Good news for Joecop... me not so much.
I burmate most my milks in Coles crawlspace under his house, but I do keep two wine cooler fridges in my house for animals I want to check up on more often. Yesterday I checked the wine cool animals to see if their water bowls were full, and found one of my pride and joy hypo syspila dead next to its half full water bowl. All the other milks in the 43 degree coolers were fine.
I thought I'd give a history of this animals life, passing as a type of memorial or memento to his brief life. His grandmother is a het. for hypo. giant of a Red milk I call The Gorilla Syspila. She was bred to a hypo male that she promptly ate. She has tried to eat every male she has ever been bred to.
Despite her wickedness she is a great milk to have in a collection.
Here she is.
She laid these two hypo hold backs, that I babied along for 4 years.
♂
♀
After 4 years I tried to breed them and got a clutch of dud eggs. The next year I bred them, and received two eggs for my work. One egg went south quickly, while the other egg limped along, it grew mold on it, which I fought off with anti-fungal cream. Things didn't bode well but the egg looked good still. After 75 days it pipped, and out came this tiny hypo. hatchling.
A nice tiny hard to feed ♂.
I waited two weeks until I tried force feeding him a small tail, and did that for 8 weeks until I started offering the smallest pink heads I could provide. The first one he refused, but the following week he took the pink head and never missed another feeding opportunity. He grew into a screamer of a hypo.
I've had his parents drop a few hypo clutches over the years that have been sold off, but I always held on to him because of his unique history, and never planned on letting him go. Because of that I never took a good subadult or adult photo of him. This is the last photo I have of him with another hypo from another clutch from a few years ago....Damit.
-Dell
