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Baby number four hatched yesterday and I was afraid it didn't even have a vent, but this morning I examined it in the light of day, and it pooped on me! I will keep it and name it Stubz. Obviously not a future breeder, just another odd pet. It looks less thick in the middle now, too, just a little dude with a kinked tail.

Number five. Hatched late this afternoon. It is perfect, no kinks. They all seem to have full bellies right after hatching, am assuming that is yolk to be digested.

They all do the oddest thing once they hatch; they go directly to the north east corner of the pan. Everything is the same in the pan so why go to the north east corner? Number six is well pipped. I looks like Edward Scissorhands did the pipping. I can see it in one of the slits. Nothing with number 7 yet.

My fence lizard laid 9 eggs yesterday which are now in the incubator in their own little container.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Very nice! You've really got me thinking...
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) cornsnakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded kingsnakes, blairs phase, 2008
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 200?

>They look like they ate their twins, that was in the eggs with them, lol. Maybe they are heading toward or away from the light, like in poltergeist?
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

Very nice hatchlings Bob! They sure do have some nice yolk reserves there..LOL!

It's weird about hatchlings, They almost always huddle together in a big pile together after hatching. I usually find that it is the further darkest corner they will usually congregate in, but I'm sure there are always some exceptions to this.

With a HUGE clutch of 33 corns I produced the other year(for just one example), ALL 33 would be piled into one little hide box I had in with them until they shed their first time and were sexed. Them being very nocturnal, when I flicked the light on at night, every single one would be out crawling around in the shoebox like one writhing mass of worms. Every morning all 33 would be packed like sardines again in the little hide box..LOL!

Glad the kink wasn't too bad..

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Cograts again on your clutch Bob!!! They look great with some big yolk reserves!! Don't be surprised if they take a while to eat with all that yolk they have to live on. Sure is a nice thing to have some baby lizards cooking and on hand. They will come in handy!

Joe

Congratulations on all the babies Bob. Glad for your success. The little guy with the kink, doesn't look like its too bad and as you said he is functioning well. He'll be a good pet.

--Dennis

Congrats, but because they did all go to the same place, means there is something about that place. You just do not understand it, or have the ability to understand it.

It could be as simple as the first one went there, so the rest followed. Which occurs in nature.

Or it could be something you do not know how to measure, smell for instance, that attracts them. Or both.

again congrats and enjoy those beautiful snakes

Six is still in the egg but looks like it will emerge soon. Seven pipped during the night.

As they hatch I remove them to their own tubs. As FR said, I think there is something about the north east corner of the pan that I can't detect. The pan is in complete darkness in the incubator. Maybe they all want to go to the north east side of the mountain? When I put them in their tubs they all go right into their moist sphagnum moss hides. Like they are seeking a humid cool place to prepare for their first shed. So maybe they have some sort of GPS that tells them where the best direction to find those conditions is?

Thank You all for the kind words!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Don't miss this oppertunity to have fun and learn.

Please do some simple tests. Try putting a moist paper towel on the other end of the box. Rung out, not wet, just not dry.

See what that does, then after a couple of days put another in, at the other end of the cage. Then see what happens

please consider, do not make answers, just make observations. This is very hard to do, its called prejiduce. That is, you make answers or conclusions, without a complete set of data. Please that is so very hard to do.

When doing field work, our biggest task is not observing the animals, but keeping from making conclusions.

So yes, test and test again, pretty soon, you will have a whole new reason to keep reptiles and a better understanding of what they are.

I guess it's too late to juggle them and see which ones hatch?
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
Jorge Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

Six was the egg that had the big gashes in it, the Edward Scizzorhands one. When I checked them and saw that seven was half out but six looked the same, I got worried and took egg six and its attached empty egg out to at least do a post mortem...but the egg was empty! Where the devil was the baby! It was not in the north east corner like I found the others. I lifted up the pan and looked underneath, even though I have the lid to the pan clamped on firmly. Then I looked in the pan in the south west corner, and there it was behind a bull snake egg. Talk about conditioning; it only took five similar events to make me fail to look a few inches to the left. In my defense, though, the baby was pointed to the south west like it had crawled from the north east already.

It is a sturdy 9.5 grams. I forgot to weigh the others so will do so after they shed. Then I will post new pictures of every one, too.

Thank you all for the continuing interest and praise on this clutch hatch.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Bob,

Great pics of beautiful snakes, my friend.
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Genesis 1:1

They look awesome, congrats! post some pics when they shed please

Jeremy Thompson
Captive Born Investments Inc.

All are very nice Bob......congratulations.....glad you are having a blast!
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...