My two hatchlings are out :-)

[dr del]

Hi,

These were the only two fertile eggs in the clutch of slugs - they were each stuck to two mouldy slugs all the way through incubation as you can see in one of the pics.

One of them seems to have a few "glitches" in his pattern - merged saddles and joined belly checks. But both seem healthy and perfectly formed so I am like a dog with two tails.

It's also wierd to me how both seem to have something resembling the letter "T" ontheir foreheads as both parents have a "Y" shape - are my hatchlings illiterate?

Hatchling 1 - a bit of a squirmer so this was as good as I could get;



Hatchling two seems to be a bit more of a poser;



I think it's wierd how his belly checks line up in places - is this common?



Contrary to the evidence he has me wrapped round his little finger.



This pic shows the extreme fungus they were exposed to;



I haven't sexed either of them yet - I figured I would wait until at least after their first shed and probably until they have had a few meals. What with me not being able to pop and everything.

Mom had her pre-lay shed for a second clutch yesterday (her descision not mine ) so the incubator won't be empty for long I hope. Looks like I might have corn and ball pythons eggs in the same week. Lets just hope I have enough room.

Thanks for looking.


dr del

[stangs13]

Sweet, nice looking babies derek!! Lets pray that the double clutch has more fertiles!!!

[LadyOhh]

Yay Babies!!!

[blackcrystal22]

Zwoot! :d

[AzureN1ght]

Awww! Congrats!

[rabernet]

Awww, wee little worms!!!! So cute! Congrats!

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Congrats on the noodles Derek!

[dr del]

Thanks guys,

I had forgotten just how small these things are as babies.

How do people probe them as small as this? I'm keechin masel a the very idea.


dr del

[tideguyinva]

Babies babies everywhere. AHHHHH LOL Great looking clutch.

[Bruce Whitehead]

I love my BPs, but I really like my corns.

Congrats, that are both really nice looking little snakes, but yeah, that is a bizarre abherrant pattern on snake number two.

Do you think it may be random, or due to something in the incubation process?

Bruce