Hatched! Li'l Loner.:)

[Pasodama]

Had a double clutch from the pairing of Phantom 100% het Amel, Anery, Blood X Classic 100% het Blood, Hypo, Lavender 50% het Charcoal.
In this clutch there was only one fertile egg. What really surprised me is that, while other infertile eggs were of nice size (excluding some obvious slugs), the only one that was fertile was barely larger than a Peanut M&M!! Not kidding.
Of course, it did plump up (grow) some, during incubation, but was still rather small when it was coming due for pipping/hatching. I thought, for sure, that the baby, inside this wee egg, could be no bigger than 2 grams (if it was lucky) come hatch date.
Well, hatch day came, yesterday, and out popped a Hypo(?) (100% het Charcoal 66% het Blood 50% het Lavender, Amel, Anery) barely weighing in at a whopping 3 grams (I am amazed that it even made it to 3 grams LoL).

Here are a few pics ... He/She is so tiny and so cute!

 

[beautifullywild77]

Awe, How precious! <3

 

[Maisimadu]

that is just amazing :O
cute snakey
me likes

 

[Nanci]

How cute! He makes Mini-Butters feel so fat, now...(3.6 grams after seven meals).

 

[AliCat37]

What a cute little baby! Congrats!

 

[Christen]

Oh he is so cute.

 

[Dracoluna]

He's adorable!

 

[Lycari]

Awww! I wanna size-comparison photo! <33 XD

S/he is absolutely adorable.

 

[Pasodama]

Thanks everyone.
For a tiny tyke, he/she sure is fearless.

Awww! I wanna size-comparison photo! <33 XD

Here are a couple of comparison photos. First is with a quarter and the second is with a hatchling that weighed in (today) at 8 grams with a partially digested meal in her tummy.

 

[dionythicus]

Aw! It is so cute. Doesn't look hypo, but it looks so darned precious.

 

[Pasodama]

Doesn't look hypo, but it looks so darned precious.

Thanks.
I know what you mean.
Overall coloring, and its borders, makes me think Classic het Hypo (along with the other hets).
However, he/she, currently, has grey checkers and hatched out a wee bit lighter than some of the first clutch Classics.
Am waiting, until its first shed, to see if those grey belly checkers are, actually, black & etc.

 

[Susan]

She looks hypo to me, the sweet little wee one! There may be some paradox darker spots, but I had a hypo hatch out last year with the same markings and those darker spots lightened up so I can't even find them anymore.

 

[Naagas]

So precious!

Question: can a baby that small actually eat a pinkie?

 

[Pasodama]

She looks hypo to me, the sweet little wee one!

Thanks, for the input, Susan.

So precious!

Question: can a baby that small actually eat a pinkie?

Thanks.

What I usually do, with Corn babies this small, is "crunch" the f/t pinkie head (one time squish with tongs) to make the head a little smaller ... plus, I gut the pinkie so that the girth is not near as big around as it would, normally, be. I know it sounds gross but I would rather do this than not having something small enough to feed to a tiny baby.
'Course, I am about to start a colony of Pygmy mice (picking up 2.3 Pygmies on Oct. 2nd ... although I may call to add one more female). Pygmy mouse babies are very tiny and would be great for the feeding of teeny Corn babies &/or babies of another snake species that, typically, have teeny babies.

 

[Nanci]

Such an adorable little baby!!

 

[Naagas]

Pasadoma, thanks for the info. Maybe I'll try that with one of my smaller non- eaters. Can't hurt.