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Nine baby pyros! Dotz and Mazar did a good job for the third year in a row. One egg left to hatch. Dotz lays such a heavy calcium layer on her eggs it is impossible to candle it but I think it is good, just a slow one.

The proud parents. Dotz is the one with the dot on her neck.
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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 Bob. Glad for your continued success.

--Dennis

Thanks, Dennis! I am amazed that this happens successfully. I feel like a newbie, so much to still learn.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Sweet. Congrats. That's a good sized clutch. What's the average sized clutch for Pyros?

reako45

My friend who does pyros (some of my breeding stock are his line) gets an average of 6 eggs per clutch. The smallest clutch I have this year is 6, and the other is 10, plus this nine and possibly 10 baby clutch. I have read that between three and 10 is normal.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Nice! I like the variation in this clutch. You might want to slit that remaining egg open manually, babies have been known to die when they couldn't cut the egg themselves in time, for whatever reason. Usually graybands but it could happen with anything.
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Yes, I may just do that this morning. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

There does appear to be a living baby in this egg I just slit. Since making the slit it has widened and I take that to mean the baby is moving around.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Severely deformed with one tiny little snout complete with egg tooth on neck. Was already dead. But got 9 perfect ones so all is good.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

That is a really wierd one! I had a corn snake egg that the exact same scenario happened with recently.

--Dennis

Bummer but 9 is very good for pyros IMHO.
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Thats for sure.

--Dennis

Am over all very pleased with my perfect babies.
katiya-junkyard.blogspot.com/2013/03/embryogenic-development-of-reptilean.html
At any step of the way things can go wrong. It is actually a miracle that mainly the babies come out perfect.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.