Keeled's Scales 2014 Hatchling Thread

[Mitchell Mulks]

A touch of saffron!

Alright! I have my first official saffron ever to be produced here at Keeled's Scales. While the odds say 25% of the clutch should be saffron, this is the first little one I've seen from 12 eggs. Most are amel sunkissed, a morph that is very nice too.

Saffron leaving it's egg.

A pile of four amel sunkissed. Their colors are so bright!

In a previous post I mentioned that I wanted to hold back all my striped amels het caramel lava from a 19-egg clutch. Well, the odds on that particular morph was 25%, and of course I only had one in the entire clutch. Go figure. However, I did a duplicate pairing using another female and the same sire, and out of five eggs, so far three are striped amels! Well, good to see things evening out. In two to three years I hope to have some gorgeous striped lava butters. The only thing I don't like about these stripes is that most of them are heavily cubed.

Striped amels het caramel lava and their sib.

 

[Mitchell Mulks]

Pinestripe motley topaz!!!

The last egg of my topaz clutch that produced the motleys has finally hatched...and it's nearly a perfect pinstripe motley topaz! :crazy02::crazy02::crazy02:

A closer picture

 

[steve roylance]

The last egg of my topaz clutch that produced the motleys has finally hatched...and it's nearly a perfect pinstripe motley topaz! :crazy02::crazy02::crazy02:

Very cool Mitch!! I'd say that's a keeper

 

[MysticExotics]

Nice! Congrats!!

 

[Daniel Wakefield]

The last egg of my topaz clutch that produced the motleys has finally hatched...and it's nearly a perfect pinstripe motley topaz! :crazy02::crazy02::crazy02:

!!!! That thing is amazing! :cheers:

 

[LRDJ]

Mitch,
That one looks fabulous. Look forward to seeing that one for sale...
Take care!
Orlando

 

[Walter Smith]

All though I'm not a big fan of Pinstripe Motleys, I have to say that one is quite stunning !!! CONGRATS Mitch.

Walter
:crazy02:BOUT' CORNS !!

 

[Mitchell Mulks]

Gotta love you some gold!

A few years back I purchased a young-adult ultramel blood female from Don S.. She proved to be het caramel when bred to a gorgeous golddust blood I have. From that first clutch I got fires, golddust bloods, sulfurs, ultramel bloods, and also the ultra-type bloods minus the amel gene. Those are the ones I like; an ultra caramel blood is just so much nicer than a golddust blood with the amel gene in it. Well, telling the morphs apart can be tricky...but I think I have it down.

Here's a bunch of this year's hatchlings crawling around their egg box.

I've broken the morphs down for all of you so you can see what I see. I think the homo-ultra morphs have more dark pigment and lack any red hue to their eyes.

Here's another shot of the other side of the egg box, with a nice fire too.

A gorgeous ultramel blood.

Last year I bred my male strawberry anery het amel blood to a female ultramel anery tessera het strawberry. The results were awesome, but of thirteen eggs I only got three tessera. Hopefully it's a good sign that the first snake out from the same pairing this year is an ultramel anery tessera.

Peeking out.

A gorgeous male ultramel anery tessera!

 

[Mitchell Mulks]

Freshly shed

I'll have pics soon of some of my fresh shed hatchlings!

 

[Walter Smith]

the homo-ultra morphs have more dark pigment and lack any red hue to their eyes.

This is absolutely correct Mitch.

Ultramels are lighter in color than Ultras, however you can't go by that all the time. The best way to know is the latter part of your quote.......the eyes.

Ultramels will have a ruby colored pupil, where the Ultra will have a much darker colored pupil, almost black.

Here is a shot of a Ultra & Ultramel Anery compairison.
Ultramel Top / Ultra Bottom

VERY NICE Clutch BTW !!!

Walter
:crazy02:BOUT' CORNS !!

 

[Daniel Wakefield]

That Ultramel Anery Tessera is really cool, Mitch! Can't wait to see the colour come in on that one

 

[Mitchell Mulks]

That Ultramel Anery Tessera is really cool, Mitch! Can't wait to see the colour come in on that one

Me too...I just hope whomever winds up with it is nice enough to make a progression thread!

This is absolutely correct Mitch.

Ultramels are lighter in color than Ultras, however you can't go by that all the time. The best way to know is the latter part of your quote.......the eyes.

Ultramels will have a ruby colored pupil, where the Ultra will have a much darker colored pupil, almost black.

Here is a shot of a Ultra & Ultramel Anery compairison.
Ultramel Top / Ultra Bottom

VERY NICE Clutch BTW !!!

Walter
BOUT' CORNS !!

Thanks for the photos and comments Walt, glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks you can actually see a difference.

 

[Mitchell Mulks]

Here's the newbies!

After ten-plus arduous days of waiting for some sheds, the hatchlings are sporting their new digs! Without further adieu...

Blizzard het blood motley

Lemon (Hypo Honey) - Male

Lemon (Hypo Honey) - Female

Charcoal Motley

A VERY awesomely colored Sunkissed 66% ph amel cinder motley

Shatter 66% ph amel motley

Peppermint 66% motley sunkissed

Honey het amel 66% hypo 50% motley

Sunkissed Blood

Cinder

 

[Mitchell Mulks]

More egg pics!

I paired my saffron het motley male to a female golddust het motley. While I do want to produce ultra honeys, I don't mind making a few amel-based genetic shortcuts to a very similar morph. Any golddust from this pairing will be het sunkissed, one step closer to sundusts (Copyright Steve Roylance ).

A fat little butter and a golddust motley.

The snout of an ice blood hesitant to enter it's new world!

Yeah, the tessera gene makes everything SO much better. Look how clean these anerys are from a tessera-sired clutch.

...and their über-bright and clean ultramel anery sib.

...even better yet, a bright and stunning snow tessera!

Last year I paired a cinder to an amel. Out of 13 eggs, one of them popped out a funky bright thing that I wasn't sure what it was. As it's aging it sure does look like an ultra...but if it is then the results vs. what the odds stated should have come from the pairing are way off (if the cinder male was het ultra). I decided to do the same pairing...and here we are again! Out of twelve eggs, this time there's only two of them. Statistically there should be six, but hey, I'm gonna call them ultras and hold them back to pair to last year's male.

Cinder-spawned ultras

A pile of sunkissed het caramel lavender motley

These last two pics are from a clutch that should produce another few sunkissed tessera. I paired my tessera het sunkissed to a sunkissed motley.

An aberrant sunkissed. I'm loving it's pattern.

Tessera het sunkissed motley

 

[MysticExotics]

Gorgeous babies!! Are you planning on letting go of the Sunkissed 66% ph amel cinder motley or the aberrant patterned SK? (Hint, hint) LOL

 

[diamondlil]

I squealed at the cuteness all the way through! Big congrats on these beauties!

 

[steve roylance]

Huge congrats on some outstanding babies!!!

 

[Walter Smith]

ALL very nice but I especially like the Blizzard, Charcoal Motley and the Lemons !!

AND.....as usual, love the images Mitch and think your new background looks nice as well............sandstone ???

Walter
:crazy02:BOUT' CORNS !!

 

[kc261]

Beautiful snakes!

The charcoal motley is lovely. Very clean sides and I don't know if this is an accurate color cuz I would have expected less brown, but on my monitor it is showing up very chocolately and positively looks yummy!

I also like that aberrant SK. The interesting patterns always catch my eye. That one has some nice borders too.

 

[Daniel Wakefield]

Those Lemons are REALLY cool!