Look what I caught..

[mykee]

I just happened to be walking by my snake room, and decided to look in on my only female left to give me eggs,(as I do every 12 minutes) and I caught her mid-lay. I decided to snap some pics from underneath the rubbermaid. Picture this: I'm lying on the ground, with a rubbermaid pulled halfway out of the rack, female is under her newspaper, so I have a perfect view, without stressing her out. Sorry for the poor picture quality, but these pics were taken through a rubbermaid. This is what I caught:
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1004lay8-med.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1004lay9-med.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1004lay10-med.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1004lay11-med.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1004lay12-med.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1004lay13-med.jpg

This pic is of the proud Mom (who would love a chunk of me at this point) from above, after having laid 7 good eggs, and 1 slug. Notice the urates at the back on her enclosure? Ever try to stick your hand in with a gravid female?:
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1004proudmom1-med.jpg

Thess pics are comparison size shots, first w/ a lightbulb, and second on the scale, sans slug. Eggs weigh in an average of 80g.
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1004lightbulbeggs1-med.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/1004scaleslugno-med.jpg

[Tim_Cranwill]

Wow, Mykee! Cograts and good luck. :)

Was she bred to a pastel?

[mykee]

Tim, thanks. No, she was bred with my albino male.

[Invictus]

Right on Mykee! Can't wait to see the hatchlings.

[emroul]

Wow, what a beautiful momma. :) CONGRATS!!! Oh, just out of curiousity, how much did she weigh pre-lay?

Jennifer

[Stockwell]

Hey, Nice job Mykee!!! and that is some awesome Rubbermaid theatre

[BoidKeeper]

Great Job mykee!
Congrats man,
Trevor

[Tarentola]

Good luck!

Nice girl!

[mykee]

Jennifer, she was 1870g and 22 mos. when she laid (today).

[Jeff_Favelle]

Beauties!!!!! GREAT job!!! :jawdrop:

[marisa]

Wow that's really awesome Mykee! I hope you have really good luck with all your clutches! The mother is really nice looking.

Marisa

[Matt_K]

Congrats Mykee and good luck man!!!

[malaysianbloods]

congrats on the eggs and nice pastel can't wait to see the baby's

[Don Patterson]

wow congrats man!!!!!!!!!!!! not sure if i am more impressed with your breeding skills or raising up female skills. that is awesome. wow. lets hope lots of pastels.

[Derrick]

looks great. Not being up on ball morphs will these come out looking normal being DH pastel/albino? when you breed the babies togethier what will be the result?

[emroul]

There should be about 50% pastels from that clutch and 50% normals (statistically speaking, of course); no albinos, but all the babies (both pastels and normals) will be 100% het for albino.

Jennifer

[Tim_Cranwill]

Derrick, pastel is a co-dom gene, albino is a recessive.

So, all the babies will all be het albino and 50% should be pastel. :)

[elevation24]

Neat pictures!! Kind of like seeing the backside of a waterfall :p

Anyway, congrats!!

[Corey Woods]

Mike,

Congrats!!.....Hopefully you get 2.2 Pastels.

Corey

[Bristen]

Mykee, congradulations!! Very interesting project you got there going.. I don't think I've seen one single pastel het for albino for sale in Canada yet... they certainly exist somewhere on the planet, but there's probably not a whole lot of them out there... keep us posted!!

Thanks for sharing!
Bristen.

[smeagel]

Wow Mykee, that is awsome looking pastel. i bet the babies will be awsome too. How much are the babies going for? although if i were you i wouldn't sell any of them, which is probably what you are going to do. you gonna have any normal pastel clutches available?

[justinO]

neat! she looks all wrinkley now
:)

congrats, and hopefully you'll get some good pics of them all the way along....

here's to good genes!

[David Kwok]

Impressive!! hope the gods are in your favour.

Dave

[mykee]

Smeagel, I have some normal pastel clutches in the incubator as well. Not sure as to pricing yet. With regards to the pastel het albinos, I'm yet to see anyone other than Greg Graziani producing them, (or at least displaying them). Depending on the hatch rates/sex ratios, I may let one go. Thanks for all the kind words guys, this project is really something I've been interested in getting up for a few years now.

[Jamie]

That is a very cool post.....I could only imagine how akward it can be to get pics from that angle without disturbing the female....what we do to share our experiences....great job and good luck

Jamie