TrpnBils
22 is not enough snakes
Tell me this isn't the coolest day....
I went to a reptile show near Pittsburgh on Sunday and picked up a pair of Macklot's (Freckled) Pythons from a guy. They're neat little snakes (just '08s, so they've got some growing to do), and they're a little crazy now, but they should calm down in a few months. At this point I have to use a modified coat hanger as a hook to handle them. Once they're out though, they're fine. I'm trying out bioactive substrate setups with them and the setups look cool...I'm just being really careful about bacteria, etc, and I'm going to get fecals done on a regular basis just to make sure it's all working as it should.
So about 5 minutes after I got these snakes, my phone rang. My fiancee wanted to know if I'd be interested in fostering some GTP eggs for a friend. He had two together and wasn't planning on breeding (oops), and the female dropped 20 eggs that morning. Last year I hatched out 38 at the zoo, and I had all the supplies to build a new incubator at home, so I set that all up, and Steph picked the eggs up on her way home from work.
I was a little nervous about the car ride and how it would affect the eggs, but it seems to have gone OK. We started out with 20 and three looked bad so I pitched them right off the bat. Another seven went on Sunday night, but for first time parents I'm not surprised. The remaining 10 look great though! I'm not holding any expectations here because I don't think eggs were meant to be moved like that...but it'd be great if we got even one hatchling out of this.
Anyway, here are some pictures of the Macklots (the lighter brownish one is the male):
I went to a reptile show near Pittsburgh on Sunday and picked up a pair of Macklot's (Freckled) Pythons from a guy. They're neat little snakes (just '08s, so they've got some growing to do), and they're a little crazy now, but they should calm down in a few months. At this point I have to use a modified coat hanger as a hook to handle them. Once they're out though, they're fine. I'm trying out bioactive substrate setups with them and the setups look cool...I'm just being really careful about bacteria, etc, and I'm going to get fecals done on a regular basis just to make sure it's all working as it should.
So about 5 minutes after I got these snakes, my phone rang. My fiancee wanted to know if I'd be interested in fostering some GTP eggs for a friend. He had two together and wasn't planning on breeding (oops), and the female dropped 20 eggs that morning. Last year I hatched out 38 at the zoo, and I had all the supplies to build a new incubator at home, so I set that all up, and Steph picked the eggs up on her way home from work.
I was a little nervous about the car ride and how it would affect the eggs, but it seems to have gone OK. We started out with 20 and three looked bad so I pitched them right off the bat. Another seven went on Sunday night, but for first time parents I'm not surprised. The remaining 10 look great though! I'm not holding any expectations here because I don't think eggs were meant to be moved like that...but it'd be great if we got even one hatchling out of this.
Anyway, here are some pictures of the Macklots (the lighter brownish one is the male):
