A few of you may have seen the post regarding my hatchling that I lost...

Well I have had some good events in the last few days as well.

Here are pics of the day I was moving the last of the hatchlings (still in the egg) into a smaller container in the incubator.

I came home checked the incubator and found baby snakes all over the place.

Then as I was walking away I walked past my rack to see a big ol' mound of snake in there.

Instantly I knew that my girl Olive had FINALLY laid her clutch. I have been anticipating this for SO long. She had two prelay sheds... each one about two months apart... I was losing my mind not knowing what was going on with her. She has been breeding since October and building since January... I kid you not that this has been a crazy time.

She never missed a meal, till finally I had to stop feeding her. She was a robust 3kg prior to laying...

I was close to taking her to the vet.

But yeah...

So here's the pics... pretty self-explanatory. (9 eggs btw - all have candled fertile).













If I absolutely HAD to take a wife... she would be it... and if I could only keep one snake, then she would be my girl. Getting eggs from her and knowing she is OK is the best thing to happen to me in ages.

And for the record... we are either cooking PH Hypos or Pastels. Doesn't matter though. I just really want a few of her daughters. She is the sweetest natured snake I have ever met and is an amazingly robust girl. Just short of 5 feet and 3kg (or was).



And here she is making Zoltan work for the sexy.



Taking a dip in her pool...



Thanks for looking...
Bruce

PS: she is my Echo, Branagh and Zoe all rolled into one super cool snake.