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rainbowsrus
at Sun Oct 4 01:51:36 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rainbowsrus ]
Friday Night Bullseye was looking like she was ready to drop, caught her half in and half out of her hide but she ended up just going into her water bowl. In the wee hours of Saturday morning, around 5ish, she was still in her water bowl.
Then, around 11ish I found her still in her water bowl with babies squirming around and under her. Also many babies all over the place, on the rim, against the door, on the floor and eventually even found a few in the moss hide box. Sorry for the lack of pics, I was worried about the babies still in the water bowl with mom so pics were not even on my mind. I opened the cage door and pulled the loose babies from the front of the cage and around the bowl. Put them in a deep garbage can, one too tall for them to climb out of. Then pulled the water bowl and closed up the cage with the rest of the babies still loose inside. Like I said my main concern was for the babies still in the water bowl with mom. I carefully extracted mom and put her in an empty drawer I keep for holding adults while cleaning cages. Strained away most of the water/slime and dumped the rest along with the babies into a 15qt tub. This allowed me to pull individual babies. All but one still in the water bowl were just fine. Can't know if it drowned or would have been still born anyways.....????
Anyways, when all was said and done, 28 new babies, 1 stillborn and 1 slug.
Babies ranged from....
26 grams - 1
27 grams - 7
28 grams - 7
29 grams - 8
30 grams - 5
I did take a pic of them in 15 qt tubs waiting to be put away into regular tubs.
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Thanks,
Dave Colling
www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats  
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 A little relief to the agony... - rainbowsrus, Sun Oct 4 01:51:36 2009
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