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Hey!
The first hatchling of my clutch of burm eggs arrived this afternoon. This one is from the same clutch that the preemie I posted a few weeks ago was from. Both snakes have intersting markings, especially considering that their parents are normals that are het for albino and labyrinth (I think the guy told me labyrinth).

I posted a few questions below the photos and would appreciate any/all input I can get.

Here's a few photos. My camera is on the blink so they didn't turn out very good. Sorry.

I need to know what temperature and humidity percentage to keep the newborns at and if there's an easy, simple setup.

I've got it in a plastic shoe box-type container with damp paper towels for substrate.

I've got the temp between 86 - 88 degrees, F.

I don't know how active they're supposed to be but this isn't very active but it is alert. When I had to top of the container to take photos, its skin started drying out, wrinkling. Is this normal?

I think this one is just a tad early, as far as hatch date. Eggs were laid April 21. Mother incubated them up until about 2 weeks ago and I've had them in an aquarium-style incubator at 90 - 92 degrees since.

Ya'll take care!
HH

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Due to political correctness run amuck,
this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:
Appalachian American

I couldn't tell by how you worded your post if you'd figured it out or not, but the parents to these babies ARE in fact het lab because the pics you posted are of visible labs. Like I said I couldn't tell if you'd figured it out yet or not but either way a huge congrats!

Heh, no, I didn't figure it out.

I've always been a "natural", "normal," person, never even paying any attention to morphs. Of course, there weren't many morphs back when I got into keeping snakes. I just started paying a little bit of attention to them in the last few years and obviously I didn't pay enough attention. Ha!

I think what was throwing me off was how long the neck stripe is. Thinking about the pattern, I kept thnking "Green" instead of "Labyrinth."

Thanks for the congratulations! I can't believe I waited 30yrs to breed snakes after having kept them for that long. Just never had a desire to until now. I made plenty of blunders on this clutch but I've flat learned a lot.

Reminds me of when my first child was born. The feelings, etc... LOL!

Have a good one!
HH
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Due to political correctness run amuck,
this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:
Appalachian American