Candling shots-Find the albino

[Laooda]

Okay. I re-evaluated and I still think you may be hatching some odd, cabbage-patch kid re-incarnation. $20 says it comes out bald.




Between the trippy cosmic one and the angry cabbage-patch one, it should be an interesting clutch........



Cheers,
Kat

Hahaha!!! I see it!

Excellent post...



BTW... I think that last pic looks like a freaky critter-cam birth canal or something... Really great pic Raul!

Very best of luck with the odds-gods!

[West Coast Jungle]

Okay. I re-evaluated and I still think you may be hatching some odd, cabbage-patch kid re-incarnation. $20 says it comes out bald.




Between the trippy cosmic one and the angry cabbage-patch one, it should be an interesting clutch........



Cheers,
Kat

Very interesting, hope the cabbage patch make a comeback

[JenH]

Hey Raul - I'm bringing this one back up because I have a question....

I just candled a clutch due to hatch the 30th of May. Ghost-like normal girl (real light) to a bee and a mojave. I can easily see black on 6 of the eggs - one looks like a bee (spider with dots) and a spider and maybe a pastel or normal. One egg has me puzzled. Actually it looks exactly like the first shot in post one - white head, dark eye with a little pattern sweeping back from the eye. I saw the same exact head pattern and can faintly see pattern on the body but no dark colors anywhere....

So my question is - could it be a mojave and the colors are slow to develop? Or do I have a surprise albino? Very exciting stuff!!!

[Mike Cavanaugh]

do you have a smaller flashlight? If not, go get one! I have found the key to getting egg shots is a small flashlight pushing against the egg, sealing the beam it the key...

[MarkS]

I've always used a mini-maglight with the AA batteries. And it works OK, but I've never really been able to discern a lot of detail other then that there was a snake in the egg. So you think if I got the smaller maglight that takes the AAA batteries I'd see more detail? Is there anything with a smaller more intense beam than those? (that doesn't cost an arm and a leg)

[West Coast Jungle]

Hey Raul - I'm bringing this one back up because I have a question....

I just candled a clutch due to hatch the 30th of May. Ghost-like normal girl (real light) to a bee and a mojave. I can easily see black on 6 of the eggs - one looks like a bee (spider with dots) and a spider and maybe a pastel or normal. One egg has me puzzled. Actually it looks exactly like the first shot in post one - white head, dark eye with a little pattern sweeping back from the eye. I saw the same exact head pattern and can faintly see pattern on the body but no dark colors anywhere....

So my question is - could it be a mojave and the colors are slow to develop? Or do I have a surprise albino? Very exciting stuff!!!

Sounds like you may have a BEL? That would be cool. Best of luck

[JenH]

I've always used a mini-maglight with the AA batteries. And it works OK, but I've never really been able to discern a lot of detail other then that there was a snake in the egg. So you think if I got the smaller maglight that takes the AAA batteries I'd see more detail? Is there anything with a smaller more intense beam than those? (that doesn't cost an arm and a leg)

I use one of the smaller maglights it it works great. In my last clutch I pretty much knew I had a killer (white and black was washed out), a bee(spider with dots) a spider and 2 pastel looking snakes....

That is why this egg is tripping me up.. I can see very light pattern on the body, so I don't think it is a leustic. I'm leaning albino....

[Muze]

I've always used a mini-maglight with the AA batteries. And it works OK, but I've never really been able to discern a lot of detail other then that there was a snake in the egg. So you think if I got the smaller maglight that takes the AAA batteries I'd see more detail? Is there anything with a smaller more intense beam than those? (that doesn't cost an arm and a leg)

Same here. I can only tell with my eggs (which are on day 48) that there are little critters in there. No patterns or any of that good stuff. I tried yesterday to see them, I really did, but no cigar.

[JenH]

I took a look again today and I can see mojave pattern, but it's really faint... So I'm thinking that the brown in the mojave develops later then the black does in the pastel/bee. Wouldn't it be cool to put a camera inside and watch them develop??

[kc261]

I took a look again today and I can see mojave pattern, but it's really faint... So I'm thinking that the brown in the mojave develops later then the black does in the pastel/bee. Wouldn't it be cool to put a camera inside and watch them develop??

That's a really interesting observation, although it makes sense in a way. If the reason they are brown instead of black is because they produce less of it and/or it is not as dark, it would take longer for there to be enough pigment to be seen through the egg shell, even with candling.

I know on my mice I can recognize which ones will be black or black & white spotted sooner than I can recognize which ones will a lighter color such as grey or the worst is the orange color.

As soon as you develop that camera for inside the eggs, let me know. I want one!