First hatchlings Thread (DUW)

As some of you may know, we'd been getting EXTREMELY impatient here as we waited, and waited, and waited some more for first clutch to hatch. It was due back on 7/8 (which was day 65 so we figured it'd be around then sometime) but the little stinkers held on until the first normal pipped on 7/29 - which was day 86. Talk about stress... we had begun to fear the eggs had been cooked when we had about a 20hr power outage when a freak storm dropped 5-6 power poles near us.

Well, we now have new reasons to be impatient, it's for the rest of the little buggers to leave their eggs! lol... we're on day 89 and we have only 6 pips with 2 completely out. If you want to see the pippy pics, you can view them here: 'Bout Time, I Say!

We got a bonus gene in the clutch too... we'd been hoping the female had been carrying the anery gene, and low and behold she is! We'd had one confirmed snow and one confirmed anery in the clutch as well as 2 others that might be, but they haven't poked their noses out just yet for us to tell. (Both eggs are slit, just no pippage yet).

ANYwho... enough of my blabbering... :grin01: and onto the pics!

I'll start with a picture of the lovely parents:
Riverstone (Amel Stripe het Anery) x Hematite (Blood het Anery & Amel)


River with her eggs:


She'd dropped 16 of them, and during incubation only one went bad.

Hatchling pics will start in the next post!

Hatchling #1 - Normal Suspected Female (will pop again after shedding) weighed in at 5g.





She's got some nice color to her, with a thin white stripe down her belly, and some red wash to the back half of her belly. She wouldn't sit still long enough for me to get a clear pic of it though. Will try to get pics of her belly after she sheds.

Hatchling #2 - Normal Male weighed in at 6g.

This boy had some intense colors that I didn't even suspect when he first pipped.






I'm really looking forward to seeing what he looks like after he sheds. Very excited to know if his colors will stay as intense. Even his belly is bright, with a far thicker break through the middle of his belly checks.

Here's a couple pics:




Hopefully one or both of the amels will feel brave enough to come completely out of their eggs sometime today. If not, I probably won't get pics of them until Sunday Night cause we have company coming over tomorrow to help Tim move in the new fridge. And I'm still hoping to convince Tim to take me over to Stephen's so I can check out the cool critters he has hatching out over there.

Anyway, thanks for looking! Hope you enjoyed the pics! =)

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nice babies you've got there! congrats!

Melissa

Pretty babies!

Those are amazing babies, and their parents are beautiful.

Those are a couple of nice babies.
Look forward to seeing the rest when they are, completely, out of their eggs.

wow! I love the belly shot--it is so pink!

Very Nice babies I love those red bellies!!!

WOW!

Now thats how you spell relief! :grin01:

*emphatically nods in agreement* Right you are Stephen! lol...

Thanks again everyone! And now, the moment you all have been waiting for... not just one amel, but BOTH amels left the egg as did the first anery to pip. We almost had another of the normals out, but it decided it wasn't ready after it got about a third of the way out and it ducked back in! lol...

As I mentioned in the other thread, all but two of the eggs have pipped now, and we've just about hit the generated odds perfectly with 5 normals, 3 snows, 3 anerys, and 2 amels. I'm rooting for another normal and one last amel to round off the numbers nicely! lol

Anyway, will post the pics in the next post. Y'all got lucky in that I needed a short break from moving things around and made some time to crop them for posting instead of waiting until Sunday!

Pics up next..

Hatchling #3 - Amel Suspected Female (will pop again after shedding) weighed in at 6g. (This is the really saturated one!)

Oh, you found me...


You're not going to make me move are you?


Did you just move closer to me?


That's it! You'd better run, because here I come!


lol... she was very laid back and curious about the camera. nary a rattle nor a cobra pose, even though she didn't like me getting too close. =)

Hatchling #4 - Anery Male weighing in at 6g as well.

This little guy DID NOT want to sit still for the camera. He was all over the place, checking out my hand, the lens, the deli lid, my hand, the flash... you get the point.. lol





I'll try to get some better pics of him once he settles down... and after he sheds.

One more for tonight and than the rest will have to wait until they leave the egg.

Hatchling #5 - Amel Suspected Female (will pop again after shedding) weighed in at 5g.

This girls isn't nearly as bright as the other amel, but she is still fairly saturated. The odd thing though is the coloration on her head. She didn't look like that when she first pipped - but than again she never really pipped all that far. Could be some perilite that rubbed off onto her scales, or it could be that the eggshell stuck to her face before she got free. Won't know until after she sheds for sure either way though. Could also be incubation stress I suppose, seeing as how she didn't pip until day 87-89.




And her pink toned belly, with checks:

I did try washing the 'white' off with a touch of water, and it didn't seem to remove it, so it doesn't appear to be perilite flakes or dust. Will have to be sure to check her out post shed and take more pics of her than. (She's even soaking in her water dish now and it looks even brighter now that the dust has been washed off.)

Here's one of her pipping pictures, now that I know what to look for, you can see just a bit of the white that's around her eye in this shot here:


makes me wonder if it will stay or not after she sheds.

Wonderful baby snakes, that red continues to scream, and the anery is very cute too. I'm interested to see what the other one ends up looking like--does it seem to be a coloration thing or something stuck on the skin?

Awww! What sweet babies! Congratulations!

I think I absolutely adore those amels!

NIce looking babies.. I can see the white on that amels face in the prehatching pic. Maybe it is mor prominant now that she is dry?? Would be cool if its the pied gene hehehe