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- Thread starter Azixs
- Start date
diamondlil
Mice! They taste so nice!
:dancer::dancer::dancer: Congratulations!
Rich in KY
Fortunate Fool
Congrats!!
Yay for pippies!
Yay for pippies!
This is why I should have made my own incubator. 
It turns our that as soon as the hatchlings emerge they head for the hottest part of the incubator, aka the heat source.
Now for some reason the designers had overlooked that the heatscource happens to be right next to a dirty great spining fan, which although covered up by a grill is easily acessable for a small, agile hatchling. I'm having to relocate them as soon as possible, to their own seperate cricket boxes, which are then heated by a lengh of heatwire controlled by a thermostat. I'm having to watch the eggs 24/7 or risk something horrible happening!
Anyway thanks guys and girls!. So far the morphs all look pretty simular. Black and white, some with checkered undersides, bar one pear of lavanders.
They're all reasonable agressive, especially the lavanders whos attacks seem to spur on the rest of them. "Did that pink snake just try to bite him?" "Screw this, like hell am I being outdone by them". *CHOMP*
And I'm not looking foward to the feeding, although the way they strike at me I don't think it'll be much of a problem!
Az
It turns our that as soon as the hatchlings emerge they head for the hottest part of the incubator, aka the heat source.
Now for some reason the designers had overlooked that the heatscource happens to be right next to a dirty great spining fan, which although covered up by a grill is easily acessable for a small, agile hatchling. I'm having to relocate them as soon as possible, to their own seperate cricket boxes, which are then heated by a lengh of heatwire controlled by a thermostat. I'm having to watch the eggs 24/7 or risk something horrible happening!
Anyway thanks guys and girls!. So far the morphs all look pretty simular. Black and white, some with checkered undersides, bar one pear of lavanders.
They're all reasonable agressive, especially the lavanders whos attacks seem to spur on the rest of them. "Did that pink snake just try to bite him?" "Screw this, like hell am I being outdone by them". *CHOMP*
And I'm not looking foward to the feeding, although the way they strike at me I don't think it'll be much of a problem!
Az
salvadorian
creatures are people too!
Oh I can't wait to see more photos! Good luck keeping an eye on them!
Chrissie&Coral&Lilly
Addict. :D
How many eggs were in the clutch.... just out of curiousity and how many have hatched yet?
There was originally 16 eggs in the clutch. 13 of them hatched successfully, one was infertile, one looked dead and was starting to mould very badly, so I removed it, and one of them didn't hatch, and when cut open yesterday the poor hatchling looked as though it had died during the mid stages of development.
Haha! Sorry I took so long.
These pics are all of the first three to hatch:
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/1-1.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/1-2.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/1-3.jpg
On to number two:
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/2-1.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/2-2.jpg
And number three:
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/3-1.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/3-2.jpg
I'm still trying to get to grips with the genetics, so any help with identifying the morphs would be much appreciated!
The mother was a ghost of some kind, and the father a "black" motley. Pics below:
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/Female.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/malepattern1.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/malepattern1.jpg
These pics are all of the first three to hatch:
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/1-1.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/1-2.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/1-3.jpg
On to number two:
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/2-1.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/2-2.jpg
And number three:
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/3-1.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/3-2.jpg
I'm still trying to get to grips with the genetics, so any help with identifying the morphs would be much appreciated!
The mother was a ghost of some kind, and the father a "black" motley. Pics below:
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/Female.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/malepattern1.jpg
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/Adzscott/malepattern1.jpg
Apologies, but my camera battery is dead. That was the best I could do.
And yes, Anery looks about right, thanks!
As for the recessive genes, a couple of the hatchlings were easily identifyable as lavanders, I'm just scanning through the clutch now to see if I can pick up on any other traits not present in the parents.
Hehe, thanks. I'm working on the rest of them now. Quick update, around half (6/13) of the hatchlings are feeding sucessfully The rest of them are either striking at the mouse defensively or just completly avoiding it. I've tried washing the pinky before feeding, using tweezers, leaving the pinky and hatchling alone together in a cricket box. I'm running out of ideas! Does anyone have any tips?
bitsy
Owned by Corns since 1991
Try:
- Braining the pinky
- Leaving the snake and pinky together in the cricket tub overnight
- Dunking the pinky's head in the oil/water (not brine) from a tin of tuna before offering it
- Making the pinky REALLY hot before offering it
No guarantees, but the tuna trick usually works for one or two of mine a year.
- Braining the pinky
- Leaving the snake and pinky together in the cricket tub overnight
- Dunking the pinky's head in the oil/water (not brine) from a tin of tuna before offering it
- Making the pinky REALLY hot before offering it
No guarantees, but the tuna trick usually works for one or two of mine a year.
Asbit
So Many Morphs...
There are so many things you can do. Personally I would use something other than the cricket box with your none feeders the smell from the crickets, which is likely still in the box, may be turning them off. I would use a tuperware, with air holes.
Here are some suggestions. For each thaw pink by filling a bowl with the hottest tap water you can get and placing the pinkie (in a ziploc) in the water. No need to try these in any particular order.
1. thaw then brain, cut open the back of the head of the pinkie and squish some brain matter out.
2. thaw then dip in tuna juice.
3. thaw then rub on raw chicken.
4. thaw then rub on KFC skin grease.
5. thaw, brain and place feeding container in viv and leave all night(not on warm side).
6. thaw, brain and cover with a tea towel, no peaking for at least an hour.
7. thaw, then tease feed, gently bump pinkie into the side of snakes neck to aggravate it and get it to strike at it, in the hopes that it will get the mouse in it's mouth and then decide to eat it.
8. thaw and wash with dish soap to remove any smell.
9. thaw and scent with a different rodent, get some bedding from a pet store and rub it around in it.
10. thaw and scent with lizard, either alive lizard, frozen lizard or a product called lizard maker.
11. try live one day old pinkie.
12. thaw and put pinkie and snake in a paper bag that is somewhat sealed (so snake can not get out) and place in the viv, for a couple of hours or over night.
13. take the snake for a drive (in a sealed container covered so the drive does not stress them out), aparently some have had luck with this motion stimiulating the appetite
That's all I can think of right now, sorry.
Here are some suggestions. For each thaw pink by filling a bowl with the hottest tap water you can get and placing the pinkie (in a ziploc) in the water. No need to try these in any particular order.
1. thaw then brain, cut open the back of the head of the pinkie and squish some brain matter out.
2. thaw then dip in tuna juice.
3. thaw then rub on raw chicken.
4. thaw then rub on KFC skin grease.
5. thaw, brain and place feeding container in viv and leave all night(not on warm side).
6. thaw, brain and cover with a tea towel, no peaking for at least an hour.
7. thaw, then tease feed, gently bump pinkie into the side of snakes neck to aggravate it and get it to strike at it, in the hopes that it will get the mouse in it's mouth and then decide to eat it.
8. thaw and wash with dish soap to remove any smell.
9. thaw and scent with a different rodent, get some bedding from a pet store and rub it around in it.
10. thaw and scent with lizard, either alive lizard, frozen lizard or a product called lizard maker.
11. try live one day old pinkie.
12. thaw and put pinkie and snake in a paper bag that is somewhat sealed (so snake can not get out) and place in the viv, for a couple of hours or over night.
13. take the snake for a drive (in a sealed container covered so the drive does not stress them out), aparently some have had luck with this motion stimiulating the appetite
That's all I can think of right now, sorry.