I've done things to help prevent tragedies with babies being born in the water bowl for years. Including inverted clay dish and low water level. This year I tried a couple of oblong pyrex baking dishes and just had an awesome result.....





This morning while doing my rounds I noticed Dot was out of her hide box, perched on the rim of her water dish looking quite skinny all of a sudden.





So I pulled the entire stack out, hide, water dish and mom and found she had dropped her babies in the water dish.







I could see the babies were in no danger as the individual egg sacks were half in and half out of the water. I pulled mom off the rim (she was sooooo skinny) and put her in a temporary holding tub. I also pulled the clay dish and drained out most of the water...







After a bit of cleaning up......











Final count 13 babies, large ones at ~35 grams each and one slug. All het hypos and a female heavy litter at a 5.8 ratio.



I only use the oblong dishes as the due date approaches as they are not conducive to mom soaking if she so desires.


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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 (02/01/2010):

42.61 BRB

27.40 BCI

And those are only the breeders



lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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