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All eight eggs hatched last week while I was in NM. My wife did a great job of pulling the babies as they hatched. She even took pictures and emailed them to me.

Here are a few, with a final group shot.

They are nice and fat, and some are already clouding up for their first shed.
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
0.0.18 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 2000 and something

Colossians 3:17

Kent,

Seeing your new babies reminds me of why I love graybands so much, and makes me want more, as they are my favorite kingsnakes.

Congrats on the beautiful clutch!!

How are your other grayband babies doing? They eating?
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Genesis 1:1

Of my first clutch, only 4 of the 10 have eaten. I am thinking about taking them for a long drive this weekend!

With this second clutch, since they are so fat, and it is late August, I am not going to be concerned if they don't eat for a while. It will start cooling down soon, so I can put them through a short brumation this fall if I need to.
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
0.0.18 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 2000 and something

Colossians 3:17

Of my first clutch, only 4 of the 10 have eaten. I am thinking about taking them for a long drive this weekend!

With this second clutch, since they are so fat, and it is late August, I am not going to be concerned if they don't eat for a while. It will start cooling down soon, so I can put them through a short brumation this fall if I need to.
That's a nice second batch of babies!
On eating, all my pyro babies have eaten although not very often. They haven't lost weight, though, in fact most have gained. This October I am going to brumate the lot and bring them out in February.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Thanks Bob. I think I am more inclined to a short brumation, as some have suggested. I would be concerned about keeping them cold and not feeding for 4 months. I guess they do it in the wild, but I would be willing to bet they don't all make it. Of course I have nothing to back that up, just a hunch.

BTW, I actually think my rubber boas are very cool!
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
0.0.18 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 2000 and something

Colossians 3:17

When they brumate they don't use much resources so should be okay. I think that would be better than keeping them warm all winter and keeping their metabolism revved up. I may wait until November, though. Have to see how how soon and cold it gets this year. This is all predicated upon what sort of feeding activity they do between then and now.

Rubber boas are actually pretty cool.

My 08 male Mazar being very ugly and dingy this last spring. He has since brightened up again.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

They certainly do look healthy. I wish I could get my wife to help out like that.

--Dennis

I don't think she knew what she was getting into. She is not afraid of snakes, and especially thinks the babies are cute. She wasn't crazy about getting pooped on though, and said that when one of them bit her it was a surprise.

I had planned this trip to NM several months ago, before I knew when the eggs would be laid, let alone when they would be hatching. She has been a good sport about it, so I ought to take her out to dinner.
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
0.0.18 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 2000 and something

Colossians 3:17

Thats a great looking group shot. Your wife did great!. My 10 are ready to shed and I'm going to hold off pics until after 1st feeding attempt. They are all individually housed and seem reclusive of course. Are you going with anole scented on next attempt with non eaters or something else? Dave.

Not sure what I will try yet. The four that have eaten are taking f/t anoles with a pinky chain-fed. I also still have some live anoles, but they are growing fast (its amazing how many crickets they go through!)

The 6 non-eaters have shown no interest in live anoles, f/t anoles, scented pinkies, live pinkies. I was thinking about trying dipping the pinkies in egg-white. I was also thinking about taking them for a long drive.

I really don't want to go the force-feeding route. So if they don't eat, I will cool them this fall and hope for the best.
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
0.0.18 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 2000 and something

Colossians 3:17

"Nah, I don't want that!"
Pinks are snake broccoli.
Number One did just eat a small fence lizard. I was hoping he would eat the pinky, too, but nope. At least he did eat the lizard all on his own. Lots of little lizards are hatching on my property now, so I can catch them for my baby pyros.
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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, what has worked for me with my four that are eating is to chain feed a f/t pinky as the hatchling is finishing a lizard.

Hear is #1 eating its first pinky, with the anole's tail still sticking out of its mouth.
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
0.0.18 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 2000 and something

Colossians 3:17

That was my plan but I turned my back on the snake to answer the phone and he had the lizard GONE in a couple minutes! I didn't want to wrestle him into eating the pink, too, as the opportunity for chain feeding had passed.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.