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Just curious as to what is the smallest baby bp anyone has hatched out? The smallest I've hatched was around 40g and is doing fine. The reason I ask is that I was over at Gulf Coast Reptiles the other day and they had some citrus ghost hatch out and had a set of twins in one egg. Both twins are doing fine and I'll let the pics do the describing.

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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of female holdbacks and several rescue normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

Those are really small. It would be amazing for a 18g baby to survive.

not yet, they are only 2 days old in that pic and haven't shed yet but both are fully formed and had bellies full of yolk at hatching so hopefully they will both make it.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of female holdbacks and several rescue normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

Josh, my smallest were a set of twins that hatched this year as well. Both were 22 grams, feed on mouse pinks before thier first sheds and are now 2 months later 70 grams (give or take) each. Neither has ever refused a meal and both are doing great.

Neil Golli

Sorry no pictures, still recovering from the tampa show and then chicago (21 hours each way, non stop).... Both great shows, FIRE next and then I take a bit of time off to enjoy out little one on the way, due December 15th (a boy)......
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Neil Golli
(813) 856 3408
info@gollireptiles.com
www.GolliReptiles.com

I hatched out a 16 gram monster. She is doing great now but is still under 80 grams.

She was 40 grams, while all my other babies are at least 70.

How about 12g? I hatched a pair of twins back in 2003 and kept one and gave the other to a friend. The one I have is a slow grower a difficult feeder (mouse only) but bred for the first time this past season. They can survive, but thriving by most standards is questionable.
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In jr. high! Those are little guys!

This year I hatched out a clutch w/ sizes between 37-42g each.
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Jeremy Conrad
bpConnection
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Hi - I too have had two snakes hatch out of one egg, which definitely results in them being smaller than normal, with one often being even markedly smaller than the other. I can't find my records for that, though.

I've also had the situation where for whatever reason a hatchling in a normal-sized egg didn't absorb a significant amount of the remaining nutrient and emerged quite undersized. I just hatched out an Angolan python clutch where the hatchlings were around 80 grams, but one came out weighing 57.9 grams. When I examined the shell contents I found a big 20 gram blob left behind.

I occasionally used to get those half-sized eggs that ball pythons are known for. I found one record from 1987 of an eight-egg clutch where two eggs were these small ones. The hatchlings from the six normal-sized eggs had a mean weight of 83.3 grams. The two smaller hatchlings were 37.6 and 43.6 grams.

-Joan