Thanks.

For the most part they were. I did sadly have a couple hatchlings die that never ate on their own and despite having successfully assist fed them several times.

On the more positive side though, it was good to have Christmas with my parents who God has blessed me with after threatening to die on me more than once in the last year.

I also watched more anime that I can shake a stick at! Speaking on which, don't watch Clannad. It will eat your soul and spit it back out and then though in a big WTF ending. It was the closest I come to crying at a work of fiction is ages.