This evening we came home to a big surprise, although it was definitely tempered with some disappointment. We've got two big anery females (700 grams plus). One of them we've been introducing with our stripe het anery male, hoping for stripe anerys. However, the real shock was when our other female anery, who I purchased several months ago and didn't realize was gravid, gave birth today. The seller told us that that she wasn't likely gravid despite her enormous size, but I had my suspicions. She had 16 slugs, 12 still borns, and one live stripe anery! Unfortunately, there were four dead stripe anerys among them as well as a GORGEOUS stripe het anery with a beautiful orange stripe. In addition, there were 7 dead anerys. This is definitely a tough thing to go through for someone who's just starting out breeding Kenyans But it's important to remember to be thankful for what you have and look at it as a glass half full (or tub half full as it were). We've got one survivor to be thankful for, a beautiful stripe anery. It looks healthy and seems to be doing just fine. With any luck it'll make it just fine. And on top of that, we've still got another liter coming from the other big anery female and the same stripe het anery male :^).

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