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There's something in the water...

HerpsOfNM

HerpsOfNM

My name's Blurryface...
first the Mexican hog (Heterodon kennerlyi) wants some eggs with her bacon, now it's a corn's turn. I blame the poor excuse of isolated thunderstorms rolling through. This is "Rainier" a Reverse Okeetee from SMR and her first clutch. Dad is "Flicker", a tessera het butter motley also from SMR. Paired 4/14/2013, prelay shed 5/8/2013, eggs on 5/14/2013.

Rainier-5-14-2013.jpg


That's first egg out in photo. I ran some errands, needing a small hole punch as apparently the deli cups I have are sans holes, and came home to her having laid 3 more.

Her rackmate, is a WC okeetee that just did her pre-lay shed.
 
Day 59... Temps ranging from 82 to 83°F over this duration

3 eggs from above male tessera x butter stripe at day 58 at same temps. Oh how I forgot how anxious one gets checking the 'bator so close to hatching.

Must find more walls to climb... Or some paint to watch dry or grass in the desert of NM to watch grow.
 
Forgot to add, the SMR RO female appears to be entering a shed cycle with a double clutch visible. She's doubling without having been reintroduced to my tessera, which slightly bugs me as this was her first pairing ever (she's cb 08 or 09, bought in 2010). I wanted to avoid the dc, but she's ate like a horse since laying the first clutch ... :shrugs:
 
Can't wait to see those hatchlings!! I've got a female who laid the same day. The eggs are soft, and starting to dent. So far I have been restraining myself to twice a day checks.
 
welllllllllllll......

3 eggs from tessera (het butter motley, SMR critter) x butter stripe (ph hypo, CO Corns critter [from SMR joint project?]) are pipping. 1 has pipped thus far, couldn't see much and little guy did the disappearing act back into egg. What I did see appears to be either a normal, caramel, normal tessera, or caramel tessera. These guys were laid 5/15/2012, today is day 62 for them. No denting or sweating observed last night (~11:50pm)

The OP clutch (tessera x RO, both SMR critters) is at day 63 and nada yet. Eggs are nice and pearly white, visibly still fertile. Again, no denting or sweating on this clutch either.

And some unrelated news...

published for the 4th (??) time...recent issue of Herpetological Review, citation:

MSB 94444, Newsom. 2013. Geographic distribution: Tropidoclonion lineatum. Herpetol. Rev. 44: 276

Fun week thus far, and set to possibly get better.
 
4 of 6 babies out...

from tessera x RO (4 eggs, 3 fertile):
  • 1x RO tessera
  • 1x normal (half okeetee) tessera
  • 1x waiting on baby to come out
  • all babies are poss. het caramel motley, all normal pigmented are het albino.

from tessera x butter stripe (3 eggs, 3 fertile):

  • 1x non-tessera caramel
  • 1x butter (possibly striped?) tessera
  • 1x egg pipped but no baby out yet...
  • all normal pigmented babies are triple het caramel, albino, stripe, all babies are poss. het motley (though I know motley is dominant over stripe...trying to figure how to word this more clearly).

I just got home from an overnight scouting for locations trip to extreme west central NM and just checked the 'bator. I'll get pics a little later once it comes back up to temp.
 
Congrats on the babies! The RO is a good looking girl. The picture in the OP is great! She's so bright!
 
Chip...

I'm still trying to wrap my head around that. His deli cup on Don's table was labeled as such, plus het butter motley. We know motley is dominant to stripe and he definitely doesn't have the striping you see in striped tesseras. I'm thinking maybe the striped describes his tessera pattern since motley was in his parentage?

I'll finish dinner and get pics of the 4 out
 
pics...

from the tessera x reverse okeetee:

50% okeetee tessera
okeetee-tessera-7-17-2013.jpg


50% RO tessera...digging the odd side striping half way down body before it breaks to the tessellation.
ro-tessera-7-17-2013.jpg


ro-tessera-7-17-2013-2.jpg


hatchling #3 appears to be a runt, but is another albino tessera. 3 for 3 on tessera from this pairing. The egg was barely pipped and half the size of its sibling eggs. We shall see with it as it's still in the bator...

from the tessera x butter stripe

caramel
caramel-7-17-2013.jpg


and upon a closer look...what appears to be a butter stripe? and not a butter tessera :shrug: This throws a wrench at me as dad is labeled striped tessera het butter motley. So was/is he het motley/stripe?
butter-7-17-2013.jpg


hatchling #3 was poking its head and neck out when I pulled clutchmates. It appears to be a possible caramel tessera.

Either way, not bad for 6 eggs for my first time breeding corns since 2002. Now the ~10 day wait on my 15 or 16 tessera (same male) x wild-caught "okeetee" (quotations as she's from ~30 miles as the crow flies from okeetee hunt club road).
 
last baby from the tessera x butter stripe

a little caramel tessera
caramel-tessera-7-17-2013.jpg


Thanks everyone for the replies thus far.
 
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