Results for first clutch of 2009 are in...

Today was day 54 of the first clutch of the year, so I cut open all the eggs to avoid any of them drowning in the egg. All appear to be alive and well so far, but not ready to come out of their eggs just yet (a day or two probably). This female surprised us with a 12-egg clutch for her first clutch ever. She was approximately 2000g before she was bred. She was bred to our really nice male Spider. The results ended up being 7 Spiders and 5 Normals. This is an excellent ratio for this first clutch of the year. In theory we should of had around 6, but have had as little as 2 or 3 in similar sized clutches in the past.


The next clutch scheduled to hatch (in 6 days from now I think) is a Yellow Belly to Normal clutch. This is another large clutch and we're hoping to hatch a lot of female Yellow Bellies. We have the possibility of having, just maybe, some unproven het Super Stripes in our collection and we hope to prove them out eventually. That would require us breeding the animals we think could be het Super Stripes to Yellow Bellies. More long term projects I guess... a few Ivories would of made it easier, but that's not possible for now.


And just for the fun of it... Here's a picture of my male Super Dwarf x Dwarf Retic het Albino having lunch...