Toby, thanks for the refresher.



It amazes me that your meahllmorum had so many large babies and that they are so healthy. It doesn't surprise me too much that your babies were a little finicky. Corn snakes can be a little finicky also, especially the ones from further south.



I think you must have started with some pretty big and healthy stock to ave. that many babies. I also think your stock is a little hardier than the B.I. or Freer stock being further north and close to the coast. Your animals may get quite a bit larger than mine too, and time will tell on that, but my largest is a pigmy compared to your largest.



The more I think about it the more I realize that my group got off to a really rough start. My snakes were tiny and skinny when I got them. Two of the five wouldn't eat and they were the two that died in cooling. The others have come along slowly and are a little smaller than I think they should be. Still, they'll be three yrs old this summer, and I'm using the B.I. male to breed a female from another group. I'll try to breed the female B.I. rat next season. She's the larger of the two fem. ASAMOF, the B.I. (coastal) morph seems to be lots hardier than the Freer morph, and larger. Maybe the ones along the coast are a little different, as we've discussed before, but I won't get into intergrades, or anything, right now.



Thanks for the info. More later, I'm sure.



Terry

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