And I need more than glacial patience... how bout .... galactic patience?
So far the one hatchling is sitting in his slowly oozing and collapsing egg sometimes sticking his whole entire head out of the egg, and othertimes just his nose. Tends to hide when everything is boring, and when I'm peeking in at the eggs he'll stick his head out taunting me! The rest of the eggs are getting soft, one is half collapsed (well okay, severely dimpled), but none of the others seem to want to hatch. URGHLE
I have shoebox containers and an entire hatchling rack waiting for these stubborn little guys. Each with a pvc pipe hide, and a pvc end-pipe water dish. Stocked up on paper towels, have loads of newborn pinks in the freezer (not to mention more being born daily in my mouse room)... so I'M ready. Now I gotta wait until the silly hatchlings are ready.
Is it true it could take as much as three days before the rest start to pip? They were incubated at a fairly low temperature (80.5 would be a good average.... ranging from 80.1 to 82) so I really didn't expect the eggs to pip for another week or so. The one that did pip is the "lowest" in the clumb and thus the nearest the heat source I used for the first 50 days or so to keep the temperature constant. My theory is that is why it hatched earlier than the rest.
Anyway, I'm waiting, and it helps to be able to SAY I'm waiting (ie write messages here) so as to pump up the glacial/galactic patience necessary to get through this. I'm not sure if it's a blessing or an upcoming huge difficulty that the next batch is due smack dab in the middle of moving. Hopefully THOSE eggs will hold off. 
Oh well, thanks for letting me babble.
~Sasheena
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~Sasheena
Wish List:
0.1 adult Whitewater Rosy Boa
1.0 CB Spilotes Pullatus
1.0 Jungle Carpet Python
