Pip-pip-hurrah!

[diamondlil]

That's great news! But I'll be happiest when it poops.

Oh, I didn't get a piccie, but there was a tiny poop with the skin!

 

[diamondlil]

I'm pretty amazed at how fast the hole closed on that amel.
I'm also fascinated by the egg pics, are they really scratches on the inside of the egg? So if you keep the light on them you might be able to see them trying to get out?
Also, congrats!!

I'm not sure if they were scratches, but that's what they looked like, discrete marks rather than random 'windows' of thinner shell development. I had to go to sleep (I'm on nightshifts), but had to force myself to put the torch down and step away from the eggs!

 

[Widget]

whoohoo...so glad that one with the hernia is healed up and doing great. Congrats on lots of good feeders. Good luck with the rest of them.

 

[diamondlil]

Look what I found this morning! The first pippie from Annie's clutch. Another egg has dark slash lines appearing too! I need to sleep because I'm working again tonight, but I'll have to peep at them again.

 

[diamondlil]

Oh this is just too exciting! This evening I could see more of Annie's first pipper, and today there is a 6g hatchling and a half-way pippie!

 

[kathylove]

Congratulations!

Looks like you are having LOTS of fun with your new "kids"!

 

[diamondlil]

I am! Incubating at the lower temperature has meant a longer wait, but much better results than last year. So far all the hatchlings have been @ 7gs, but Pearl's eggs are at least 1/3 bigger, so I can't wait to see how big her babies will be

 

[Susielea]

Congratulations Janine! They're coming thick and fast now :cheers:

Hoping for lots of eager feeders for you!

 

[diamondlil]

Thanks Sue! I've had a chance to set up all the new tubs in readiness, in a new DIY hatchling rack. I need to work out how to stop the little darlings tipping their water bowls over though

 

[Susielea]

Ha ha, I've had two seasons of tipped water bowls, now I use glass tealight candle holders from IKEA, you can get a pack of 12 for I think £1.49 and not a single tipped bowl this year
But then some of the darned little blighters still manage to tuck the corner of their paper towel in the bowl, which wicks up the water and soaks the tub anyway, babies are so much fun

I did try sticking the lighter plastic ones (bottle caps...lol) down last year with some blue tack and that was reasonably successful, maybe you could try that?

 

[diamondlil]

Here's the hatchling housing. It was £5 in a charity shop! I just had to overcome my fear of chisels to cut holes to thread the heat cable through

 

[diamondlil]

Ha ha, I've had two seasons of tipped water bowls, now I use glass tealight candle holders from IKEA, you can get a pack of 12 for I think £1.49 and not a single tipped bowl this year
But then some of the darned little blighters still manage to tuck the corner of their paper towel in the bowl, which wicks up the water and soaks the tub anyway, babies are so much fun

I did try sticking the lighter plastic ones (bottle caps...lol) down last year with some blue tack and that was reasonably successful, maybe you could try that?

Thanks for the tips! I made the water bowls by trimming the bottoms off of plastic cups, so I'll go on the hunt for tealight holders tomorrow!

 

[Susielea]

That's a great looking rack! Even better at that price too!

Another thing I've seen people do with plastic cups, is cut them tall enough, so they actually touch the lid of the tub and then cut a couple of semi circles from the top edge, which allows the snake to get at the water, but stops the cup from tipping as it's held upright by the lid.

 

[diamondlil]

No time for a trip to Ikea, so I made deeper cups with a 'u' shape for access, no tipping! Thanks Sue.
Now I'm getting wildly impatient over waiting for Annie's pippies, because I've spotted an amel and what looks like a hypo nose!

 

[diamondlil]

:dancer::dancer::dancer:I love this snake! it's popping as female, but I'll check and recheck, I think I've got a keeper!
5 grams of (in my eyes) perfect little corn!
Annie is a ghost motley, she's het amel because there's an amel pipping, but I don't know how this little one has happened, unless one of her suitors was het hypo

 

[diamondlil]

So far from Annie's clutch, 2 normals, an amel and the hypo, with another egg slitting and a normal nose poking out. My youngest oy will set up the hatchlings that appear while I'm away.
I've set Sundance's 10 with their thawed pinks this morning, I'm hoping they'll fill their tummies quickly because I'm off on my hols this evening!

 

[Talinea]

Hi!
That little Hypo-thingy is soo cute
Did they already eat?
Are there still pippies to come?

 

[diamondlil]

I'm just back from a week away on holiday, with some mixed news. Three of Annie's remaining 7 eggs had just started slitting as I left last Sunday, but none hatched at all. All were dead in the egg, including a couple of conjoined twins (amel and normal) a couple more hypos and what would have been ghost het motley/blood. 4/6 of her hatchlings have shed, 1 has eaten its first meal.
None of Pearl's had slit, so I candled them. I couldn't see any movement so I slit one, expelled the contents and I've got a premie. I don't know if it will survive, I've set it in a damp container. I didn't expect Pearl's eggs to be viable after such a long incubation, so fingers crossed for the premie and the rest of Pearl's clutch.
One of Sundance's amel hatchlings looks kinked, all have eaten today. I assist fed the kinked one, but if it doesn't straighten out I'll euthanise it.

 

[DeprivedSnakeLover]

Good Luck.... :'(

 

[Tula_Montage]

Oh that first hatchling is horrific Poor baba.