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Pip pip hooray!!

LauRuffian

LauRuffian

Perpetual Newbie
YAY! Day 65 and we have our first pippie! Hard to see in the pic, but it's a little classic like his/her mama. :D One down, 11 to go, more pics to come! Totally like Christmas. :santa:
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Eeeeeee! :crazy01:
 
I swear it's the same smell I've noticed for the past 5-7 days or so. This is a deceitful clutch! Like to do that whole fake-you-out thing.

Here's his wittle nose:
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Thank you! We now have our second pippie and first amel--coming from the UGLIEST egg of the clutch since day 1. Shows all those spots and ugly marks don't have to mean a thing.

Cute pink nose!
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Heh, thanks Hypnoctopus!

We're up to 4 pippies now, 2 classics and 2 amels maintaining a perfect 50/50 ratio so far:
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Indeed we should and did! Pippie #1 is now hatchling #1. We're calling him Flick because s/he flicked their tongue at me calmly as I picked them up to clean off the Hatchrite.

Flick is 100% het amel het motley, and was surprisingly mellow as I picked them up and cleaned them off. I remember several kiddos last year wanting to add me to Nanci's Bite Club. ;)
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And, we're up to 8-9 pippies (can't tell for sure, believe it or not)
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this morning!
 
Looks like we have 3 amels and 9 classics het amel, all het motley. The teacher in me nods to the math of this. While the *theoretical* probability is 50% classic/amel, the *experimental* probability turned out to be 75%/25%. Each egg is an independent event...a lesson to teach the kids no books or worksheets can emphasize.

Good news is, this year, all 12 fertile eggs pipped. Last year we had 2 duds and one DIE.

Now the baby pile pic! FTR, one amel was buried in the substrate at the time I took this pic, and there are still 3 pippies to go--2 more normals and 1 more amel. I removed all the hatchlings, weighed them, and put them in their individual containers after this.


This year's clutch was also much less varied in weight--at least as far as I can tell right now. They're all about 7g; one is about 8g and another about 6g, but that's not much variation. Last year I had a couple of 10g behemoths and an iiiiittttty bitty runt that might have been 3g.

Link of a video of the babies exploring the crib:
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Cute babies! And nice and healthy. Can't wait for next year! More pics will surely be coming. :D
 
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