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My first Kimberley Rock eggs hatching out yesterday:
Just thought I'd share the picture. And, no, I'm not selling babies - just sharing the pictures of them pipping.

Krusty

>>My first Kimberley Rock eggs hatching out yesterday:
>>Just thought I'd share the picture. And, no, I'm not selling babies - just sharing the pictures of them pipping.
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>>Krusty

Great stuff! Post more pics
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Mike Heinrich,
Mike@amazontreeboa.org
www.amazontreeboa.org

Here's the first little Kim out and about 24 hours after pipping. "Candling" the other eggs, they all have alive and moving babies in there. The light makes them wiggle. Hopefully lots more decide to come out! This one is 3"SVL and 7.75"TL. I don't have a digital gram scale to get a weight accurately, just a cheesy food scale. The flash washes out the colors some:

Krusty

Krusty

Big congrats! I wouldn't sell any either.

Nate

HOLY SMOKES!!
Congratulations!!!
I wouldn't get rid of them either.
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Charles Koutris

Thanks. The last time I posted pics of eggs or something here I got like 28 emails in a couple hours, so I'm just posting 'not for sale. just sharing' in advance to avoid confusion.

Here are a couple more pipping out:

That's funny but completely understood. They're absolutely stunning monitors. I hope to get a pair one day. I know it is going to take a while to find nice pair but I don't mind waiting. I have owned and worked with many monitors in my day but haven't had any in quite a while. The last group of monitors I worked with were Komodo Dragons at the National Zoo while I was a keeper there. Trooper could no longer work with them because of his injuries so I got all the Dragons in the house. A day doesn't go bye that I don't miss them especially Kraken who passed (RIP). After working with the largest monitors and having the facilities to care for them, my view on what is acceptable to house the beautiful creatures has changed drastically. Unless I win the lottery dwarf monitors are the only monitor I would ever think about keeping to make sure I would be able to offer the proper requirements for it to thrive. Kimberly rock monitors are on my list and hopefully one day I will be posting pictures similar to yours. Until then I will live vicariously through you and others that are having wonderful success with these fantastic animals.
again congrats!!!
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Charles Koutris

Looks like that hard work is paying off.

Congrats on the kim hatching, I seen the full size pic on the other forum, they look nice but perhaps a different bloodline? Here is a pic from one of our one day old hatchlings last year. We have some young women [9month olds] from last year that are looking pretty plump so were hopeing for eggs soon ourselves.
Good luck with them, Robert Sutton
Maxian's Collection www.herphatch.com

Thanks Ian/Bob.

Bob - I have two different "types" or "lines". The other ones you mentioned are almost yellow that I showed last year at birth/a month old, but become more grey/red/tan as adults. The father of these one's hatching is a stunner with very brilliant contrast compared to my other males. He's got a lot of yellow vs the reds and greys as an adult. I'll get a pic up of the parents.

FYI - all 8 of 8 hatched out and are in rear-up cages now. There's not just one hatchling. I moved them out one by one when they were ready, so I didn't get that 'money shot' of a whole ton of them in a container together (even though that's one of my favorite pics to get!).

Wow, you actually sound more excited then my 10 yr.old son did when he caught his first Wahoo fish down in Cape Hatteras! Thats great! Back in the day Joe hatched them like most people producing bearded dragons, I always liked them but there were so many around and I was breeding pilbaras until Joe sold out and all I seen were the spiraling down effects of his best efforts to keep high numbers of them on the market. That is why after breeding pilbaras for many years [9th yr. hatching] I decided to get some Kims last year and got some nice ones that were cherry picked out of Joes stock down in Daytona. The female definatley came from Joe but not sure about the male. I did hatch 5 clutches and sold only a few, my holdbacks should be dropping anytime, probably in another month or so. Here is a pic of our founding female, I have a male that looks identical[one of her sons] but much brighter red, they are still retaining some yellow under the throats which was a characteristic the mother had and looks great! Virtually no white color except the stomach.
Best wishes,Robert

Yup, this is a fun hobby for me - don't have Joe's $$$ or building...wish I did. Thanks for the comments (i think). lol

Here's the sire male to these babies. He's got a nice pattern of yellow ocelli without being all charcoaled out/grey:

He looks good Justin. Congrats on the babies.

Thanks Art. Props to you for making him. He's one of the prettiest Kims I've ever seen.

Nice looking guy, if you look at the black markings he has around the last 1/4 of his posterior gray spots and look at our female, she has the black markings around 3/4 of her gray occeli and some people on the forum belived her to be a male because of this trait, it just makes her red look even better [nice contrast], actually you can see in this pic she was in shed and only a small portion of her upper back was done shedding when this pic was taken. I like the black markings around the occeli, her son has alot of this going on and 2 of her daughters to but just as Ive learned with the helodermas what floats my boat may sink yours and vice versa. I have a small clutch of pilbarensis hatching now, I will try and post a pic if I think about snapping one, Joe use to call them caged jewlery and was pretty accurate at that I think.
Thanks, Robert

I remember that image before when you shared it. It's a nice Kim. Rich red color and a lot of black banding for a girl.

LOL. I missed part of your post.

If someone said it's a male and it is not, just post a picture of the eggs or hatching events and then a picture of your middle finger. While males usually have the dynamic patterning and more melanin, it's not always foolproof. I look more at the vent and spurs than anything with Kims. I don't even bother looking at overall size or head width as it's trivially different and with young animals it's about who's been eating and sunning more often.

I have my own way of sexing hatchlings and that is if the girth of the tail is more uniform from start to finish it points at a female and when the tail has a thick base with a rapid taper it is a male [top of tail being thicker due to hemipene bulge]. Not 100% but very close with this method and if you look at your adults they mimic this on a larger scale and is more obvious due to their size and your naked eye. The hatchlings its there just a bit harder to see due to their small size in general. It has proven true with my holdbacks.
Robert

Here is a pic of one of my holdback males from 08 who has been copulating with the heavily black marked female, he is many miles apart from most of the males I have seen pics of with the detailed markings and very rich red color and black markings, now once again this is what I personally like so it depends on who you are. Ever see a woman so ugly you would be embaressed to be seen with her? Well there are guys who think she may be a Fox ha? Same thing goes for the herps:}
Robert

Another pic of same male

And yet one more pic.

I got a small clutch of 3 from a young female and only one egg calcified and was good, none the less I hatched it today.
Robert
Maxian's Collection www.herphatch.com

They color up more in a few days, here is a group pic from a couple yrs ago.
Enjoy, Robert
Maxian's Collection www.herphatch.com

Beautiful, Bob. Congratulations on the Pil, too.