First ever clutch hatched!

Good morning everyone. I'm relatively new to the forum - I've been reading your posts for a few weeks and have only respondeed once or twice because I wanted to get a feel for the group. I am very impressed with this community. Having lurked :lurk: on several forums I must say you're welcoming, informative, and a lot more accepting of dumb questions than many others. I don't like the drama so I have not gone back to a few forums I tried out. Thanks for creating and maintaining a "safe Place" for newbies.

Well, after 76 days my fist ever clutch hatched Monday and yesterday. http://snakebytesforum.com/forum/Smi...fault/danc.gif

I had 6 eggs from my beautiful albino male I purchased from Chris Bianco and an albino het girl I got from Brian Sharp. This clutch was maternally incubated for the first 60 days because the Natures Spirit incubator that I ordered hadn't arrived before they hit the ground. I left them with mom for 60 days - she stayed with them every day. I never saw her unwrap from around the eggs, even to go get a drink of water. When the eggs hadn't begun to dimple after 60 days I pulled the eggs and put them in my incubator. About ten days later they started to dimple so we cut the eggs slightly (I was too afraid to cut much). I was sure I had screwed up big time by leaving them with mom and then moving them, but all the eggs still looked viable when we cut them.

Well, finally on Monday I began seeing little heads peek out. What a thrill! They were all out by last night. The results were 2.2 high contrast albinos and .2 100% het albinos. The ball pythons gods were smiling on us with this one.

congrats! great odds, and the ball gods were with you! lol



vaughn

Congrats on the babies!!! Got any pics??? :)

Wow! Congratulations to you! And welcome to the forums, we're glad to have you with us - and finally - PICTURES! ;)

Congratulations! I would love to see pics! :)

First welcome aboard and congrat's on your babie's.You got awesome odd's , the bp god's treated you well. Looking forward to seeing some pic's I will also be breeding my albino but I don't a have het female so I have to take the long route.Unless I get a good deal in Daytona.

Sweeet!!! Of course we need pics!!!


Congrats and welcome!!!

Neil

Welcome to bp.net :handshake


This is fantastic news and congratulations on success :D

Welcome and conrats. We don't normaly get newbe posts saying they just had a cluch hatch. Its normaly Crazy questions. Welcome again and we look forward to seeing pics and hearing more from you.

WELCOME!! :hug: And congrats on such a beautifully successful clutch!! I hope the mamma has had a nice, fat, extra-juicy rat for all her incubating efforts! :P

Thanks to everyone for your kind words. :D


This is my first attempt to post pics on this forum so I hope this works.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...-06_786991.JPG

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...rstclutch2.JPG



https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...irstclutch.JPG

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...ohatchling.JPG

FanFreakinTastic!!!!


Thanks for sharing. Those are some super sharp lil babies :D

I saw the smoke, this must be the fire- They're totally hott. Because, babies can be described as hot. See incredulous and sizzling.

Seriously though, baby balls are a weak spot for me, and they're just soo cute! *endless babytalk*
Love one with his head pokin out(2) :D

I want to scream!!! ALBINO BALLS ARE THE GREATEST!!! I like them more than any ball morph!!

2.2 albino and 0.2 het! Go buy a lottery ticket woman! Well...you did already hit the jackpot. =)

CONGRATS! They're beautiful! =D

Great pic's Alice Albino's rock.

Hi Alice...

Congratulations! Those are VERY nice Albinos! I remember my first Ball Python clutch that hatched... I also remember my first Albino Ball that hatched. These two events were about 6 years apart from one another. You are lucky to see such gems in that first special clutch.

A lot like my friend Albey... first clutch had Super Pastels!

You guys sure are lucky!!

Take care of those little guys... try not to keep them all!

Congrats the the beautiful first clutch! And wow, what a first clutch!!

:welcome:

Welcome aboard. Great pics, thanks for sharing!!:D

Thanks again everyone. I've started to calm down a little bit now. It's probably good that I work during the day or I'd be in the snake room peeking into their tubs every few minutes. They are soooo cute. :banana:
I've got 2 more clutches on the ground; both from a blond pastel:normal breeding. We've been raising our balls for about 2 1/2 years now. It takes a long time before those females are ready as you all know. I know I could have bought larger females at the start but I figured I'd learn alot more by raising some up to breeding size. I was impatient along the way but the waiting is starting to pay off. I still considered myself a newbie becuase this is my first clutch. So much to learn about this business/hobby. :rolleye2:

Sean, I am having the hardest time even considering selling any of these babies. Can't sell the first one out, that's our very first albino baby. Can't sell the first 100% het female - that's our first het and she is very pretty. Can't sell the second albino out of the egg because it has such cool looking dots down its back. And so forth and so on. Please tell me I'll get over this so I don't end up with hundreds of snakes, unwilling to part with any of them. :oops:

Congrats on a great clutch and great odds Alice. You'll eventually get over wanting to keep them all, but on the flip side, their is nothing wrong with keeping everything. So what if you end uo with 1,000 snakes, they make great friends, and mine will listen to my ranting for hours.
Congrats Again,