Taiwan beauties are hatching - Pics!!! - Page 2

Katt · 09-08-04, 08:34 AM

They're soooo cute!!!

Do I qualify for a Leader discount?? I'll be right over to pick up mine!

vanderkm · 09-08-04, 08:45 AM

Those are gorgeous and HUGE babies!! Congrats on them - great looking snakes,

mary v.

Vanan · 09-08-04, 08:49 AM

Congrats guys! Definitely a long awaited hatching! Can't wait to sex them!!

Minnow · 09-08-04, 10:26 AM

Having babies is just soooo 'egg'citing!! Taiwan's are such beautiful snakes. Congrats!!

Carol

gonesnakee · 09-08-04, 10:31 AM

Cool, good pics, nice babies. Mark

Tim and Julie B · 09-08-04, 10:35 AM

Cool I love those snakes. I want to see an eight footer! Congrads.

TheRedDragon · 09-08-04, 03:32 PM

Congratulations! Those are some awesome looking Taiwans. Good luck with them all!

Scales Zoo · 09-08-04, 10:07 PM

Update

This morning, at 7:30 there was 1 baby out. I checked again at 8:00, and there were 6 out, making it 13 in total.

All eggs on the attatched clump had pipped but 1. That 1 looked like it had a little crack in it. I cut it open to find a full term dead baby inside. It did have a tiny pip in the egg, that egg was extra tough and leathery. I should have pipped it yesterday, grrr!!!!

So I pipped the remaining 7 eggs that were yet to pip (there were 21 in total, I had thought so, but then counted 20)

The slug, was a slug like I thought. The one next to it, that I thought was dead, had a squigly worm of a fetal snake inside, and a large yoke - my guess is it developed till 2 weeks. Maybe the dead egg was responsible for the heat that seemed to hatch the inner clutch first.

The other 5 appear to have live babies in them. I was doubtful of # 5 till I looked earlier, and saw it changed positions. It now moves when touched. I did take pictures, and Katt and Vanan were over. 2, maybe 3 of those eggs have blood in the egg, but the babies seem to be alive.

I did snap some pictures of these things, don't have the time right now to upload them.

All 13 that are out seem perfect, and without kinks or deformities. I'm kicking myself for not pipping that one earlier, like I had said I should probably do - but oh well, I'm happy with 13 healthy babies, 17 would be better, 18 would be really nice.

It has been brought to my attention, AGAIN, that the email button off of ssankess does not work. I've looked into it, changed email addresses, sent emails to the admin - but so far nothing is fixed. So, if anyone ever tries sending me emails for any reason, please do so manually and use

scaleszoo@sasktel.net
or
the snakepeople@sasktel.net

Ryan

Katt · 09-08-04, 11:22 PM

Yup, we saw the li'l beauties and boy are they big!! Lots of different patterns and a few are quite light in appearance! Absolutely perfect little babies!!!

Janiman · 09-14-04, 11:14 AM

WOW, congrats!!! I can't wait to hatch a clutch of my own. If anyone is looking for a big beautiful colubrid with lots of personality, I highly recomend one of these babies!

Ryan; The female I got from you last summer is now over 6.5 feet long and around 2000 grams. She's taking medium rats (200g) every 10 days and she's still almost as calm as a corn. I did a summer camp presentation a few weeks ago and she was held by around 35 children between the ages of 5 and 14 and was VERY well behaved.

Nice work on producing some great snakes!

Thanks again,
Francis

Scales Zoo · 09-14-04, 11:37 AM

Thanks Francis, glad to hear yours are doing well.

I see I did not make an update. We ended up with 18 so far seemingly pefect babies. The 5 that were on the outside, hatched 3-4 days later than the inside cluster - and all 5 of those babies are kinda bity, while the first 13 from the inside egg mass (and I'd assume warmer) are not at all bity.

Ryan