SarahP
Crazy Snake Lady Trainee
For a first year's breeding, we got along fairly well. Both of our gravid females double clutched. None of Lilith's second clutch survived, but two of Salome's second did.
One hatched out big and healthy and ready to go. We think it startled the second one out of its shell too soon. She emerged with the yolk still attached and was impossibly tiny. She would not eat on her own, but having lost one baby to not eating earlier, my husband was determined not to lose another.
So we force fed her and I'm happy to report she's eaten on her own ever since.
But she's still not very big...
(She was not left unsupervised. She crawled under a tool box and we lifted it to get the picture, then moved her. Pretty good examples for scale, though.)
(...she's shed a couple of times already, fwiw. World's tiniest snake!)
One hatched out big and healthy and ready to go. We think it startled the second one out of its shell too soon. She emerged with the yolk still attached and was impossibly tiny. She would not eat on her own, but having lost one baby to not eating earlier, my husband was determined not to lose another.
So we force fed her and I'm happy to report she's eaten on her own ever since.
But she's still not very big...
(She was not left unsupervised. She crawled under a tool box and we lifted it to get the picture, then moved her. Pretty good examples for scale, though.)
(...she's shed a couple of times already, fwiw. World's tiniest snake!)
