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    All it takes is one day...

    So I have a cinnamon ball python, female, and I thought, maybe I could breed her. So I put a pastel male in with her. However, I forgot to weigh her so after one day I decided to weigh her to see what her weight was, but she was underweight by 100 grams 1900), playing it safe, I moved the pastel male out.

    So about a month ago, I checked on her and found she was sitting on a clutch of 6 eggs (because she'd stopped eating which is rare for her). So I transferred them to vermiculite/perlite thinking they were fresh. They started to collapse, so I was panicking, thinking it's too early for them to hatch and writing them off as soon-going-to-be dead. One dried out and so I removed it from the top to the side, it eventually died.

    After a lot of upsets where the heating turned off one time, and having to move them out due to fumigation, and one night in the cold because the power turned off, I was sure they would all die.

    Then today, surprise, surprise they all hatched.

    Yeah, so apparently it only takes one day for a female to become gravid. 1 freaking day. And her eggs turned out hardy despite everything.

    Looks like I got a pewter, I think. Since this is their first day, I'm not sure until they come out and then I can sex them and get your votes. I see definite cinnamon patterns on all of them though.

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    Re: All it takes is one day...

    Oh widdle baby snoots, I'm so glad to hear they made it theyre so cute

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    Re: All it takes is one day...

    Wowza! If I were you I'd invest in some lottery tickets cuz you are so lucky! XD Im so happy that most of them made it! I cant guess more then two cinnamon from what i see in the pic but im super excited to see those little ones when they come out

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    Re: All it takes is one day...

    Quote Originally Posted by BluuWolf View Post
    Wowza! If I were you I'd invest in some lottery tickets cuz you are so lucky! XD Im so happy that most of them made it! I cant guess more then two cinnamon from what i see in the pic but im super excited to see those little ones when they come out

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    I have one definite pewter. It's too light to be a cinnamon. And then one normal. Three cinnamon (one fully emerged, female, I think) and the last one I'm not sure because it has some cinnamonish patterns (floating alien heads), but it doesn't mean it's a cinnamon since some normals can have a cinnamon-like pattern and it's staying below so I can't see the pattern/colors clearly. There are no pastels. I'm laughing because last year I bred a pastel to a normal and got all normals. The odds of that are quite funny.

    Either way, I'm lucky to produce a pewter--with some luck it'll be a female. I'll take pictures when they come out and you can see them better then. I kinda want to leave them be while they are taking their last meal from the egg. I usually wait to sex them since their guts are usually filled with egg white, etc which they need to absorb before I sex them.
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    Wow, that is an awesome snake breeding story! Love the suspense, and the happy ending!

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    Waiting for the pewter to come out before I take pictures, but it's shy and hatched last.

    So far, 6 eggs (I miscounted, sue me). 1 pewter, 1 normal, 4 cinnamon, 0 pastel. Haha. I wonder if that pastel isn't going to produce a pastel. Of the cinnamon, one has the dominant trait I've been breeding for--the spotted dorsal. The normal looks funky and looks to be a female, which will make her easier to sell.

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    I did not segregate them, they segregated themselves.

    Pewter is female and is esssscaaapppingsss. The normal has strange alien eyes. Most of the "alien eyes" are dashes.




    Normal pattern:


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