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1.5 y/o tiny girl laid 7 eggs!! HELP!

Kyra Omega said:
Sorry it took so long to respond and Thank you all for all of your help!

So.. I talked to my friend who was giving the snaked fresh water for me every 2 days while I was gone and asked if there was any possible way that she was together with any of the other snakes that I have. He told me that to his knowledge the snakes were never together alone.... I asked what he meant and he said his 9 y/o boy was with him helping to water the snakes and spot clean their cages.. He said his son would hold the snakes 2 at a time but never left them alone together.

Is it possible they could have mated while the kid was holding them? Naughty baby snakes....

Anyway.. The eggs looked like they plumped up a bit and the shells didn't look quite so thick after a week. I decided to keep them to see what a "iiffy" Would look like after a few weeks and becoming a slug. But the eggs seemed to look better and better. SO I finally candled them as Squeamish Serpents suggested. I was very careful not to rotate any of the eggs when I did it and in at least 2 I saw veins!!!

I thought back to when I discovered them which was May 20th and realised it has hit the 60 day mark.... The eggs (because I thought them slugs) Have been at temps varying from 80-87 during the day and 75-80 at night. I keep them in a spare room in a tuperware and the AC is off during the day when I am at work but on at night when I am home. I plan on candling them again to see if there was more development but if all is well I should be seeing pips in about 10-20 more days right?

Thanks
Kyra
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both of my corn clutches this year have began to hatch on day 53, with temps about 85 degrees. i would think yours should have hatched by now, but if you're seeing movement, just leave them alone.

if they are fertile and there are babies in there, i would be expecting them to hatch literally any day now. do you have containers ready?

and i'm going to go with yes, definitely possible they could have mated during handling, though i'm not sure how effective it would have been. my first 2 corns i ever had, i thought were both female. i found out my Snow was a male when i was holding them together, and all of a sudden one of his penes was waving about, LOL!!!

good luck with everything!
 
Yep I have a bunch of little tupperwares ready with apple juice lids for water bowls... I was planning on breeding my butter female and xanthic snow next year and have been collecting the supplies i figured I would need so I am pretty well stocked. Now it is just a waiting game.

The temperatures have not been steady at all... they go with the temperature of the day. So at night they cool down to probably about 76-78 and then rise as the sun comes out maxing at about 85-90 then cooling back down as the sun sets.

When I checked them today I noticed a different smell in the container. Not unpleasent, just different so maybe they will be coming out soon. I am starting to get excited and I can't wait to see 7 little noses peeking out from those eggs.
 
If they are all amels are you going to try to get them tested to see if they are clones of the mother. That would be so cool.
 
They Hatched!

Again sorry for the delay in the response. So all 7 eggs hatched and they were all little Amels! So cute! One of them (the egg that was seperate from the rest) Had 3 bad kinks in his neck. I waited a month to see if they would straighten or if he would eat. They didn't and he wouldn't so I put him to sleep the other day. SO sad, because he was real cute.

The other 6 babies all seem to be doing really well. 2 of the 6 have had 2 meals with no problems. The other 4 still don't seem to interested in eating... So I will try again in a few days. I have talked to a pet store and they are willing to trade even knowing about the feeding issues of the 4... I am now trying to decide... there is a cute patternless anery stripe, but it is a new hatchling the same age as mine.... or a possible sunglow amel that is about 3 years old (or just a really nice amel) ... ah the choices....

I would love to get them tested genetically to see if they were clones or fathered by my snow Zero... but alas that is expensive and I don't have those kinds of resources...

The "dad", or suspected dad just passed on... It was really sad... I noticed he was constipated and gave him a warm bath ... he pooed a little but was still swollen at the tail end. It was 8pm so no herp vets were open. I decided that if he didn't poo by morning I would take him to the vet.... but he didn't make it...

R.I.P. Zero the Snow.... But "his" progeny lives on...
 
Kyra Omega said:
Again sorry for the delay in the response. So all 7 eggs hatched and they were all little Amels! So cute! One of them (the egg that was seperate from the rest) Had 3 bad kinks in his neck. I waited a month to see if they would straighten or if he would eat. They didn't and he wouldn't so I put him to sleep the other day. SO sad, because he was real cute.

The other 6 babies all seem to be doing really well. 2 of the 6 have had 2 meals with no problems. The other 4 still don't seem to interested in eating... So I will try again in a few days. I have talked to a pet store and they are willing to trade even knowing about the feeding issues of the 4... I am now trying to decide... there is a cute patternless anery stripe, but it is a new hatchling the same age as mine.... or a possible sunglow amel that is about 3 years old (or just a really nice amel) ... ah the choices....

I would love to get them tested genetically to see if they were clones or fathered by my snow Zero... but alas that is expensive and I don't have those kinds of resources...

The "dad", or suspected dad just passed on... It was really sad... I noticed he was constipated and gave him a warm bath ... he pooed a little but was still swollen at the tail end. It was 8pm so no herp vets were open. I decided that if he didn't poo by morning I would take him to the vet.... but he didn't make it...

R.I.P. Zero the Snow.... But "his" progeny lives on...
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But in a way.... you still have him with you, don't you? <3
 
Wow Congrats and I am sorry about the kinked one. It is funny that you gave an update today cause I was just looking at the calender and my eggs from my year old baby should be hatching in the next week in a half or so.
 
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