I just wanted to add this posting from the 10th thread below entitiled "I am beginning to believe that the "spot"... and wanted to share some of the things I learned from this clutch.
Two days ago, I posted that thread showing 4 anerys (one of which had a spot). The clutch came from a ghost male parent and an anery het hypo with a spot...and because I had 4 anerys, I was beginning to wonder why no ghost showed up and whether the female anery mother was definite het hypo.
I also indicated in that posting that the 5th egg will not make it. I assumed that because when I did a couple of tiny slitting, some whitish goowee stuff came out, and upon probing more later in that same night two days ago, I finally saw a little formation of a hatchling. Well, I really did not want to open it up completely because of fear that I will just see a grotesque underdeveloped embryo and it will just break my heart to see something like that in person. I decided that I will just leave it for now in the incubator and just toss it in a few days or so.
Anyway, just before I went to bed late last night, a little head poked out and this morning out came this healthy wonderful ghost hatchling!!!
I have been breeding hondos now for a quite a number of years (about 6 to 7 years) and still learning so much about its husbandry. I learned 2 things really.
1) Patience - The egg where the ghost hatchling came from actually developed 2 dents a week after it was laid. As you know the dent usually appears just before hatching but these 2 dents appeared within 7 days of being laid! The picture showed the dent on one side but it also had the same dent size at the bottom of it...plus the other side started having a black spot discoloration. Anyway, I still decided to leave it and against all those visual odds, it hatched!
2) Trust - and I mean trust in your instinct to trust another person. That clutch was supposed to have a 50% chance of producing ghosts. That's a staggering set of odds in my favor and yet I got 4 anerys initially (of course without realizing that the 5th one will turn out to be a ghost). And so, doubt was already creeping up in my mind that the original seller might or quite possibly have misled me to buy the anery mother as a het hypo as well. But seriously, two years ago, I have done due dilligence in checking this guy out. I have talked to him on the phone a couple of times and his emails back and forth were nothing short of spectacular. In other words, with due dilligence and instinct on my part, My conscience was telling me that this person who sold the anery mother as a hatchling two years ago was indeed a trustworthy person. I am not saying to trust anyone out there blindly. But I also think that majority if not all of the people in this forum means well and my overall impression is that snake lovers are usually good people who are just out there to help one another enjoy the beauty of snakes and reptiles.
Thank you for reading this long thread! And have a good rest of the week.
Ray
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RAY 
- "Laziness is nothing more than a habit of resting before getting tired!"
