Garweft, your comment made me trust my instincts to see how this all goes.Originally Posted by garweft
Good luck on taking that road less traveled.
It does amaze me that one of the main reasons we like to keep snakes because they have interesting behaviors. Then when we have a chance to actually witness and keep records on what is probably the most interesting behavior of all snakes, we go the safe route and set 'em up in an incubator. I understand not wanting to take the risk on a clutch of spider het lavender pied x het lavender pied, but why not do something a little different with a clutch of pastels or spiders?
It's funny how we keep something because of our interest in their behaviors, but then set them up in racks on newsprint, feed F/T, and incubate artificially.
Just imagine if everything goes good you'll have done something most BP "experts" have never done.
We went ahead and fed mamma snake on schedule. We went back and forth on it - my husband and I - and finally decided to go ahead and feed her. It gave me a chance to candle the eggs, check for poop, mold, etc. And it gave my husband a chance to check mamma snake's health. Everything looks good although mamma is down to 1400grams.
We offered a slightly smaller ASF rat than she's used to. She went for the rat in 2 seconds flat. We put her back in the tub after she ate and she went straight to the eggs and coiled again.
Everything is fine except I noticed that one of the eggs is squooshed like she had her coil on top of it the whole time. It has good fat veins. I tried to press it a bit to see if it re-shapes but it looks like it's stuck just like that.
Admittedly, I'm really not as worried about the eggs than I am about mamma snake but it would be really cool if all 5 of these eggs hatch out fine.
THIRTY-EIGHT MORE DAYS. Sooooooo looooonnngggg....
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