so turns out my thermometer in my incubator was off... by like 10 degrees!

[MootWorm]

Oh I love Sickle and Pug!! As for adopting them, are you able to ship? I would charge a small rehoming fee, and maybe there's a contract you can have people sign to ensure they won't breed them. Of course, some people may just breed them anyway, but it shows you're serious about them being pet only. It's definitely a tough spot to be in.

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[angelobutter]

all normals bummer... especially since I saw her lock with a spider, a pastel woma and a lesser. oh well why couldn't this have been the kink tail clutch?
4 snakes lots of pictures

[angelobutter]

Oh I love Sickle and Pug!! As for adopting them, are you able to ship? I would charge a small rehoming fee, and maybe there's a contract you can have people sign to ensure they won't breed them. Of course, some people may just breed them anyway, but it shows you're serious about them being pet only. It's definitely a tough spot to be in.

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Yes I can ship- my local fed ex is a butt though so I have to go to the main fed ex hub but it's only a little bit of an extra drive. contract is a good idea- and yes some people will breed anyways but I think that that is all i can do unless I keep them all


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and clutch 3 is still hatching. but i see a pastel and a lesser so I am excited.

[sunshinenorcas]

Angelobutter- if you want to adopt them to pet only, PM me in a few weeks after they shed and eat for you I don't want to bred, and I was thinking about adding another little one anyways and think that Pug is adorable

Edit; and I am terrible at the morphs- are they spider somethings?

[angelobutter]

ya I would be much more into adopting them out to people from this forum- at least then I know they like ball pythons lol. Once I get them shed and eating well I will get a hold of anyone interested
and yes they are spider- (correct me if I am wrong- the odd patterns are throwing me off a bit but they aren't light enough to be bees). it was a normal bred to a lesser, a spider and a bumblebee though I did NOT see the bee lock. unfortunately now I am kicking myself for ever putting the bee in there, because now that I question the kinks to be genes of the clutch I don't know if the bee sired the clutch and just got all spiders, or if the spider sired the clutch. so now I have two boys in question unfortunately. so I have to figure that one out when I try to replicate the breeding next year in a more controlled incubation test. oh well- this year has certainly been a year of learning by making mistakes - maybe next year I will get someone experienced to line up the breeding season for me.

[Touchedbyfate]

I would love to have one.. They are still really beautiful snakes

[Badgemash]

I don't think you'll have any trouble finding pet only homes for them, they're really cute. I'd happily take Spot if I didn't already have Little Dude as my "pet," although if I started to breed my own feeders...

[angelobutter]

ok so yet another problem- a clutch 3 baby was still 1/2 way in his egg as of this morning, i peeked in and saw his umbilical cord is wrapped around his belly. thought maybe he was close to coming out of the egg so I left him, just looked now and he is mostly out of the egg and his umbilical cord has a knot in it and a lot of the yolk is not absorbed- that is still in his egg- he is like 90% out of his egg, just his tail and the yolk are still in it. so with this knot.. do I just let it be? or is there some sort of intervention i can do? obviously he doesn't have enough nutrition to keep him healthy without absorbing the yolk so I am bummed again.

[sunshinenorcas]

How are these little guys doing?

[angelobutter]

hey- I meant to update once I had gotten everyone eating, but There is enough interest i will update now. I have not gotten the spiders eating yet, but about half of the other babies have eaten so I am sure they will start soon. They have all shed though I had to help the two worst kinked ones (spot and pug) with the very tip of the tail when they shed- just a quick soak and it came right off, but whoever gets them needs to be prepped that they might always need a bit of help with shedding that kinked tip. I will work of getting them eating, hopefully in the next day or two- but they look like they are doing well so far. thanks again for everyone who talked me through all this






Oh and as an update for the one who had a knot in his umbilical cord: he eventually cut the cord trying to move around but I think he did manage to absorb a bit of the yolk before hand- he is visibly much smaller and thinner than his sibling but I am hoping once he starts eating he will catch up. very active and a beautiful pastel. First pic is the pastel sibling who hatched normally and the second image is the pastel baby who had the knot in his cord.