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Breeding for 2012

wildlifephotographer

Corn snakes rule!
I have started to breed with only one of my corn snakes so far. Since I could not get Kasper and Rose to hook up yet this year I decided to try Kasper and Zoe. I'm hoping I'll get some variety with these two like I did last year with Rose and Kasper.
I actually put them together before the end of last year and already have 10 healthy corn snake eggs incubating right now! She laid 13 eggs for me but three were no good. They should hatch in the first week or so of March soooo I have my fingers crossed and just wanted to let everyone know I'll have squirmy little snake babies soon! :)
I'll be adding photos of them hatching on here and also add photos of them afterwards ofcourse plus put them up on my website.
I still have 3 babies from Rose and Kasper last years clutch and am trying to find homes for them.
My next attempt will be in about a month to breed Kasper and Rose, and also Kasper and my oldest girl Diamond.
With Zoe already done for this year unless she double clutches for me I will not be breeding her anymore this year. She lost a lot of weight even though I fed her well before breeding her to Kasper. She lost 110 grams. But she's back at eating on a regular schedule and seems otherwise healthy.
I've been through a lot since the last time I was logged on here. I broke up with my boyfriend and moved back in with my mom, sister-her husband and their three kids. I had to move all my snakes including Zoe while she was still gravid, and the babies that I had left. I lost one baby from it not eating on it's own ever since it hatched last July and it died the night I was moving them to my mom's house. But the little ghost corn that I was having such a hard time getting to eat started to eat for me in November and now he's eating for me like a champ, and growing big now. He's got a little temper to him as well so he's a fiesty little guy, usually when he's in the shedding stage otherwise he is mostly very calm. I also have an Amel, which has calmed down very nicely for me and a normal baby left that is a little jumpy but not fiesty and the normal is very long and slender, but eats pretty well for me. The amel is very prettily marked and eats very well for me. I wish I could keep them all but I cannot. Well, just wanted to update everyone on here about what is going on with me and my snakes. Hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year so far. :)
 
Update, successfully mated Diamond and Kasper yesturday afternoon around 3:19-3:42pm. I'm hoping she will lay some viable eggs this time. In about a month or so I should find out. :)
Zoe is doing well since laying her eggs in Jan. she has gained a lot of weight back and looks good. Glad about that. Her eggs are almost half way through the incubation process and are still looking great. I'm getting really excited about all this breeding!
 
Awesome! Glad Diamond and Kasper paired up for you and Zoe is doing good!

Can't wait to see pictures of the babies!!
 
Babies are Hatching!

Fwww....I'm very excited to anounce that my corn snake eggs started to hatch yesterday on March 13, 2012 while I was on my way home from a very long, exausting trip from Texas. So when I got home around 10pm last night I checked on them to see how many were popping out so far. Right now I have one fully out of the egg, and 4 more sticking their cute little noses out, and 2 left that haven't started to hatch yet.
So far from what I can see, I have one ghost, one hypo, two anery's and the one that came out fully is I think an Amel. The amel has a perfect heart shape on it's head and a heart shape in the middle of him on one of his/her blotches. It's so cute. Here are pics so far....:)
 

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So right now at 11:15pm I have three babies out and three sticking noses out and one that hasn't started to hatch yet. Fully out babies= One very gorgeous heart shaped headed amel I think that has the heart shape blotch on it as well. Then a very unusual looking normal that is very beautiful and one that looks like a ghost corn that is also very pretty.
Will add more pics in the morning when hopefully they will all be out of their eggs....
 
Baby 2

Here are some photos of baby 2 not 100% sure if its a normal or hypo. Anyone got suggestions on what it might be? It's really pinkish/white inbetween the sadles and looks like a normal just really different then what I've seen before.
 

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Baby 3

Here are some pics of baby 3-ghost corn.
 

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Baby 4

I think this is such a pretty ghost corn, it's very pale and light for a ghost.
 

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