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anery het snow x het albino:

8 stillborn albinos
1 stillborn paradox
6 stillborn normals
4 slugs

1 premie albino
4 premie normals

Day 108 after POS, hotspot was always 89-90F, shes 7ft 4yr, hes only 4ft 2yr. Was my male too small? Any ideas guys? My only clutch this year! What a huge dissapointment. Always next year I guess, mom is healthy! Thanks for any input,

Jack

Sometimes it just comes out that way, not necessarily any thing you did wrong.

Sorry for the crappy litter, glad mom is OK!
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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:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

1. Was she always on the heat?
2. Were they all born outside the birth membrane?
3. What did the dead babies look like?
4. Did they have large masses of yolk outside the body still?
5. Did they have massive bellies full of yolk?
6. Do you have pictures of them in the cage where the momma dropped them?
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She would move back and forth from the heat, which I was told was good, that it meant she was thermoregulating, is this incorrect?

Some babies had large bellies full of yolk, many had yolk oustside body (ranging from dime-quarter in size).

I didn't see the membranes really, thought that was unusual.

It is her and my first litter. Do you think the hotspot should have been hotter? Thanks for the input. Pics I have arent that great and I dont know how to post em.

I had a bad (very first) litter this year, @ 105 days POS, hot spot @ 90. All babies were born with large yolks (some silver dollar sized, some much larger), 2 were stillborn, 2 died the first night. Of the remainder, 3 absorbed a lot of yolk and 2 (twins attached to the same yolk) are very small and didn't absorb much yolk before getting detached.

22 slugs! Ug.

You did get some preemies though, so that's good. I'm just glad that some have survived. The stillborns are the worst... because it's "Ooh! A baby!" until you touch it and realize it's not responsive. Definitely sucks.
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