The snot is the albumen leaking out of the baby bull snake eggs which are hatching today. I know they aren't king snakes but had to share the joy! All that albumen is pretty disgusting, although perfectly normal! The babies have poked their entire heads out of the pips but are very alert; when I took their photo they ducked back inside the egg. When my pyro eggs were hatching the babies didn't seem to mind being seen.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
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Lots of Snot!
pyromaniac
Aug 05, 2011 06:52 PM
Replies (4)
mrkent
Aug 05, 2011 08:42 PM
Congrats. I bet those will be easy to feed!
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Kent
1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
0.0.10 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 2000 and something
Colossians 3:17
pyromaniac
Aug 06, 2011 06:12 PM
Easy doesn't even come close! They are all eating right out of the egg! What a pleasant break from the slow starting pyros. At least all my baby snakes are eating now, pits and pyros both.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.
tgcorley
Aug 06, 2011 05:27 PM
Are you sure it's snot? I think it's not snot.
It is cool to see the pippers blowing bubbles as their lungs are "drying out". Definitely a miraculous process in action. Please post pictures of the babies when they are out!
pyromaniac
Aug 06, 2011 06:09 PM
First two. The hypo looking one is enormous, weighing over 33 grams while the other four are weighing in at about 29 grams each. As they hatch I remove them from the incubator and offer a live pinky; all have eaten. Only one hypo. Guess which one is the holdback! LOL!
One egg failed to hatch but I was able to harvest the dead snake and feed bits of it to my two little pyros who just don't like pinkies. They swallow the snakes bits readily. I froze the rest for future feedings.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.
