The highlight of the week has been the completion (almost)of our new adult snake room. I say almost, because it is missing the sink. I haven’t been able tofind the sink I saw a while back, soI will look for another week or two, and then I will look to the internet if I have to. Pics are below. I will put some updated pics up after it fills up more. It really takes a while tomove racks from one building toanother. I definitely don’t envy people that actually have to move a collection over a distance with a vehicle.

Now for the horrible hatching week. Probably our most anticipated clucth of the year hatched yesterday. Clutch #42 was from breeding our Pinstripe Het. VPI Axanthic to a VPI Axanthic girl. She gave us 1 slug, 1 infertile egg and 9 good eggs. Man I was excited, how could I miss this. Well, we got 6 Pin Het Axanthics, 2 Het Axanthics and 1 Axanthic. Hey, we have hatched some good stuff, and still have some interesting stuff in the bator, so I figured I would hit the Axanthic Pin in one of the other clutches (we have 2 more shots from Het Axanthic girls). Clutch #43 was from a Pastel Poss. Het. G-Stripe bred to his Pastel daughter. Well, he didn’t prove out, or maybe it was her, but we didn’t get any Super Pastels either. Nor did we get any Normals. 8 Pastels crawled out of the eggs. Man, it can’t get any worse can it. Well, I cut my Sable to Spider clutch. 1 Sable, 2 Normals, 1 Spider, and the last egg was a fully formed dead Sable Spider. Gee Whiz. Last kick in the pants was our Cinny Het Hypo bred to his Cinny Sister. We hoped she would be Het Hypo. Well, No Cinny Hypos, No Hypos, and guess what, no Super Cinnys either. 2 Cinnys and 3 Normals. Hopefully our luck will turn around.

On a brighter note, though, we do have at least 1 Stinger Bee in the egg, and possibly 2, along with a very reduced Enchi.

Lastly, I took a pic of some of the holbacks from this year. We waited until some of these shed before taking the pic, so taht is the reason for the delay in updates for some of these animals. Pictured clockwise from the top left are a Genetic Stripe female, a Mystic Potion female, a Sable Pinstripe female, a Pastel Spotnose male and in the center, a Pewter Het Pied male.

Enjoy the pics, and thanks for reading,

This week has been fairly exciting. We tried last year for Pastel Sppotnoses, but the one clutch we got, failed to hit the cross. This year we got another small clutch, but we got lucky and hatched out a male Pastel Spotnose. He just shed this week, and I am thrilled. I’ll get another pic of him soon.

Also last year, we tried to produce a Sable Pinstripe. The Pin female decided not to lay last year. This year, we bred the same 2 animals together, and out of a five egg clutch, we were fortunate enough to produce a female Sable Pinstripe. It appears to look very similar to a Chocolate Pinstripe, but has some very subtle differences. I have long felt that Sables and Chocolates were as similar to one another as Mojaves and Lessers or Cinnys and Black Pastels. I was hoping for a Male Sable Pin, so that I could attempt to make a Camo Ball a bit faster, but I guess that project will have to wait a bit longer. I guess this will allow me to make another Sable cross male to breed to the Sable Pin female. I haven’t figured it out yet, but maybe a Sable Spider, Sable Pastel or Sable Enchi. We’ll see what happens. For now, you just have to enjoy the pics.

We have had an exciting week. We finally hit on the Mystic Potion, after missing on our first clutch. We also just today hatched out our first Pastel Spotnose. We tried to make these last year and missed, but were fortunate enough to get a male this year. We have some Spotnose girls growing up, so maybe we can make a Pastel Powerball in the near future. We also hatched out 3.2 Double Het VPI Axanthic Pieds. They look normal, but I know what they can do,and therefore, it was exciting for me. Lastly, we have 2 clutches that will be hatching soon that we are excited about. First up is a Sable Pinstripe waiting in the egg. I can’t wait to see it out. Stay tuned in to see it when it emerges. We also have 3 Pewter Het. Pieds and 2 Pastel Het Pieds in the eggs from breeding our Pied male to a Sterling female. The Pewters look amazing. On to the pics for the week.

Have a good week, and check back soon.