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Geez, what this girl had to go through to finally be born and make it into this world. She is a triple het tricolor from extreme line (last picture below). Father is a Hypo extreme het anery and mother is a snow (from a Tricolor line).

First, let me tell you how it all happened. After the snow female did her first shedding on Feb 25, I tried mating her with the hypo extreme within the next couple of weeks....but to no avail. By around March 27, I expected her to turn 'blue' for her next shedding phase. She was eating ravenously and has been consistent with her shed approx every 30-35 days. By April 12, she showed no signs of turning 'blue' prior the shedding and I noticed pea bumps inside her as she crawled on my hands...She's only 20 months in April but she already weighed 600, so the pea bumps indicated to me that she was ovulating...hence, I let her mate with the hypo extreme three times (April 12, 14, 16).
On May 6 she laid one slug. On May 10 she laid another slug. And later on May 12 she laid six more slug...all outside the nest box. Finally, the next day on May 13, she laid a large egg. It had a slightly yellowish color spot on one corner but I figured that there was still a good chance that it was fertile. I tried the candle/flashlight method to see if it was fertile but wasn't sure upon examination. I still placed that lone egg in the incubator. Well, 62 days later, she hatched yesterday 7-15-2009. I was hoping for an anery het hypo extreme and het albino...but happily content with a female triple het tricolor. I really like the mask pattern on her head.

Mother snow is a first time breeder, but what an ordeal for that baby snake. The father is almost 3 years old now, and also a first time parent.

Picture below are the Snow mother, Extreme Father, and the triple het baby honduran milksnake.

I think I will keep her and breed her back to her father when she matures a couple of years later...

Thanks for reading...

Ray
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RAY - "Laziness is nothing more than a habit of resting before getting tired!"

I know the feeling! My extreme 66% het anery bred a hypo female for the first time this year. She's been in her nest box, her pre-lay shed was last week, I'm thinking of soaking her in warm water tomarrow.... Actually today I looked in her box and she had escaped, auurrgg, but she was close by....Three, maybe four eggs, I don't know, she's fat, I'm probably jinxing it just by mentioning.....
Good job, one's better than none.....

hope yours turn out to have some good eggs. keep me posted and am crossing my fingers for you.

Good luck.

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RAY - "Laziness is nothing more than a habit of resting before getting tired!"