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,