2022 BrightHope pairings

[SnakeCreations]

That is fantastic! I might steal it

Enjoy!

-Tonya

 

[Caryl]

Updates: Artephius is most definitely still fertile!! When I returned from a visit with family in Oklahoma, Princess Irene had laid 14 perfect eggs. She is het Diffusion, Amel, and Stripe, likely ph Caramel, plus a couple of other ph traits. With Esperanza's clutch, that makes 32 potential babies sired by Artephius, which makes me really happy.

Sunlight and Victory both had a prenatal shed with 24 hours of my return home. Hope to get more healthy eggs soon. Thanks for looking.

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[Caryl]

Lol I won't tell him. Artephius did have two pairings, but only two (Esperanza and Princess Irene). They just happened earlier than a couple of the others. Sunlight was paired with Odin, and Victory was paired with Rubik.

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[Caryl]

I don't know why my females synchronized their laying this year, but yesterday the final two expected clutches arrived. One dam was on Day 39, the other on Day 54. I didn't want to have bunches of babies needing to be set up at the same time but I guess Mother Nature had other plans, lol. I'm thankful that all of the females laid without incident.

Here's Sunlight with her clutch of 18 eggs sired by Odin. This should prove her as Citrine, or Xanthic Snow. She's het stripe so there should be Citrines, Citrine Stripes, Caramel Ghosts and Caramel Ghost Stripes. If she's actually Xanthic Snow there will also be Anery Caramels, Anery Caramel Stripes, Xanthic Snows and Xanthic Snow Stripes.

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[Caryl]

The other clutch yesterday was from Victory, sired by Rubik. These 11 eggs look really fragile. One ruptured while she was laying. The rest have a lot of irregularities, starburst-type spots, and thin looking areas. They all candle with veins. They are all on the larger side. I'm not sure why this happened. Mom was getting a light dust of calcium and D3 every other feeding beginning about Christmas time, like all of my breeding females. I hope these make it!

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[Caryl]

This clutch should prove a lot of possible hets, and I have F2 plans for some... if the eggs make it to hatching.

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[Caryl]

Victory's eggs look a bit better after sitting overnight in the nest box. They're still not the most beautiful things. And they're big. Here's a comparative picture of yesterday's eggs. Sunlight's are in the moss. Victory's are in my hand beside Sunlight's eggs. They're so much larger, it looks like I'm holding them closer to the camera but I'm not.

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[Caryl]

Two weeks into incubation, and Victory's strange looking eggs are mostly developing well. Their texture seems okay, if a bit odd in places. All but one (orange arrow) candle with beautiful, healthy veins. I'm not going to attempt to remove that one. It'll either develop or it won't, but I don't want to disrupt it's neighbors.

There are couple of small spots of mold (green arrows). I think they're from having sat in liquid during the laying process from the egg which broke during laying. I did my best to wipe away all the goop, but I didn't want to press too hard.

It's looking as though most are still viable. So far. [emoji1696]

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[Frank Pinello]

I think they’ll do fine. I’d throw some moss over the two with mold spots.
Keep us posted.

 

[Caryl]

Thanks, Frank. I have a light layer of moss over the whole bunch. The moldy spots don't seem to be spreading so far.

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[Caryl]

I've had an interesting month so far. I'll try and post about the stranger events tomorrow. Tonight I'll just share the good news that babies are pipping! The first to arrive is Tulip's clutch by Baldr. She was one of my original purchases from Kathy Love. He's third generation BrightHope, making these babies fourth generation on their father's side. I see five little noses now. Can't wait until morning!

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[Caryl]

They started pipping on Day 62. It only seemed like forever, lol. I counted 10 eggs yet to pip as of about an hour ago. Several have emerged, then promptly disappeared into the moss.

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[Caryl]

Esperanza's clutch by Artephius is also pipping on Day 62, roughly 12 hours behind Tulip and Baldr's. I wondered if they'd hatch together. Two Caramel noses showing so far.

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[Frank Pinello]

This is definitely the fun part of breeding corns ......pipping and hatching. The first of my nine clutches are due the second week of July and most of the rest the end of July.

 

[Caryl]

This is definitely the fun part of breeding corns ......pipping and hatching. The first of my nine clutches are due the second week of July and most of the rest the end of July.

It is indeed! I love seeing what everybody gets! Gotta say, Frank, Five clutches was all I planned (not counting Sceptre's doings), and that's plenty for me! I've had Stripes piled up like spaghetti from Baldr and Tulip. Got them all sorted and set up. Many of the babies from Artephius and Esperanza are just emerging or still pippies. They're on the to-do list tomorrow. So far, plenty of healthy beautiful babies! I'm thankful.

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[Caryl]

It's been an odd year. I was going to just include Sceptre's adventures here, but in the interest of somebody who might be searching for info on retained sperm, I'm going to start a separate thread for the sixth (and unintentional) BrightHope clutch of 2022.

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[Frank Pinello]

What I have been doing over the last several years is holding back between 12 to 16 of my target (Improved and special project) hatchlings from my multiple clutches each year. I vet them out after one or two sheds and meals and then sell the rest off in bulk to local reptile stores. Along with a hand full older breeders and maybe one or two hold backs that I decide I may not need to make room for the new stock.
The hard part is parting ways with some really good High end adult breeders or one with super personalities.
I also give a few away sometimes to friends and family no charge. Don’t really make enough to cover the cost but I’m okay with that.
I Try to maintain +/- 50 corns. I find that I can keep good care of that many with my other life responsibilities.

 

[67temp]

I love good clean stripes!

 

[Caryl]

Figuring out what works for each of us is part of the challenge, isn't it? Not necessarily the easiest part, either. For me (and hubby Dan), when I decided a couple of years ago to work toward breeding again after working through the physical challenges of previous years, I had to decide which projects I really wanted pursue and what I hoped to accomplish. This meant planning for several generations, setting parameters for what I hoped to keep as well as what pickups I might want or need to make. It was (and is) a little boggling. The parameters aren't set in stone, but they do give me a framework. Keeps me from buying a "Stunning Whatever Morph" just because it's pretty, too. Would I like to have examples of every morph? Sure! But I've learned my limits the hard way. At the end of the day, I hope this discipline will result in many more productive years.

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[Caryl]

I love good clean stripes!

Me too! I've loved Stripes since I got my first corn snake. Clean, distinct striping is special (at least, I think so) and this clutch really has it. It is Tulip's last clutch, as she's going into well-deserved retirement. It's Baldr's first. Dan wants to sell Baldr since he didn't prove het Amel. Given the quality of these babies, I'm still considering keeping him anyway.

I do also love good Cubes. The messy in-betweens can be cute but I don't produce them intentionally.

Looking forward to these babies' shedding. [emoji175]

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