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Got some eggs!

Tsuhei

Tsuhei

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I was pleasantly surprised this morning (around 4 am) when I found Amelia laying some lovely pearly-white eggs for me. :)

As a first time mother, she laid an impressive 20 egg clutch! (21 if you count the slug).

All of the eggs are nestled in some perlite and a teeny bit of sphagnum moss. I'm already counting down the days until they would be due to hatch (sometime in mid to late July, possibly).

Amelia is a Hypo Opal ph. Stripe, and my male, Cobbler, is a Hypo Lavender Stripe ph. Amel. :) I'm hoping that the odds are in my favor this year and we produce a lovely Hypo Opal Stripe!

Overall, outcomes should be:
Hypo Lavender h. Stripe, Amel
Hypo Opal h. Stripe
Hypo Lavender Stripe h. Amel
Hypo Opal Stripe

I'm pretty excited to see the little pink wormies already! I can't stop staring at the eggs whenever I walk by them :)

I'll post pictures of the eggs soon! :)
 
The bottom right egg looks a little discolored, but so far it seems viable. :) The countdown begins!

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Today marks day 54 of incubation! Unfortunately, out of 20 eggs (21 if you count the slug), only 13 remain; three were empty, and another three went bad halfway through incubation. However, the remaining 13 are strong and ready to pop hopefully very soon!

(taken today :))
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Finally have some hatchlings! Just two for now... one on day 69, the other on day 70. The remaining 11 eggs have not pipped yet - it seems that everyone is taking turns. :p

For now, it looks like my female is definitely het for stripe! Hatchlings are currently one Hypo Lavender het stripe & amel, the other a Hypo Lavender Stripe het amel.

Better photos will be posted later, as for now some cell phone pictures will have to do. ;)

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Here's some better pictures of the first two hatchlings. So far, two more have pipped - one is another Hypo Lavender Stripe, the other is a mystery as I haven't seen it emerge yet. The remaining nine eggs haven't pipped - it seems that everyone is going to be taking turns coming out. It is currently day 71, so I'm hoping the rest come out soon. :)

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Oh my gosh I'm dying! I love it! I'm aching for a lavender stripe or hypo lavender or hypo lavender stripe in my clutch, and so far I have hypos, a hypo stripe, and a lavender. But thanks to your post I know what the lavender stripe and hypo lavender stripe will look like! I have three pippies and three I-think-still-good-eggs left, with six fully hatch babies already out and about in the world. And like you, my girl laid a big clutch of 19, but we're down to just 12-13 good ones. My impatient group started pipping on day 59 though--a record for anything of mine by a good 6 days.

More pics! More pics!
 
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