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Hi Everyone,
I held out till today posting an update on the Banin (Mainland) X Bader Aru clutch. Aaron and I discussed our desire for absolutely honest transparency in our herpetoculture last fall, so here's the poop, without any holdbacks.
Many of you know I was dying waiting for this clutch to hatch. My wonderful and tolerant wife can bear witness to my elevated stress level these past two weeks. They was no activity even to day 54 other than denting. Eddie Aste, Rico, David Newton, Shiloh, and Greg Stephens especially know my stress level as I was bothering them for consolation, advice, and validation. Special thanks to all of you. Rico asked if I had calibrated my thermostat, good question. Well I checked and it was perfect. I had established the incubator and several egg boxes over a month before oviposition. It's a cabinet style incubator with a fan drawing air from the top and through the side where the heating element is. However, since that time gradients had developed in my incubator (colder at the top!) resulting in the clutch incubating in the high 85 to low 86 range. They were at these temperatures for most of their incubation I'm guessing. I had failed to effectively monitor all parts of the incubator, not an issue now I assure you all!
I pipped three of the twenty eggs on day 56 to discover living neonates, on day 57 seven more, on day 58 I pipped the rest. All tolled there were twenty living babies in the twenty eggs. I wicked a little bit of yolk out per recommendation to avoid drowing and set them up in a hatch tub in the incubator. On day 60 I moved them to my baby rack into hatch tubs, 87 degrees.
The first baby emerged this Sunday on day 61. As of today (day 64) seventeen have emerged, two are probably out now, and one just poked out his head. Several of these were pipped for a week or more before hatching. Nearly all of them weigh 13g with little to no yolk remaining in the egg.
One has a significant kink 1/3 from the cloaca and will be euthanized shortly. Another has a small kink, it's fate has yet to be decided. I haven't counted yet, but it looks to be 60/40 yellows to red. BTW, there are some smokers!!!!!!
So here's the pictures!!!
Dam: Aru on loan from my good friend Nick Bader
I held out till today posting an update on the Banin (Mainland) X Bader Aru clutch. Aaron and I discussed our desire for absolutely honest transparency in our herpetoculture last fall, so here's the poop, without any holdbacks.
Many of you know I was dying waiting for this clutch to hatch. My wonderful and tolerant wife can bear witness to my elevated stress level these past two weeks. They was no activity even to day 54 other than denting. Eddie Aste, Rico, David Newton, Shiloh, and Greg Stephens especially know my stress level as I was bothering them for consolation, advice, and validation. Special thanks to all of you. Rico asked if I had calibrated my thermostat, good question. Well I checked and it was perfect. I had established the incubator and several egg boxes over a month before oviposition. It's a cabinet style incubator with a fan drawing air from the top and through the side where the heating element is. However, since that time gradients had developed in my incubator (colder at the top!) resulting in the clutch incubating in the high 85 to low 86 range. They were at these temperatures for most of their incubation I'm guessing. I had failed to effectively monitor all parts of the incubator, not an issue now I assure you all!
I pipped three of the twenty eggs on day 56 to discover living neonates, on day 57 seven more, on day 58 I pipped the rest. All tolled there were twenty living babies in the twenty eggs. I wicked a little bit of yolk out per recommendation to avoid drowing and set them up in a hatch tub in the incubator. On day 60 I moved them to my baby rack into hatch tubs, 87 degrees.
The first baby emerged this Sunday on day 61. As of today (day 64) seventeen have emerged, two are probably out now, and one just poked out his head. Several of these were pipped for a week or more before hatching. Nearly all of them weigh 13g with little to no yolk remaining in the egg.
One has a significant kink 1/3 from the cloaca and will be euthanized shortly. Another has a small kink, it's fate has yet to be decided. I haven't counted yet, but it looks to be 60/40 yellows to red. BTW, there are some smokers!!!!!!
So here's the pictures!!!
Dam: Aru on loan from my good friend Nick Bader
Sire: Banin, acquired from Steve Frist, purchased from Frantz as a Sorong, likely a BM import. Definitely a red neo.
The kids we're still waiting on.
Et alia:
The first red one out, and a killer one to boot
High hope for this one, it's REALLY cool
Egg tooth shot
Now we're just hoping their all heathy and feed despite the long incubation. Wish me luck. I hope this experience contributes to others' experience
as it has mine. Thanks for all the support MVF!!
Now, I have to deal with the other clutches, don't ask, please.
