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Last night I offered four 2010 hypo coastals f/t pinks for the first time! 3 of 4 took them right off the forceps and the fourth ate a pink left in her cage overnight! That's four for four! I love it when the TLC I give these guys pays off.
Tonight I'll try four more!
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“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” Emmerson
Great feeling for sure. Congrats.
Tony, can you post some pics of the little bugger?
3 new hondos...and all three ate right after their first shed!
It really takes a lot of stress away for sure!
Congrats!
-R
Hondos eat anything, even people. Coastals eat nothing,lol. Great job Tony! Want to share how you keep them so we can bring coastals back into the hobby? TLC??
Tease feed tails multiple times a week for several weeks till they are large enough to take the smallest pinks you've got. I use the middle third of an adult tail. The small end is dipped in a mix of RepCal and HerpVite and the large end is dipped in clean tap water as a lubricant. @ twice a week this can take as little as 5 weeks. Last years animals were stubborn. This year they did really well. A lot depends on how small they hatch out.
In my experience thin females have fewer but larger eggs while heavier females have a lot of small ones. When dealing with animals that require a lot of attention to get started, high production is not always a good thing. The brood I'm working with now was a clutch of ten which is well above my average clutch size of ~6 eggs hence they were smaller and took more time to get rolling.
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“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” Emmerson
bigger eggs ...better...you bet
I hatched at too high a temp...some babies were smallish....
this year.....most fed but ....OC NJ striped line coastals...7 babies...6 ate..all dead.....St Mary ...all ate...1.3 alive ,2 dead...male kinked....(first clutch 10 all laid in water bowl)......a pair of Tyrell babies I bought...female ate Peromyscus legs....both dead.....(sorry)...bad year....did the tail thing.....
next year....all eggs hatched at cooler level.....and any that don't eat get thrown in fridge for 3 weeks...?...I'll try it and see if it works....
good luck all......
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........JY
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