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Zoey the bull snake this morning.

Her eggs in incubator. The little clump of eggs in the center are pyro eggs halfway through incubation. The nine big eggs are Zoey's. This is the only incubator I have so they will have to incubate together. The pyro eggs are halfway through incubation so I think things will work out okay.

I realized Zoey was gravid a few weeks ago, and commenced to worry as she is very young even though she is over four feet long and was in good condition going into this thing. To compound my worries she laid one egg on May 30 in the evening and I found it in the aspen, like it had taken her by surprise. It is the egg in the lower left hand of the photo. It looks okay, I think. I've seen less pretty eggs hatch, so there is hope for it, as well as for a couple of the others which look not perfect. The rest of the eggs were properly laid in her moist sphagnum moss nest. She successfully laid all her eggs and has no retained eggs or slugs.

Needless to say I am profoundly relieved! I think she is, too!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Congrats Bob! She looks happy
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Thanks!
This morning I had to go to town for a few hours, so I left a big handful of plump live fuzzies in her nest with her. When I came home she had eaten them and she actually hissed at me! Normally she never hisses at me, or even buzzes her tail much. I was happy to see she was full of spunk (not her mate's spunk, though! LOL! He has been moved to separate quarters for awhile). I'll feed her every couple days and get her weight back up in no time.

Here she is in February 2010. She is the one on the right. Her mate is on the left. They are more golden in color now, and of course much bigger. I didn't think (D'OH!) that they would mate this year. It's a good thing I am not raising teenagers!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Thats a nice looking pair. Good luck with those eggs.

Thanks!
A couple of photos taken this morning:

Alfonzo

Zoey; looking thin but at the rate she is eating will plump up quickly.

It is sort of unorthodox to have the two separate clutches in the same incubating pan, but they require the same temps, and will hatch at different times, so I think this will work.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.