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Artz and Snakez
A few pictures of the little ones we kept from our breeding last year. The parents are Kash and Nox, a pair of charcoal het amel beauties I was lucky enough to get from Katie (ArpeggioAngel).
This is Espeon. Espeon is kind of our miracle snakelet, because she absolutely refused to eat for the longest time. We ran through all of the tricks Nanci had posted, and nothing. She was getting down to skin and bones. Our pinkie supplier offered to take her and try her on a fresh-born live one. That was going to be our last resort.
He couldn't pick her up for a few days, so we decided to try her one last time, as it was hatchling feeding night. We gave her just the head, and she ate it. Funny little thing, would only eat beheaded mice for the longest time after that (she would eat both parts if offered, but wouldn't touch a whole pink, even if we brained it) She's been eating whole pinks for her last few feeds.
I'm so glad we didn't give up on her, because she's got a fantastic disposition (oddly enough, she was the hateling right after hatching, but has calmed down into the nicest one to handle)
Then we have Onyx. We knew Onyx was a keeper from day one, because of her pattern. She has a little O with a dot in it in the middle of her back. It helps that she's consistently been the easiest and most chill of the babies to handle:
And finally, Glaceon. Glaceon was one of the biggest at hatching (a whole 7 grams!), and one of the nicest. For a while. She turned into a right little nipper for a while (not mean, she never triagles and rarely rattles. Hand her a pink and she's as likely to go for a bit of human flesh as for the mouse) She's calmed down over the past few weeks and was positively friendly when I got her out for pictures today. (I took one of her in her viv in case she didn't want to cooperate with pictures)
This is Espeon. Espeon is kind of our miracle snakelet, because she absolutely refused to eat for the longest time. We ran through all of the tricks Nanci had posted, and nothing. She was getting down to skin and bones. Our pinkie supplier offered to take her and try her on a fresh-born live one. That was going to be our last resort.
He couldn't pick her up for a few days, so we decided to try her one last time, as it was hatchling feeding night. We gave her just the head, and she ate it. Funny little thing, would only eat beheaded mice for the longest time after that (she would eat both parts if offered, but wouldn't touch a whole pink, even if we brained it) She's been eating whole pinks for her last few feeds.
I'm so glad we didn't give up on her, because she's got a fantastic disposition (oddly enough, she was the hateling right after hatching, but has calmed down into the nicest one to handle)
Then we have Onyx. We knew Onyx was a keeper from day one, because of her pattern. She has a little O with a dot in it in the middle of her back. It helps that she's consistently been the easiest and most chill of the babies to handle:
And finally, Glaceon. Glaceon was one of the biggest at hatching (a whole 7 grams!), and one of the nicest. For a while. She turned into a right little nipper for a while (not mean, she never triagles and rarely rattles. Hand her a pink and she's as likely to go for a bit of human flesh as for the mouse) She's calmed down over the past few weeks and was positively friendly when I got her out for pictures today. (I took one of her in her viv in case she didn't want to cooperate with pictures)
