Ok, so we're pretty stoked for this clutch. Blizzards are my fave corn morph with blood red not being too far behind. This year, I put Silica (blizzard) to Daytona (blood red). The first clutch produced 12 eggs; 11 slugs, 1 good. Unfortunately, the good one died. So I tried for a second clutch considering Silica was looking pretty good.
The second clutch yielded eight beautiful eggs all of which have survived. A week ago due to a mix up we cut open one egg and found a pale, but fully formed baby. It was still alive and so we left him be hoping he'd make it through incubation. Well today, that li'l bugger was out! And two of his buddies were chilling in their eggs next to him.
When Vanan first opened the lay box, all he saw were the li'l noses poking out, but I saw this guy all covered in vermiculite and was like, there's a baby!!! Gasps of awe and amazement as the baby actually kept his pale colouration!!!
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What the heck?
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An anery?! But what type??
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I'm fairly certain this is a true blue Anery type B, aka Charcoal. We have been looking for a true charcoal and were hoping that when these babies came out we could cross them and get a charcoal out, but what do you know?! We get one right away!!
What makes me think it's charcoal? Well Silica is blizzard (amel with anery B). And so far of the three babies we can see, two are this anery colour. I have posted a pic of the baby and someone did confirm that it looks like a charcoal baby. Charcoal babies have a blueish colour to them and a pink or blue blush on the face which is apparent on the cheeks. Take a look at the last pic.
One of the li'l babies is this absolutely drop dead gorgeous normal.
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Wow! I don't know if that's blood red influencing that sucker, but he she it has a lot of red on it.
This is the third li'l dude, also an anery (charcoal?).
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But finally, after all these pics and nuttiness compare these belly pics!
Nothing special with the charcoal belly.
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But the normal? Whoa, neat stripey thing happening.
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Blood reds have no checkering on the belly and I'm wondering if that's influencing the normals belly checkers.
Anyhow, this clutch has proved to be WAY more interesting then we first expected. I can't wait for the rest to come out of their eggs.
We'll be waiting for sheds and in a year or so we will know for sure if the aneries are charcoal as most charcoals do not produce yellow on the throat.
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