girl looks like she's about to ovulate, if she hasn't already. She's already gone off feed.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...com/t7miyg.jpg
I was expecting the Mojave girl to go first, but I certainly can't complain!
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Your Enchi Pied sure gets around! :cool:
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Re: 7Snakes Breeding Season 2019
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Originally Posted by FollowTheSun
Your Enchi Pied sure gets around! :cool:
Oh yeah. He's a reliable breeder. Not sure what I'd do without him. Speaking of which:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/24mdcut.jpg
The Mojave girl locked with him again few days ago, and now she's glowing.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/29byd79.jpg
It may be hard to tell because of the lighting, but the color change is really amazing. She's usually very dark, but now she looks like a Mojave Goldblush all of a sudden.
And I was right when I said this girl was about to ovulate:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/30ufju9.jpg
She's definitely doing it now! So huge...
In other news, I think my Yellowbelly het Pied may actually be female. I put my Enchi Pied in the same cage with the Yellowbelly and this girl awhile back, and he locked with the Yellowbelly instead of her. At first I thought it might be a fluke, since there was a female in the cage. So I tried with just the two "males" and they locked again.
So either the Yellowbelly het Pied is female, or he's gay. Guess I won't know unless I get eggs. "He" probed male, but I've never seen hemipenes and he's never locked with a female. I've heard that in some cases people can damage a female's scent glands by probing too deep, and that can cause them to probe as male from then on. I bought this snake from a guy who was new to BPs and struggling with their husbandry, so I wonder if that's what happened.
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Late update, but this girl had her pre-lay shed on the 23rd. The countdown to eggs begins!
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/28k69hi.jpg
The mojave is starting to look like she's about to ovulate, but I didn't get a picture of that. I think my green pastel girl may also go this year.
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...and we have a baby bump!
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...com/oif6kx.jpg
No tail suck yet, but it's coming.
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Re: 7Snakes Breeding Season 2019
Almost time to change the name from 7snakes to 70snakes! :)
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Re: 7Snakes Breeding Season 2019
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Originally Posted by Lord Sorril
Almost time to change the name from 7snakes to 70snakes! :)
Not quite yet. More like 30, lol. I think I will try to breed 7 different species in the future though, just to keep the name relevant.
Still waiting on the Black Pastel to drop her eggs, but in the meantime here's an update on the Mojave:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...om/15s956t.jpg
There she goes!
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Happy Easter guys! Can't believe she laid today. Great timing, right?
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...82&oe=5D6EB591
Four big eggs and one slug.
https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...77&oe=5D3D57FE
The four healthy eggs came in at 528g and the female is at 1500g. Not bad for her first clutch.
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Update: So the Mojave girl has her pre-lay shed on 5/7. Unfortunately I couldn't get a good picture because she wouldn't hold still.
Remember when I said I thought my Western Hognose girl might have ovulated back in January? I think she was just building. She didn't lay anything until yesterday. I was surprised to find a few eggs in her egg box last night and she laid a few more between then and this morning.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._2_545x500.png
I think they may all be slugs, but I'm not sure. Each one she lays looks a little better than the last, but none of them look like the white, round, healthy eggs I've seen other breeders produce. They're all in the incubator for now, but one of the older ones is starting to mold.
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Here's the rest:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._2_534x500.png
She laid them sporadically over several days and then left a bunch in the lay box last night. I think they're all slugs, with maybe one boob egg, but I'm keeping them all in the incubator for now.
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Update: so the Western Hognose "eggs" all turned out to be slugs. I had to chuck them. But my mojave girl finally laid today!
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._2_642x500.png
She gave me 8 beautiful eggs.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...2_690x416.jpeg
She was bred to an enchi pied, so I'm hoping for some mochi hets.
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Update! So I did get a few good western hognose eggs back in July:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach..._2_399x500.png
They're in the incubator now, and my mojave girl's eggs hatched!
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...22761ffeef.png
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...af80c8bb17.png
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...e486a4b9d4.png
Pretty great, huh? All eight babies are healthy and slithering around. I'm thinking the mochi will have to stay with me.
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Re: 7Snakes Breeding Season 2019
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Originally Posted by the_rotten1
Oh man those little guys are so cute! It's almost like they are all head with a tail lol. I may have to get one some day. Congrats on all your clutches!
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congrats on the hatchlings and sorry about the slugs.
what happened to your Insta BTW? last time i clicked on it it was full of BTS posts and i was gonna subscribed but i was on my PC at work. now it's all snakes. lol what gives?
;):rofl:
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Re: 7Snakes Breeding Season 2019
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Originally Posted by Ax01
congrats on the hatchlings and sorry about the slugs.
what happened to your Insta BTW? last time i clicked on it it was full of BTS posts and i was gonna subscribed but i was on my PC at work. now it's all snakes. lol what gives?
;):rofl:
I just fixed the link. :D I changed my username on Insta awhile back. I think what happened is that someone else took my old one. I didn't realize changing my name would change the url. Whoops.
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Re: 7Snakes Breeding Season 2019
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Originally Posted by Ax01
congrats on the hatchlings and sorry about the slugs.
what happened to your Insta BTW? last time i clicked on it it was full of BTS posts and i was gonna subscribed but i was on my PC at work. now it's all snakes. lol what gives?
;):rofl:
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Originally Posted by the_rotten1
I just fixed the link. :D I changed my username on Insta awhile back. I think what happened is that someone else took my old one. I didn't realize changing my name would change the url. Whoops.
so all those posts of the best boy band in the world wasn't by you? i'm kinda disappointed but gave u a follow anyways haha.
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