Eggs!

[anankae]

Came home from the pet store with mice for feeding to be greeted with this:

Mom is a sunglow motley, dad is a cube stripe.

 

[anankae]

Bah, image didn't post, let me work on this.

 

[anankae]

There we go.

 

[anankae]

Oh forgot to mention they're both het for caramel, babies should be:

25%: motley caramel het amel, stripe
75%: motley het amel, stripe 66% poss het caramel

 

[Hellstrom]

OOOhhh, that's an exciting clutch!! congrats on the eggs! Mama is beautiful!!! I can't wait to see those babies....

 

[rich333]

Very Nice pairing!!! Congrats on the clutch!!!!

 

[rosewood]

hmmm those eggs look like they might be slugs? Its hard to tell from that pic but they seem pretty wet and the color is slightly off. I could be wrong though, maybe they just haven't expanded yet. Be sure to post some full clutch pics!

 

[rich333]

going back and taking a closer look...they do remind one of brown chicken eggs???? May be the light.

 

[rosewood]

Yeah and they have that slimy wet appearance that good eggs lack......

 

[rich333]

well,
I for one will hope they are viable eggs...Awesome hatchlings if they are!

 

[anankae]

I'll take another picture after I transfer them. I too hope they're viable. It's the first time she's been mated and I only let them pair once. I'll be disappointed, I'm trying for a caramel.

 

[rich333]

Are the eggs "White"??? Or are they an off color?? Once you have them in the incubator and settled in...take a small pen light...with the lights out...and shine it at the sides of the eggs...if it has a red/pink glow it may be viable. if it glows white or clear...probably not good. this isn't a guarantee...but i've heard that if the egg glows red/pink...it's a good egg (fertilized).

 

[anankae]

Wow, 18 eggs.

And you're right, they don't look very good. Blame me, I timed the pairing really poorly. (yeah, yeah, I know, yell at me )

I wasn't even planning on mating them but I was handling Phoenix and Ember was just going crazy trying to get out of his cage. So on impulse, I put her in with him and I kid you not, it took them all of 5 seconds to lock. They were doing their thing and it looked like it was working out okay.

But about an hour after I put her back in her cage, she passed feces. My thought was damn, she just pooed out all that sperm.

Then she got gravid, and I thought well maybe all was good.

Here are the eggs and a picture I took of her a few minutes ago, she's resting quietly.

 

[K. Rene]

Unfortunately I think those are all slugs The female is beautiful. Take care of her and try again next year.

 

[Shiari]

Those definitely look entirely like slugs.

Here's Tor with her 100% fertile clutch. See how white and 'marshmallow'-y the eggs are?

 

[anankae]

Thanks, here's the male. Even tho he's het for caramel, you can see the caramel coloration comes out strongly in him. They both came from South Mountain Reptiles.

 

[anankae]

Phoenix dropped one more slug today, that brings the count to 19. All she's doing is laying around and sleeping.

But she wolfed down a pinkie like there was no tomorrow and took a long drink of water, so she's fine. Still in some discomfort I think, but improving.

 

[rosewood]

Thats a shame about the eggs that happened to my last year because Prince was a first timer and the year before because I didnt time it right either