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The two little pingpong ball eggs from my Kingsville Red x Stillwater Hypo bull snake hatched today. None of the others are pipped yet, even though they are big healthy eggs, some even denting. ( Two clutches in photo, eight furthest away are gopher snake eggs.) I almost tossed the pingpong eggs out when I loaded the incubator, but thought what the heck give them a chance.

The spicy little pingpong babies; ate big pinks right after hatching!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

WOW! Love the color on those two Bob! Will be interesting to see how they develop. Were those round eggs laid early or late in the series (clutch)? Worth hanging onto though regardless of shape.
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“You could have a snake for 30 years and the second you leave his cage door cracked, he’s gone, and they’ll never come to you unless you’re holding a mouse in your teeth.” (Bill Haast, 1997).

They were the last laid, sort of like afterthoughts. I thought they were some sort of slugs but they had a nice white shell so I kept them. I am sort of puzzled as to why they hatched first. Reptile eggs never cease to surpise me. I had a clutch of fence lizard eggs that took 90 days to hatch instead of the usual 54 to 65 days. But they were 100% hatch with very nice hatchlings.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

the one looks to be a red. congrats on the hatchlings!

Thanks!
Yes, that one looks pretty red already. Its grandmother was a very red Kingsville red.
The third small slightly bigger than ping pong ball)egg has now pipped with little head poking out but the big eggs have not pipped. Wonder why these three little eggs are hatching first!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

smaller eggs have less room for yolk.

That explains why they were so hungry right out of the egg, more so than usual.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.