Maggie laid six beautiful eggs for me on May 21! She did not progress through the season in the “textbook” fashion that Delilah did, so I was really nervous about the fertility of her eggs. But here they are, looking just perfect! Maggie is a hypo Mojave. She was bred to the same pinstripe het hypo male as Delilah. This is a super exciting clutch to me because there are eight possibilities that could come from this cross. Statistically, they are all equally likely. With six eggs, I can’t even hatch everything with this one clutch.
Here’s the list of possibilities:
Normal het Hypo
Pinstripe het Hypo
Mojave het Hypo
Hypo
Hypo Mojave
Hypo Pinstripe
Mojave Pinstripe (Jigsaw)
Hypo Mojave Pinstripe (Hypo Jigsaw)
Wow! I can’t wait to see what I end up with!
A couple months ago, I posted about our first ball python eggs. The time has come and the eggs have hatched! Monday afternoon, my daughter came running down to tell me that one of the eggs had pipped:
On Tuesday, a couple more had pipped. They were very shy, hiding in their eggs when I tried to take pictures. I managed to catch one with it’s head out!
By Wednesday evening, the first two were out. The last little straggler waited until Friday morning to make it’s appearance. They had their first photo shoot on Saturday:
This has been such an exciting week! I can’t wait to do it all again! Maggie should be laying her eggs sometime this week – hoping for a good clutch!
Last month, my daughter and I visited my mother in Naples, Florida for a week. I thought I’d share some of the wildlife pictures that I took. Most of the shorebird pictures are from the beach in Naples. Sometimes dolphins feed along this beach – always fun to watch! Occasionally they get really close & you would think they are going to rush up onto the beach! I tried to get some pictures of one of the dolphins & almost had it jumping out of the water, but no. This fin shot was the only clear one I got. We also took my daughter on an airboat ride to see some alligators. What a fun trip! Last year, the lake was much smaller and there were tons of baby alligators everywhere. This year, the lake was flooded and the babies weren’t as accessible, but there were lots of very large alligators to be seen! The males were just starting to go out into the open lake to set up their territories – no bellowing yet though. I hope you enjoy the pictures!
This is our first year breeding ball pythons. I have three girls breeding this season: a pied bred to our pinstripe het hypo male, a hypo Mojave bred to the same male, and an albino female bred to an albino pos het pied male. The albino male is pretty small and I have yet to [...]
I have resisted the temptation to get into Rhacodactylus geckos due to space issues – until now. I’ve coveted the huge Rhacodactylus leachianus for a long time. At the Herp World Expo in Pasadena, I held an adult at Philippe De Vosjoli’s table and was hooked! I came home with a book so I could [...]
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When we first moved here, I was obsessed with gardening. Every time my husband would go out of town for any length of time, I’d add a new garden. Back then, I had plenty of time to devote to the garden. But with the addition of family, teaching, and reptiles, I found myself with much [...]
S373 is a bill that, if passed, would ban interstate transport of 9 species of large constrictors. Ostensibly, the purpose of this bill is to protect the Everglades in southern Florida, a wonderful, unique ecosystem. I was lucky enough to visit the Everglades for the first time last spring (pics here). It is home to [...]
Happy New Year! 2010 is off to a great start with the arrival of a long-anticipated litter of Kenyan sand boas! This female’s first litter arrived on 29 October 2008. In 2009, I paired her up earlier, witnessed a lock earlier, and saw her begin to grow earlier than in 2008. So, I expected the [...]
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