Not another season beginning post.

[MysticExotics]

Wow! Those babies are stunning!

I hope you get more Tessera's!!

 

[steve roylance]

Steve, I have a feeling you may appreciate what's hiding in that pile once I get some post-hatching shed pics. I'm stoked for what that albino tessera is showing for a possible white inner border, assuming that doesn't back fill with red with age.

Mostly not noticeable in the above is that there are 3 more pipped eggs in the shot, 2 more albino noses and 1 normally pigmented snout. Egg #10 hasn't slit yet.

I like it!!!!

 

[HerpsOfNM]

Let the Post-Hatch Shed fun begin.

 

[Shiari]

I'm afraid that tessera does not have enough hets and pos. hets. Clearly you must add some more.

Beautiful photo of the wee critter.

 

[Daniel Wakefield]

Chris, those are BY FAR the best egg tooth shots I have EVER seen! Really cool, man! Oh, and I love the way that Amel Tessera looks

 

[Nanci]

I need to invest in a Bluetooth/wifi waterproof temperature probe (if such exists and is affordable) so I can more accurately monitor temps throughout incubation.

This is the waterproof (probe) version of what I am running on my racks. See "Remote Temperature Monitoring" for details. I bought one for my incubator, but I haven't gotten the nerve to drill through the cabinet yet, during incubation....Maybe after my two clutches hatch, I'll take the incubator in and x-ray it to see where I can go through it.

LOVE this monitoring system, though. You get a base station which connects to your router, and then you can put up to five remotes on it. Each remote senses temp and humidity on the unit, and then has a probe, too.

I _wouldn't_ put the whole unit in the incubator- I've had bad luck with incubators killing every monitoring device I've ever used, except those Big Apple Herps thermometers. They stand up to it, for some reason.

 

[HerpsOfNM]

Post-hatch shed pics of a few babies from Flicker (Tessera het hypo, albino, caramel, stripe) X Ash (Granite het hypo)

Of 11 eggs, the lone Tessera :shrugs:

 

[kc261]

Purty babies. Absolutely stunning photography. Love the shot of the tessera baby looking at the camera.

 

[steve roylance]

Great photos Chris! Sorry about the lone Tessera

 

[HerpsOfNM]

I'm afraid that tessera does not have enough hets and pos. hets. Clearly you must add some more.

Beautiful photo of the wee critter.

I'm sure I could get another trait or 2 into the mix? :noevil:

Actually, I'm really not too crazy about producing a load of hets. The pairing was intended to work anery and bloodred into my tessera project. I definitely wasn't expecting the hypo gene in either snake. The hypo gene actually places a small kink into plans, but as long as my butter stripe female doesn't throw out a hypo baby I should be good.

It could also be a good thing. Right now, my plan is to breed my caramel tessera (Thor - het albino stripe, poss het hypo now) to a pewter (Sterling - from Steve Roylance...she's either caramel or 66% het caramel...forget what else).

Chris, those are BY FAR the best egg tooth shots I have EVER seen! Really cool, man! Oh, and I love the way that Amel Tessera looks

Thanks Dave. Shiari nailed some sweet egg toof shots in her fairly active thread.

This is the waterproof (probe) version of what I am running on my racks. See "Remote Temperature Monitoring" for details. I bought one for my incubator, but I haven't gotten the nerve to drill through the cabinet yet, during incubation....Maybe after my two clutches hatch, I'll take the incubator in and x-ray it to see where I can go through it.

LOVE this monitoring system, though. You get a base station which connects to your router, and then you can put up to five remotes on it. Each remote senses temp and humidity on the unit, and then has a probe, too.

I _wouldn't_ put the whole unit in the incubator- I've had bad luck with incubators killing every monitoring device I've ever used, except those Big Apple Herps thermometers. They stand up to it, for some reason.

I haven't searched yet, but I take it this is the remote sensing unit you use for caging too. I recall you can view this away from home as well?

Purty babies. Absolutely stunning photography. Love the shot of the tessera baby looking at the camera.

Thank you. I don't know how many times I've tried to nail similar dead on shots like that and have failed. I can never seen to get the snout back to the eyes in full focus without getting the whole animal mostly focused too. I'm actually quite happy with this shot and the bokeh I got. And oddly I recll being at f/22, which should have caused more in-focus background.

Great photos Chris! Sorry about the lone Tessera

Let's see. Last year I got 15 eggs (WC Okeetee), 4 eggs (SMR RO), and 3 eggs (CO Corns - Butter Stripe), so 22 eggs. I had 1 infertile, so 21 eggs.

15 WC Okeetee X Flicker = 6 tessera and 9 normal
3 CO Corns Butter Stripe x Flicker = 1 caramel tessera, 1 butter stripe (that may or may not be a tess), and 1 caramel.
4 SMR RO x Flicker = 1 "RO" albino tessera, 2 normal tessera, and 1 infertile.

10/21 = 47.619% (we'll be scientific-like and take to 3 sig figs) tessera rate in my first year breeding the morph. I can't complain. :cheers: This jumps to 52.381% if my butter stripe sibling to Thor proves out tessera in 2016.

This year...
19 WC Okeetee x flicker = all duds (ouch, but she's an old gal that was already over 4 ft when I caught her in 2000).
12 granite X flicker eggs = 1 tessera, 1 hypo, 9 normals, and 1 infertile
10 SMR RO x flicker eggs = 5 "RO" tessera, 3 "RO", and 2 normals....and she double clutched, which didn't catch that and only saved possibly 2 of 5 eggs.
10 stripe (unknown hets, local freebie I was given last year) x flicker = 10 eggs that looked all fertile, but I'm down to a lone egg that should hatch in 2 weeks.
14 CO Corns Butter stripe x flicker = 5 pips as of 3 hours ago....this is my anticipated clutch and I'm liking what's poking out head wise. Haven't had a chance yet to spy on pattern, only heads so far.

 

[HerpsOfNM]

speaking of 5 pips.

I present the clutch of 14 from Chiquita (a butter stripe and the result of CO Corns/SMR butter stripe collaboration project) x Flicker (SMR tessera het butter/hypo stripe).

The egg of the far left was who had pipped last night. The pipped egg in center photo was this morning. Photo taken around 11am this morning.

I'm titling this one: "I'm seeing bubble!" This little one excites me. The eye stripe, as you can see is faint between the eyes. Given the subtle orange I'm seeing, don't think it's a caramel but I think the faintness is a hide of non-blotched patterning. Central egg above had it's head out enough earlier that I'm pretty confident it's a caramel. The question is, is it a tessera.... :sidestep:

EDIT: Update: 3 more eggs pipped, currently at 8 of 14 eggs pipping. 2 of 3 new pips had little albino heads poking out. No known multi-gene combos yet.

 

[HerpsOfNM]

Since my Comcast webspace is toast due to moving and no longer having Comcast....let's get breeder pics up for reference. All shots from last season.

Flicker - Tessera, het albino, caramel, hypo, & stripe (South Mountain Reptiles)

Ash - Granite, het hypo (produced by: unknown?). Don't mind her condition in this photo. I'd just received her and the gentleman that had her attempted to hand shed. The result was "raw" scales on her neck and left eye cap. Stuck shed can still be seen by her head discoloration and the fact that the afflicted area is covered in bacitracin, which is then covered by coco fiber. Poor girl! She's all healed up now though.

Rainier - Reverse Okeetee, no known hets (South Mountain Reptile).

Chiquita - Butter Stripe, no known hets I recall (Colorado Corns/Pikes Peak Reptiles)

And don't let the last name throw you off in my photos. Long story short, I went through a legal name change in Dec '13, taking on my mother's maiden name - something that should have happened back in the late '90s.

 

[HerpsOfNM]

If I'm seeing correctly:

• normal - het butter stripe, 50% ph hypo
• albino - het caramel stripe, 50% ph hypo
• normal stripe - het butter, 50% ph hypo
• caramel stripe - het albino, 50% ph hypo
• caramel tessera - het butter stripe, 50% ph hypo (it's been dubbed "Battle Axe". Head pattern macro to come after post-hatch shed)
• and should I have compared photos correctly over at Ian's Viv and SMR.........
• normal stripe tessera - het butter, 50% ph hypo
• caramel stripe tessera - het albino, 50% ph hypo

I've already pulled a caramel het albino stripe, 50% ph hypo earlier.

All eggs are pipped. From what I can see when heads were poking, there are 2 albinos, 1 stripe, 1 normal, and 1 butter. Leaves 1 unaccounted for. oke:

:crazy01:

 

[HerpsOfNM]

Individual pics time.

We'll start with Flicker X Chiquita, because well that's all I have photographed at the moment.

 

[HerpsOfNM]

2nd half of clutch (posted are limited to 12 img tags).

 

[steve roylance]

Great photos of awesome snakes Chris!!

 

[HerpsOfNM]

While I wait for some little turds to eat their boiled pinks...

Flicker X Rainier babies:

And this is "Runt" aka CN13-FRAT-003. Runt hatched from a fairly tiny egg (about the size of one of those 25 cent bouncy balls, possibly smaller) and was almost completely devoid of red. I still haven't sexed it, but it hatched 7-19-2013. I didn't think it would make it, as my notes on the cage card follow:
1. Egg pipped 07/17, but no head on 07-18. Cut egg further....fully formed, low pigment development. Placed in deli cup w/ paper towel (moistened) in incubator. Came out on 07-19 still attached to yolk. Removed from incubator on 7/21 after found detached from fully absorbed yolk. "Runt" w/ only red pigment on head.

Runt was assist fed a fuzzie tail on 8/9 and took pinkie heads from 8/18 to 9/12. On 8/23 Runt weighed 2.8g. Back on 6/28/14 I did some weighing of my holdbacks, with Runt coming in at 19.6g. In comparison, Thor hatched 7/18/13, was weighed on 6/28/14 at 45.8g. "Runt" is strictly a pet as I don't know if this anomaly was due to first year breeding of Rainier, incubation screw up (unlikely given everyone else hatching fine last season), or fill in the blank ________. Ignore the label typo of just "okeetee".