You can't win them all...

As they say, you can't win them all... This picture is one of the worst clutch we ever had laid here... 9 slugs in total, but one was a double (big one in center). That would of almost certainly resulted in 10 babies had the eggs been fertile. This was a female that produced incredible Spiders a few years ago, and we were hoping to produce some more of those really nicely reduced Spiders. We actually held back a female Spider which should be just about breedable next season. This is one of 3 clutches that had slugs in it for us this year... one was a 10-egg clutch, but we managed to get 3 good eggs out of that one.. the other clutch only had 1 slug as far as I can remember...

This is the male Orange Granite that bred with the previously posted female... they produced a nice clutch of 7 good eggs this year. It's the first time they produced for us so we're hoping to hit something interesting. It's odd how nice they looked when babies and how they've browned out. If this proves genetic, we feel that having the Hypo gene mixed into it would prove to really "light them up". Some Granites have proven to be co-dom - meaning two Granites bred together produces some kind of "Super Granite". Hopefully this is what will happen with this project... Estimated hatch date is August 24th for this clutch...

Some females lay so many eggs that they can't fit them all underneath them! This next picture is a good example of that. That's it for today...