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2014 corn breeding at Elemental Exotics.

Tavia

Tavia

Elemental Exotics
Only doing one breeding of corns this year. Vash, Phantom Masque, poss het Amel x Stormy, Phantom, suspected Masque, poss het Amel. Yesterday was the first witnessed lock between them I have seen.

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Well, Stormy just shed last night and looks hugely gravid right now, so I'm hoping for eggs in the next few days!
 
Thanks! Stormy has spent all day rearranging her viv and in and out of the lay box. Has spilled her (small) water bowl a few times. So hopefully she will give me some nice eggs soon! Hopefully she will also deposit them in the proper place ...
 
Stormy started laying eggs awhile ago. Up to three great looking fertile eggs that I can see so far.
 
Here are some pictures. If I counted right, there are 26 eggs in this clutch with one maybe a bit iffy.

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Here is Stormy, a bit deflated after losing 204 grams from laying her eggs. And I miss counted, not surprising after as little sleep as I had at the time. There are 27 eggs.

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Here are some more egg pictures, two look slightly iffy but the others are looking very good.

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This one is the only one not connected to the others and despite what seems to be good humidity, has dented in. It does however have good veins at the moment.

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Then the middle one at the bottom of the picture is the other iffy one that had a window and is smaller than all of the others. It has no veins that I can see but is not positioned well for candling. It is firmly connected to other eggs.

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Well, I think the little iffy looking egg might be a dud but the one that was dented in I carefully placed in the clump of the others, it had been off to the side, and it plumped back up.
 
The little egg that was iffy looking right from the start began to grow some pretty impressive mold, so it either went bad or was a dud from the start. Luckily I was able to fairly easily detach it from the other two eggs it was hooked to this morning and dispose of it.
 
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