1st eggs of the season!

[mclund]

Originally Posted by Primal Rage

Thanks Sublime! I paired her with a extreme hypo male(falcon line). She is also an extreme hypo female(falcon line) and happens to be one of the lightest females I have ever seen. Hopefully I will end up with some absolutely smoking babies. Incubation usually takes 73-80 days. Sorry to hear about your infertile clutch. Good luck with your next clutches.

Congrats on the Hondo eggs! I always enjoyed working with them. The hatchlings are some of prettiest of all. I am curious to know what temp are you incubating at? At 73-80 days you have to be down around 78 degrees. I had much better luck at 82-83 degrees. In my experience the Hondo's have a very broad range of temps to incubate. (77-88) For me, the lower temps always produced smaller hatchlings. At a consistent 83 degrees they should hatch in 58-60 days and produce very robust hatchlings..just my 2 cents worth.

Matt

[Primal Rage]

Thanks Ziggy!!

mclund,
My temps float around 79-80. I thought I read somewhere that at the low end of the temps the babies did take longer to hatch but they were bigger and had absorbed more of the yolk. Thank you very much for your input!! I am about to go bump the temps up 2 degrees!

[sharthun]

Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy

Looking good Rage!Keep em comin brother.

Yeah! Way to go Rage!

[mclund]

Originally Posted by Primal Rage

Thanks Ziggy!!

mclund,
My temps float around 79-80. I thought I read somewhere that at the low end of the temps the babies did take longer to hatch but they were bigger and had absorbed more of the yolk. Thank you very much for your input!! I am about to go bump the temps up 2 degrees!

I think its a good decision, you will not have any problems at 82-83. I was always afraid to go up higher, but I have know others to incubate them at 85. The higher temperatures can result in animals with kinks. Anything over 90...get the salt and paper and have some lunch...cause they are cooked. Best of Luck with them!

[Primal Rage]

Thx Steve!!

Got home this afternoon and she had finished laying her clutch. Poor thing is all shriveled up! She is gonna get a rat pup buffet tomorrow before I leave for a 3 day fishing trip to Lake Guntersville! Her egg laying timing was perfect!

[mclund]

Had to dig up one of my old hatch pics...I really miss these snakes.[

hondhatch1.jpg

[Primal Rage]

Nice baby hondos Mclund! Got home from work today to find that another one of my females laid a 7 egg clutch! I have candled all my other eggs and they appear to have little spider web networks of veins within them! Here is a couple pics of the most recent.

[sharthun]

Awesome Rage!

[Jim Smith]

Wow! You're going to be the proud papa of a ton of new babies in the not too distant future. Thanks for sharing and please keep us posted with photos when they start hatching.

[Primal Rage]

Thanks Steve and Jim! I am not sure what I am going to do with 20 something snakes if they all end up hatching. Came home to another clutch today. 9 eggs total.

[EL Ziggy]

Congrats again Rage! I'm sure you'll have no problem selling those beauties

[sharthun]

Originally Posted by Primal Rage

Thanks Steve and Jim! I am not sure what I am going to do with 20 something snakes if they all end up hatching. Came home to another clutch today. 9 eggs total.

Rage, if you could talk my wife into it, I would take one! hehe

[Primal Rage]

Ziggy, I hope so. Hoping to do some trading as well as some sales.

Steve, send me her email and I will try to convince her that a new snake will make you happier!

Here is a shot of the incubator with the eggs cooking! I was going to convert a mini fridge but after gutting it out there was a very weird smell that I could not get rid of. Not knowing what the smell or fumes were I bit the bullet and got a HotBox incubator.

[sharthun]

That's a great idea Rage! I don't know much about Incubators, but that one looks nice and adequate!

Originally Posted by Primal Rage

Ziggy, I hope so. Hoping to do some trading as well as some sales.

Steve, send me her email and I will try to convince her that a new snake will make you happier!

Here is a shot of the incubator with the eggs cooking! I was going to convert a mini fridge but after gutting it out there was a very weird smell that I could not get rid of. Not knowing what the smell or fumes were I bit the bullet and got a HotBox incubator.

[Primal Rage]

Hello all! The first clutch started to pip yesterday morning. Two out of three were out of the egg this morning. I am so relieved! Here are some pics!!