Thursday, March 26, 2009

Eggs started hatching.


Here is our first Ball Python hatching of 2009 as I typed my first post. We are hoping to see some real dark Black Pastels from this clutch. These 3 eggs came from a clutch that also had 6 slugs(infertile eggs). The female is very dark colored snake and the sire is a beautiful VPI Black satin Pastel. Lets see how it pans out.


Lots of breeding action.





Well it's been a while and we have had lots of breeding activity. On 03/07/09 we had our second clutch of Bearded Eggs eggs and on 03/12/09 we had our second clutch of Ball Python eggs laid.




We have also seen some more soaking and ovulating of some other females. This is a CH reduced pattern female we are trying to prove as genetic and an orange ghost female who we caught begining her ovulation. This OG ovulated 3 weeks exactly after begining her soaking period which lasted almost the entire 3 week period.











Today 03/26/09 we had our third clutch of ball python eggs laid from a cross of Pastel Orange Ghost male and a Spider female. This girl wasn't supposed to lay until next week but instead she laid 25 days after pre lay shed. This will be a fun clutch to watch hatch, bumble bees are one of my favorite combinations and het for ghost is always a plus. We have been waiting on our first ball python clutch to hatch since 03/24/09 and I just saw the first head pip out at 3:30 pm pacific time. This will be the first of many ball python clutches we should be hatching this year. We have a clutch from out granite girl due to lay next week. It is a very fun time of year around here.