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Decided to take a few new pictures tonight. Enjoy.

The two little ones are doing great so far just waiting on the rest of this batch. It's funny these two hatched a week apart to the hour.
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Great pics, and congrats again. Keep up the good work.

Scott
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

They're adorable! Congrats! How manydid she lay, and how long was the incubation?

Leslie

Thanks.

My female ended up multi-clutching. I got 3 clutches in four months out of her and I had little to do with that. The first clutch consisted of 25 eggs of which these two have hatched. Waiting on the last 23 but they look great and all candle well so I guess it's just a matter of waiting. As it is those two were a week apart to the hour literally, which I found to be very interesting.
It ended up taking a total of 151 days for the first to hatch and a 158 days for the second. So I can at least say they were on time according to the books.

Thanks again for the compliment I will make sure to breed her as often as she wants on her terms and just get as many cb babies as I can into the market, not that I expect anything from it but it is nice to have variety rite?

Regards-
JC

Yes, by all means keep those cb babies coming. It may not make a dent in all the imports, but at least people like me who prefer to buy not only captive bred, but direct from the breeder will have a reputable source. My sav is an adult rescue, but I sure love the little ones. Now if I can just convince my husband to add a room to the house.....LOL Well, maybe if I take down the bed in the spare room...I've already kicked the kids out...

Leslie

congrats! nice work!

n/p
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1.0 Normal Corn Snake
1.0 Ball Python
1.0 BCI
0.1 California King

Of course I have said congrats a bunch of times, so I will skip it and go right to the eggs.

I bet, you will have eggs from several clutches hatch before all hatch from the first clutch. Yep, thats my bet, wanta bet?

All in all, the time from the first pipped sav and the second is not of meaning. Just is, I guess. You will see, all different times.

But sir, I have to ask, to the hour, what do you do, sit and watch them 24/7????????????????? ?????

Good luck and of course, congrats FR

Frank, as always,
thank you for the congrats and enthusiasm.

Yeah I think your very correct in the hatch time from these clutches, I will put my money with yours and go for it being completely random, if one of those later clutches does pip before this one is finished I will be sure to let you know,hahaha.

I just was caught off guard as a first time breeder. I wasn't purposely checking on them all the time, but it was coincidental that I went to turn off my lights in the reptile room and out of habit checked the incubator. It's just funny that in keeping to my regular schedule I caught the pipping each time and from my calendar notes, noticed that it was within the same hour.

Now I do have another question. About feeding these little ones, I know small dusted crickets is the way to go, but when is it appropriate to offer? it has been one week since the first one hatched, and three days since the second. Neither animals seems to be looking for food or drinking, that I have seen anyway.
Any rule of thumb with this?

Cheers-
JC

There is no rule of thumb. dang again.

I usually do not cut them out of the eggs, hahahahahahahahahahaha, so, my time period is different.

I normally let them hatch at their leisure, then I let them stay in the box until the harden up. That is also an individual thing. Some take longer then others. Commonly 3 to 7 days.

On the other hand, we have had them eat the day they hatch.

So throw out the thumbs and stay with it. Cheers FR

If exanthematicus are anything like my monitors, the pipping within the same hour (separated by a week) of the two eggs is more a sign of what time you check the incubator than what time they have pipped. Unless of course, on both occasions you opened the incubator just as they were in the process of pipping, or open the door on the hour. Once they slit the shell, it may look exactly the same for 24 hours.

My hatchlings have started eating anywhere from three days to over a week and a half after hatching, depending on how much yolk reserve they hatched with. The ones with the roundest bellies on hatching took the longest. They didn't seem interested in crickets at first so I left assorted chopped food in there (mice, chicks, turkey diet) and that soon did the trick.

when I was 8 i watched my northern alligator lizard female have her babies, probably more like 16 hours a day, but then again i am still a geek.

lol,

andrew