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56 days.

You will have better luck with the babies' first feeding if you wait two weeks after hatching to feed. At least a week after shedding. You want to see them out, pacing around their bins, hungry, looking for food. I'm going two weeks after shedding now.

I've never had moss grow anything. I use "orchid moss" from the indoor plant section at Lowes or Home Depot. I wring it out as much as possible- it is barely damp.
 
I'll stop by and grab some of that then Nanci. Thank you :).

A week after shed huh? I feel so bad leaving something that just emerged from an egg that long without food, but I'll give it my best shot!
 
I know exactly how you feel! But remember- they just came out of the egg, and they have a belly full of egg yolk that they need to absorb before they are truly hungry.
 
Okay, I made it the 2 weeks or 2 weeks and a day depending on if you count from pipped or emerged. Dobby was a little champ. At first Dobby didn't want anything to do with it but after poking a hole in the pinkies head Dobby took right to it. Ginny on the other hand didn't want anything to do with it even with a hole in the pinkies head. So we decided to see if Ginny was like dad and left Ginny in the feeding bin and covered it up with a towel. Checked back about 5-10 minutes later and the pinkie was gone. Looks like Ginny is going to be like Draco. Draco won't eat unless you cover up the feeding bin and give him some privacy.
 
Okay, so I had a couple of other questions.

What is the average weight of a hatch-ling?

What is the smallest you've seen?

Reason I ask is from what I've seen on here in other threads it seems like 5 grams is pretty common and Dobby was nowhere near 5 grams.

They've each eaten twice now. Dobby went right for the pinkie the second time with no hesitation. Ginny ignored it, but again after covering the feeding bin with a blanket and checking back 5 minutes or so later she had it gobbled up. I wish I would have thought to weigh them before feeding, but I did get weights after.

The other 5 eggs, I'm pretty sure 2 will not survive to hatching. They had weak spots in the egg wall and they are sweating fluid through the weak spots. The other 3 are doing great so far though.
 
I would say the average hatch weight is 6 to 8 grams, although 5 grams isn't uncommon. I know a few people on here have had 3 gram hatchlings.
 
Wow.

Either my scale is messed up or mine were really small. I put a plastic dish on the scale and zeroed it out. I placed Ginny in it when it fully emerged from its egg and Ginny weighed 3 grams. I did the same with Dobby who weighed 1.7 grams. After their last feeding I weighed them the same way and Ginny was up to 5 grams while Dobby was up to 3 grams.
 
The second clutch is getting close to hatching. 4 of the eggs have survived to this point and are now 80 days in so I expect they should pip any time now. The 2 that survived from the first clutch are doing well. I can't get a current pic of the one my daughter took, but last time I saw it, it was looking well cared for and was a rather pretty little anery. I'll get a pic of Dobby as soon as I can and post it up to. Hopefully here soon I'll have pics of 4 more :).
 
Please excuse the dried weatherstripping adhesive on my fingertips. That stuff is extremely difficult to get off...

This is our little Dobby now at 84 days old. I still don't know the sex, I'll have to try to figure it out here sometime soon. Still, I love it's colors. It's a very pretty little snake :D.

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Oh, and these are the 4 eggs 80 days in. The one out of line with the other three has mold on the end of it, you can see the black. However, it's had that mold since about the end of it's first week yet the egg has grown.

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They are at about 100 days now and have continued to get bigger... but haven't pipped yet. Of course I did do the low and slow method this time but I'm really wondering if they will hatch now. I would think they would have stopped growing if there was no chance of them living though?
 
Egg grows?! I didn't know that.. I just got fascinated by your thread and it sorta left me on a cliff hanger.. Im keeping fingers crossed... Im sure someone else can answer the question with them being alive growing or not..
 
Update.

Over the last couple of weeks, the 2 eggs I was expecting not to make it, didn't. The other 2 continued to grow. We've been checking on them and today, FINALLY, one pipped.

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So, they were laid on 8-20. Today being 12-18, that would make 119 days. Wow. Is that some sort of record? LOL!
 
Okay :).

He's full out today. Cute little sucker. I'm surprised how nice his saddles look.

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I checked the other egg and it's still nice and white, but it dimpled easily when I touched it so I think that one should be cutting his way through soon to :D.
 
I keep looking at hatchling pics on the Ians Viv. site and the more I look the more I think Bella (Mom) is a Charcoal. This hatchling looks more like the Charcoal hatchling than the Anery A they have there and Dobbie looks more like the Phantom than the Ghost. The Anery A has more brown to it and Mom and the baby have more grey.

This is a pic they have for Charcoal (Anery B).

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And this is one for the Phantom.

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Versus this for the Anery A.

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And this for the Ghost.

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