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Ahhhh, slime!!!

rainbowsrus Jun 09, 2010 11:01 AM

The upside of yesterday was my Albino female Sierra finally dropped her litter. She's been clearly gravid for months, but gave me no clues as to when the babies would be due. No noted swellings, no POS, nothing from which to estimate a date so nothing to do but wait and check on her repeatedly. By early May she looked full of babies and ready to pop....

Since before that pic was taken, she's been on and off the heat, good little mommy keeping her temps regulated. Not eaten in months, refused all meals. Literally driving me nuts waiting. Bred by the same Anery het Snow that bred her last year that produced some really stunning babies.

Yesterday morning on my way out, quick check and there they are, big pile o' slimers in the corner and even more under the paper.....

No time to do anything as I was already late for work. So, left them in with mom and had likely the longest day at work ever, knowing there was slime waiting for me at home. And to make it worse, was shipping babies out so had to do that first.

So, after shipping out babies including one of my 2010 Reeses Pieces, I dig into the pile. Still right where they were dropped, several still in their sacks. Found 16 Albino het Snows, 15 DH snows, 3 stills and 5 slugs.......

The DH's....

And the Albino het Snows.....

Real funny coincidence....

Remember I said I shipped out a 2009 baby boa? The rack it was in is a 48 slot rack, 20 babies in the HE-RE litter. That was the third one shipped out. That left 31 empty slots in the rack. So, when I found the litter there were not enough spaces in the rack to put them, by the time I put them away, there was. Of course there are other racks, just didn't need to split them up.

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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 (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Replies (4)

AbsoluteApril Jun 09, 2010 02:28 PM

awesome Dave, glad you had some good time in the slime!
Great looking babies
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LarM Jun 09, 2010 03:42 PM

Nice big healthy litter Dave congrats !

. . . Lar M
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BrownsBoas Jun 09, 2010 08:11 PM

Congrats Dave... Her Mom is due in about week!!!
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asnakesview Jun 10, 2010 06:41 AM

Glad to see you had an upside after what happened with Reese's. Truly feel for you Dave, however baby goo always helps to make us feel better regardless. It is just hard not to get excited seeing all these pretty little animals that you had a hand in bringing into this world. Thanks for the ups and downs Dave. People a lot of the time seem to think that boa breeding is all roses. HAHAHA

Zach

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