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The Egg Watch Continues . . .

DollysMom said:
It's like Christmas in July, with snow no less! What a wonderful thing to wake up to.
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Yes! Wonderful! I agree! Just wondering how long it will take for all who are going to hatch to actually hatch!! 3 are totally out and seem fine. #4 has its head out since last night (early this morning) and #5 just breached its shell. I found myself taking the ones that are almost out and transferring them to their own containers, including ones that have had their heads out for more than 24 hours as I don't want them to actually get loose in the container where the eggs incubated, only because of the mold & mildew (that one egg on the end is responsible for most of it and it looks like a big, giant booger! Can't imagine anything coming outta THAT thing alive!!). But, there's 11 other eggs that haven't yet been breached!!

Is that normal? 7/11 was the first one. It's 7/13 and only 3 out of 5 are all the way out, out of a total of 17 eggs!!!

Just wondering. :eek1:
 
Patience!!

Anticipation can be nerve wracking!!! That's #'s 5 & 6 respectively!
 

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Also, last year I only had 3 hatchings successfully come out of 12 eggs, but each was so different looking from each other. With this clutch, they all seem to be snow corns. Not complaining, as they are all beautiful! Morph selection is just a strange process! I also never saw hatchings so small!! I hope day-old pinkies are in abundant supply!!
 

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I'm glad they are still hatching. So cute! The good news is that snows are in demand so finding homes should be easier.

Have you got a weight on any? If you haven't already, I'd start sourcing my pinkies now so you have them on hand when you need them. One day pinkies are easy to come by as long as you don't mind paying shipping.
 
DollysMom said:
I'm glad they are still hatching. So cute! The good news is that snows are in demand so finding homes should be easier.

Have you got a weight on any? If you haven't already, I'd start sourcing my pinkies now so you have them on hand when you need them. One day pinkies are easy to come by as long as you don't mind paying shipping.
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No choice on the shipping, as this is a "good problem" I was actually looking forward to!!!

Didn't weigh any yet, because I didn't want to handle them so newly hatched, but you're right. I think I'll weigh #5 who just came out and looks like the first morph who's slightly different than the rest!

I just uploaded a short clip to YouTube. (Appreciate the advice Nanci, but I just couldn't decipher your instructions earlier, though I HAVE tried, only to notice that while I'm sitting there THINKING hard, I distinctly noticed the smell of wood burning!! So I stopped immediately!!)

Anywho, here's the link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyYs56_Rtk

Maybe someone can tell me what morph this runt is?
 
BTW

As per Dollysmom's question/suggestion, I just weighed the feisty little morph who looks different than the rest that's posted above in post #47 and it weighed in at a whopping 6 grams!! (I thought it would be lighter!).

Poor thing was frightened to death!!! Just comes out of its shell and gets plucked from safely by a gigantic hand, so it's no wonder!!!!

Oh well, I'm off shopping for day-olds!! :crazy02:
 
I don't know what morph little different is, but s/he sure is pretty. Is there some striping of some kind? The skittishness is the sign of a very healthy normal hatchling IMO. Keep the good news coming Axis. Looking good!
 
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I don't know what morph little different is, but s/he sure is pretty. Is there some striping of some kind? The skittishness is the sign of a very healthy normal hatchling IMO. Keep the good news coming Axis. Looking good!
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I DO believe there is some striping action occurring, though it's difficult to actually see it too clearly at this point. The differences to last year's small group of 3 survivors from a clutch of 12 eggs is staggering though, possibly because Lilly mates with two different males.

The pics aren't the best quality, but there's a couple I was able to find after digging through my old Blackberry files (NOTHING compared to my much newer iPhone 6s+). However, they still have to be re-sized considerably, so I will post them soon!
 
The difference between Lilly's 2015 clutch: 3 different hatchlings consisting of 3 different morphs!

#1 - "Torch" - the first to pop out on 7/29/15 (pardon the quality of pix taken from an older Blackberry):
 

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#2 - "Noodles" - also hatched on 7/29/15. Unfortunately both Noodles & Torch never ate but survived for almost 3 whole months!! It was sad to watch them wither away (notice the quarter in the tank next to Noodles to give an idea of size).
 

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Ozzy Lives!!

#3 - "Ozzy" - the only surviving hatchling from Lilly's clutch last year who hatched on 7/30/15! He/she will turn exactly one year old soon and currently weighs in at about 140 grams! Ate its first small adult mouse on 7/9/16!! He looked much different than how he turned out!
 

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Ozzy is beautiful! I'm so sorry about his siblings. I think having more experience and all this help here you will do much better with this year's hatchlings!
 
Okay, okay! I know, it's getting a little monotonous to say the least, but here goes #'s 7 through 9!
 

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DollysMom said:
Ozzy is beautiful! I'm so sorry about his siblings. I think having more experience and all this help here you will do much better with this year's hatchlings!
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Thanx Dollysmom!! Hope you're right!! Actually, you can't be wrong! They say expertise the best teacher! If that's true, I should be OK!!!
 
No Axis, pipping never gets old. This last trio is adorable. Nothing cuter than three little pink noses peeking out!
 
Update On Day #5!!

Hey, how ya been?

Just a quick one - while numbers 1 through 9 are finally all out of their shells, numbers 10 through 13 were pipping thru their shells, suggesting a somewhat relatively ssslllloowww finish to the race to hatch!! Here's a quick shot of the whole crew whilst individual deli cups are cleaned out for them. Notice the "odd" one who looks different than the rest? (Of course, I'm already thinking of keeping that one!!)
 

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