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My First Clutch =^_^=

swishyfish2003

swishyfish2003

Queen Nerd
My friends brother joined the Marines about two years ago and had to find a new home for his pair of corns. I'd wanted some snakes for some time, and corns are the perfect pet for me (don't get to big! lol)

He told me that they'd found out 'Copernicus' (a snake he'd acquired from his teacher) was actually a female (now dubbed Perni) when she laid eggs after being put together with the male. They get along great, so even though he'd never manage to get the eggs to hatch he kept them together.

When I inherited the pair I wanted to try an get their eggs to hatch. Purni didn't lay last year (I didn't try anything special, I just figured if she was gonna let her hubby have any then she'd let him have any ;P) But this year (the 2nd of June) she laid a nice big clutch of 17 eggs. :D

3 were infertile from the get go, but the others all did great. Considering I'd NEVER tried anything like this, I'd been trolling the internets the whole time making sure I did everything right.
I've decided corns MUST be easy to hatch if I managed to do it xD

So anyways yes, babies for the past 3 day now, and still 5 eggs with little noses poking out of them. Everyone looks happy and healthy so far, but now that they are safely here I'm worried about the keeping them safe part lol!
Maybe I'm an over worried grandma xP

I know they aren't gonna eat anything for a while yet (not till after the first shed correcto?) but they just seem so small, how do they manage the feat of swallowing a pinky at this size?

Anyways, I'd figured I'd post some pics of the babies. I've been showing them off everywhere else (even on the world of warcraft forums lol)
I'm not sure what kind of morphs they are. I've been trying to figure out what types the parents are, and the fact that the babies are such a huge mix of colors doesn't help me figure out a all! lol

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So far there are two of this color.

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The rest look like this :p

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The happy couple. ;)

It is a little confusing that none of the babies so far look like the mom (she looks like a normal colored corn to me)

Sorry for the essay, I'm just so excited! XD
 
:D They're about the size of cheesecake, my now-2-month-old corn snake. When we got her she wasn't even a month old.
Somehow, they swallow the pinkies right up. Cheesecake never took more than 3 minutes to eat, from the time we dropped the pinky in to when she had swallowed. It left quit a lump in her, but it disappeared quickly a day later.
I am not sure how they do it. I guess their 4 jaw segments must be extremely flexible to accomplish such a miracle.
Anyway, gorgeous, gorgeous babies. :)
About the keeping them safe part, too--I don't know if you've ever held a baby corn snake before but mine is extremely hyper. She never stops moving! And they're so small, if you're holding them and lose them for a second--they're gone. :( So when we hold Cheesecake we make sure to keep an eye on her at all times.
She pretty much does her own thing to keep herself healthy though, when she's in her tank she burrows under her big heavy water dish and stays curled up there all day.
Good luck with the babies! :) and congratulations!
 
Cute little babies there! My guess on the babies are Amel, Snow & Anery.
Babies absorb the yoke from the egg, & that will sustain them for a little while. Most, I think, will eat after their first shed, which is about a week after they hatch. I had one stubborn little baby that went 7 weeks before he ate his first mouse.
 
lol thanks Shelliebear. It is comforting to know that the feat is possible xP
And I've indeed noticed how fast they are. I have a couple that will mostly just sit when I hold them, but then I have others that I'm afraid are gonna fly right out of my hands lol.

I think that the dad might be snow so that seems like a safe guess heather :)
Of course, then I saw pictures of opals too, and they looked just like snows to me...
gah the confusion! I don't think I'll ever figure out all the morphs lol.

Anyways, I had another couple of babies out of their eggs this morning, and one looks different from the others:

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I'm wondering if this is the one that's gonna take after it's mom :p
It's hard for me to tell at this age really, but it seems to be white/brown/red at this point.
Do the colors change much as they get older?
 
The first baby is an anery, then the pile of babies you have snows ( the white ones) and Amels (the orange ones) The parents look like a snow (the white one) and the dark one could be anery but it looks kind of like a kistache as well. The last baby you posted a pic of is a normal. Nice batch of eggs good mix in there. Id say your parents are a snow and an anery het. amel.

And yes the colors to change on some morphs as they get older. Here is a link that will help you with morph identification. http://iansvivarium.com/cornsnakemorphs.php
 
I think its safe to say you have a snow and an anery het amel. That would explain the anery, snow, amel and normal babies. Congratulations! Eggs hatching is always exciting!
 
No, the other parent canNOT be an anery, otherwise there'd be no amels.

The parents are a snow, and a dark normal. The *only* way to get such variety.
 
I'm personally leaning towards dark normal myself. The pic was taken with my cellphone so not all that great in quality, but what you can't see in the pic is she has quite a bit of darker orangey-red hues too :p
 
This is off topic from the question you asked, but I feel it's important information for you to know anyway.

As much as the happy couple look cute together in that picture, I think it would really be best if they lived separately. It sounds like the female has already been under a lot of unnecessary stress, laying eggs countless amount of times without them even being hatched.
There are also countless other reasons why co-habbing isn't worth it, I suggest you do a search on it and inform yourself on all the possible issues, then decide weather or not it's worth it to you to keep them together. There really aren't any positive sides to co-habbing, just possible dangers that you run the risk of exposing your snakes to.

Just letting you know. It sounds like you like to soak up information and learn more about how to care for your snakes. I think it's awesome you took them in in the first place, it sounds like they are under better care then they were with your friend. Good luck!
 
shiari, you're right. I wasnt thinking too clearly, it doesnt make sense for the male to be anery het amel. Not only would you not get amels, but there wouldnt have been a normal either. My bad
 
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