Tanimbars out of their eggs....

LTownsend · 06-14-04, 02:40 PM

Well, two of the three made it out successfully. Unfortunately, the third one (a male) didn't hatch, he died while still in the egg; even though I pipped the egg to make it easier for him to get out. I finally decided to cut him out yesterday only to find him dead full term with no sign of deformity at all. He was actually a little larger than the other two, so I am hoping that they are both females; I haven't sexed them yet and probably won't until they are much older since I'm keeping them both. The first three pics are of the second one to hatch; the only one to hatch out completely on it's own. The last pic is of the first one out, which I manually pipped on day 60. They both have perfect scrub attitudes, constantly nipping at me whenever I open their bins; I'm really looking forward to raising them both into mature adults. Hopefully next year I will have better results with my three adult females and have some available to sell to anyone who may be interested in working with this rare species. They're a great little snake to keep.....all scrub, but without the large size to deal with. Enjoy....Lance