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Was cleaning and feeding this eve and ran across a clutch I overlooked in the striped meahlmorrim's hide. They were hard and totally dried up. I hatched a perfect clutch from a w.c. emoryi, 8 for 8 with 3 feeding right off the bat, but the meahllies were the last cage. A rookie mistake for sure, I didn't even consider the fact that it was possible. I will be ready next year with a laying box. 11 eggs and one or more coulda been striped, DANGIT! I feel like crap, not that I lost possible stripers but that I didn't even take the time to check the hide, which they are in all day long, I never see them out except rarely at night. Hard lesson learned, Excuse me now, I am going to flagellate myself!

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Todd Hughes

Hey Todd, go easy on yourself. Lesson learned, move on and do it better next time. Congrats on the eight babies you successfully hatched. To get an entire clutch of eggs to hatch out healthy is an accomplishment itself.

-Toby

Thanks, Toby, yeah we'll get 'em next time!
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Todd Hughes

Don't beat yourself up too bad. I did the exact same thing with some Chuckwalla eggs this week. 6 eggs straight to the trash...
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
0.1.0 Boa Constrictor
1.2.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
2.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snake
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnakes
1.1.0 California Kingsnake
3.2.0 Rosy Boas (Mexican, Temecula, & Bagdad)
1.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
0.0.1 Lyre Snake
0.0.1 Glossy Snake
0.0.1 Shovelnose

LIZARDS
2.0.0 Bearded Dragons
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.2 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.1 Chuckwalla
1.4.0 Banded Gecko
0.0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko
1.1.3 Sandfish
2.0.0 Desert Iguanas

AMPHIBIANS
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
0.0.1 White's Tree Frog
0.0.2 Gold Frogs
1.0.0 Fire Salamander

Sorry Todd. That sucks.
If it makes you feel any better I did the same thing with mandarin this year. Luckily I found them while they were still good. The female looked as if she was just starting to swell and I thought she still had a pre egg laying shed to go. As you can see in this pic I didn't even have a egg box in the cage yet. Later, Randy W.

Thanks guys, I just feel...DE DE DEEEE! I have a boatload of various stuff to try for next year, Santa's bringin' me a refurbished snake room and a separate feeder room!...well, I'M gonna be good to myself and the snakes this winter, LOL! Randy, those mandies are schweet! Maybe I am gonna be REAL good to myself this year!

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Todd Hughes

Tough break Todd.
Happens to everyone sooner or later....
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Gives us all something to look forward to next year!!!!
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Regards, Bill McGighan

Thanks Bill, I will be ready!
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Todd Hughes