71 days and counting

[Dionythicus]

Argh! This year my clutches have been hatching right on time, even if one clutch took over a week to get the last one out of the egg. This clutch is taking forever. They've been at 80-82 degrees. There are only 6 good eggs out of a clutch of 18. They are big and white with lots of veins and are definitely soft, but not dimpling. I've been more patient this year, but this clutch has me so frustrated! C'mon and hatch already! The mom is an amel unk hets, Bruneaux, my first snake. The dad is the snow that produced my yellow bordered babies last year. Of the amels I kept from Bruneaux's first breeding to a normal het amel, they have a greenish/yellow cast to their belly checkers and a little to their saddle borders. Both have great patterns, one is zig-zag and the other has a zig-zag/Aztec/broken glass kinda thing going on. I didn't get any good eggs from her last year. So I'm hoping Bruneaux is het for anery, but I'm really hoping to see more zig-zags. Don't these babies know check out time in the Incubator Hotel is 65 days? I'm going to have to charge them extra.

[Joni Garcia]

Hurry up pippies, so we can see pictures!

[Dionythicus]

I checked a couple hours ago and there's finally a pippie! Its an amel, which makes me think Bruneaux isn't het anery, but there are five more eggs. I can't imagine her not being het for something, but she's from Petco, so who knows. You'd think that she would be het anery since they mostly carry normals, amels and snows. Maybe she was wholesaled from one of Rich's secret projects back in '99 and she's het for lava/lavender/blood/caramel/sunkissed or something goofy like that!

[Caroline]

Originally Posted by Dionythicus

Maybe she was wholesaled from one of Rich's secret projects back in '99 and she's het for lava/lavender/blood/caramel/sunkissed or something goofy like that!

hehe would be great

Glad they finally started to pip. Post pics when they'll be out.

[Dionythicus]

One amel out and three amel noses looking back at me. Only two more chances to see if there's anery in Bruneaux, but six eggs really doesn't give a great deal of opportunity to prove genetics. Still, if I get six amels, I'll quit thinking she's het for anything but zig-zag, which is cool in itself.

Next year she has a date with either an amel motley or a bloodred, if either one is big enough. I'd like to breed her to both at some point, but she's eight yrs old and I've watched her egg production drop in the last two years. So we'll see. I'd take the blood over the motley just because Bruneaux is such a dark orange and red with very little white that I want to capture that in amel bloods.

[Dionythicus]

Yep, six amels. Three have hatched and three are pipping. At least one has partial zig-zag and a funky head pattern.

[mary-beth]

We want pictures woman!
Congrats!

[Dionythicus]

Here ya go! Some pippies and #3, with the partial zig zag. So far its a potential keeper.

[Pika-Bunny]

Aww she's beautiful! Love the shots ^_^ Zig-zags are awesome.