Snakesitter
11-30-15, 03:03 PM
On November 11, Living Gems Reptiles had its second litter of 2015.
The sire, Ramses, is a now-proven hypo four-year-old breeder male with an impeccable pedigree: his great-grandsnakes were the founder animals of the line, and he traces down directly by Michael Lockwood's own hands.
The dam, Pearl, is an impressive orange four-year-old, outcrossed het hypo girl.
Here is the enclosure as I found it that morning, not long after she dropped. At this point, not a single baby was out and about. Note she has exited her lay box, then stuck her head back in to nose through the little ones:
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5815/23016627549_16b9dace5a_z.jpg
You can faintly see her head in the lay box here, along with a pile of babies to the left:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/732/22756217024_8e8664eec0_z.jpg
Here is the enclosure that evening, when *everyone* was out and about:
Overview Left Side
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5699/23276176742_ca85541a7b_z.jpg
Overview Right Side
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/570/23358434676_bbcd2862e1_z.jpg
Here was a mega cute row of baby rainbows, all in a row the night they were born:
Left Side
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5755/23276172752_bd09825024_z.jpg
Right Side
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/719/23016622309_7f1dfa53a2_z.jpg
And, as cleaning continued:
Checking the Hide Door
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/598/23358430746_7299ffda79_z.jpg
Exhausted Mom
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5686/23358429906_e304b0c9be_z.jpg
Mom and babies are doing well. The babies, in fact, are finishing their first sheds, and were offered their first meal on the weekend, with a 100% take rate.
Thank you, as always, for reading.
The sire, Ramses, is a now-proven hypo four-year-old breeder male with an impeccable pedigree: his great-grandsnakes were the founder animals of the line, and he traces down directly by Michael Lockwood's own hands.
The dam, Pearl, is an impressive orange four-year-old, outcrossed het hypo girl.
Here is the enclosure as I found it that morning, not long after she dropped. At this point, not a single baby was out and about. Note she has exited her lay box, then stuck her head back in to nose through the little ones:
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5815/23016627549_16b9dace5a_z.jpg
You can faintly see her head in the lay box here, along with a pile of babies to the left:
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/732/22756217024_8e8664eec0_z.jpg
Here is the enclosure that evening, when *everyone* was out and about:
Overview Left Side
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5699/23276176742_ca85541a7b_z.jpg
Overview Right Side
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/570/23358434676_bbcd2862e1_z.jpg
Here was a mega cute row of baby rainbows, all in a row the night they were born:
Left Side
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5755/23276172752_bd09825024_z.jpg
Right Side
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/719/23016622309_7f1dfa53a2_z.jpg
And, as cleaning continued:
Checking the Hide Door
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/598/23358430746_7299ffda79_z.jpg
Exhausted Mom
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5686/23358429906_e304b0c9be_z.jpg
Mom and babies are doing well. The babies, in fact, are finishing their first sheds, and were offered their first meal on the weekend, with a 100% take rate.
Thank you, as always, for reading.