SquamishSerpents
Katia
We've kind of been away from corns a little bit; our corn season was a bit devastating with an incubator malfunction that resulted in the loss of all of our eggs, save for one clutch that hatched before the malfunction. Pretty upset about that, but you live, you learn, we built our own incubator which runs flawlessly now, so keep your fingers crossed for the 2013 corn season for us, please!
Now for the ball python side of things...This has been a pretty long project for us and it has finally come full circle. In 2008 we bought an adult albino female (for $1400 :S); our second ball python, and bred her about 4 months after getting her:
She was paired with our original spider male (from Mike @ The Hidebox):
She produced a clutch of 6 eggs. It was slightly disappointing for our first ever BP clutch. One het. Albino hatchling emerged with most of it's yolk unabsorbed and a twisted umbilical cord and did not make it. Another Spider 100% het. Albino hatched with what appeared to be a pretty severe kink. We gave him away to my cousin and she still has him. His kink is barely noticeable and he is gorgeous! We got 3 more 100% het. Albinos. 2 we traded away for an adult BRB (who we have since sold) and one was sold to a friend. As well as that, we got another Spider 100% het. Albino, and he is a SERIOUS looker. So so so in love with him.
Here is a baby photo of the holdback Spider het. Albino:
And him as an adult (breeding a het. Albino female):
So anyways, we held him back, grew him up, and now we have some awesome babies from him! This clutch is not actually from our original albino female, but a second one that we picked up in Feb 2012.
But you know when you're really really hoping for a certain morph, and the clutch starts hatching, and then you just get this sinking, niggling feeling of "ohhhhh, don't get your hopes up, there's a pretty good chance you won't get what you want?" Well I definitely felt that, even though for the duration of incubation I just had a really good feeling we would hatch the desired morph. This was definitely our most exciting clutch ever, with it being our first potential for hatching a double morph, and on top of that, it was a dominant/recessive morph we were after.
Well the first egg pipped; a cute, very nice albino. The second egg pipped, and it was our double!!! We got our spider albino!!! I was FLOORED. Over the moon happy!!! I'm not going to lie I definitely squealed and did a little dance. But when the third egg pipped, and it was another Spider Albino, I about died. I believe I actually said out loud" Oh wow are you kidding me!?" then some boring het. Albinos hatched (jokingggggggg!)...and THEN the last egg....
IT'S ANOTHER #$*@&%^ SPIDER ALBINO!?!?!!??!
That brings this clutch to
1.2 Spider Albinos
1.0 Albino
1.1 het. Albinos
To say I'm over the moon is an understatement. I honestly cannot even believe this.
I could not possibly be happier with the way this season went here at Squamish Serpents.
THANK YOU if you read all this crazy babbling; now you are rewarded with pictures! CANNOT WAIT until these ones have their first sheds!! I will update again once they have their new skin
Now for the ball python side of things...This has been a pretty long project for us and it has finally come full circle. In 2008 we bought an adult albino female (for $1400 :S); our second ball python, and bred her about 4 months after getting her:
She was paired with our original spider male (from Mike @ The Hidebox):
She produced a clutch of 6 eggs. It was slightly disappointing for our first ever BP clutch. One het. Albino hatchling emerged with most of it's yolk unabsorbed and a twisted umbilical cord and did not make it. Another Spider 100% het. Albino hatched with what appeared to be a pretty severe kink. We gave him away to my cousin and she still has him. His kink is barely noticeable and he is gorgeous! We got 3 more 100% het. Albinos. 2 we traded away for an adult BRB (who we have since sold) and one was sold to a friend. As well as that, we got another Spider 100% het. Albino, and he is a SERIOUS looker. So so so in love with him.
Here is a baby photo of the holdback Spider het. Albino:
And him as an adult (breeding a het. Albino female):
So anyways, we held him back, grew him up, and now we have some awesome babies from him! This clutch is not actually from our original albino female, but a second one that we picked up in Feb 2012.
But you know when you're really really hoping for a certain morph, and the clutch starts hatching, and then you just get this sinking, niggling feeling of "ohhhhh, don't get your hopes up, there's a pretty good chance you won't get what you want?" Well I definitely felt that, even though for the duration of incubation I just had a really good feeling we would hatch the desired morph. This was definitely our most exciting clutch ever, with it being our first potential for hatching a double morph, and on top of that, it was a dominant/recessive morph we were after.
Well the first egg pipped; a cute, very nice albino. The second egg pipped, and it was our double!!! We got our spider albino!!! I was FLOORED. Over the moon happy!!! I'm not going to lie I definitely squealed and did a little dance. But when the third egg pipped, and it was another Spider Albino, I about died. I believe I actually said out loud" Oh wow are you kidding me!?" then some boring het. Albinos hatched (jokingggggggg!)...and THEN the last egg....
IT'S ANOTHER #$*@&%^ SPIDER ALBINO!?!?!!??!
That brings this clutch to
1.2 Spider Albinos
1.0 Albino
1.1 het. Albinos
To say I'm over the moon is an understatement. I honestly cannot even believe this.
I could not possibly be happier with the way this season went here at Squamish Serpents.
THANK YOU if you read all this crazy babbling; now you are rewarded with pictures! CANNOT WAIT until these ones have their first sheds!! I will update again once they have their new skin
