which one first?

[zooplan]

http://www.zooplan.net/images/hetwig_240308k.jpg
This is Hetwig, the mother of my first Europen amelanistic red sided,
measured 250 gr. last monday.

[zooplan]

http://www.zooplan.net/images/kltante240308k.jpg
This is her sister, Little Aunt, she never bred before,
measured 180 gr. last monday.

[zooplan]

http://www.zooplan.net/images/grtante240308k.jpg
This is their sister, Big Aunt, she had a cluth of about 15 last year.
Her mate has eaten nearly the whole litter but only 2 survived.
She is the biggest, measured 322 gr. last monday.

[Lori P]

Well, I'm going with Hetwig because I like her name. lol Come on Hetwig! Let's see those babies!!

Welcome back Uno, we missed you!! Are you feeling better??

[reptileparadise]

I hope they will al go at the same time! Baby time is the best!

[anji1971]

I'm pulling for the little one -- if it's her first time being a mom, she should be in the spotlight!
But I hope they all have lots of babies for you, Udo!:)

[zooplan]

all three were mated with, Mischael, my het male, so all offspring will be at least 50% pos.het. for amelanistic.

[adamanteus]

I choose Hetwig also.:)
Welcome back, Udo. We've missed you.

[zooplan]

I´ve missed you too and will have to read a lot untill I´m back up to date again.:D

[Snaky]

Good luck with them, Udo.
I'm patiently waiting for my concinnus, marcianus and cyrtopsis. Certainly the concinnus and marcianus are starting to be very heavily build...

[zooplan]

Today´it was lunch-time for my gravid females:
Big Aunt had no appetite, she has 315 gr. at the moment.
Little Aunt took some baby-rats and raised to 216 gr.
Hetwig was measured to 250 gr. today.

[reptileparadise]

Big Aunt had no appetite,

We defenitly like that!

[zooplan]

On Sunday Big Aunt took one baby rat and shed yesterday.
The skin was about 44".
Little Aunt and hetwig both have eaten 4 baby rats and all three are laying on the hotest spot of the enclosure all the day.

[Snaky]

That's going the right way :cool:

[jeanette]

i want the little one to go first but im guessing it will be hetwig :)
just so the newbie knows..........do you feed the females more before you are going to breed them? or while their pregnant? i know some species of snake eat less and some eat more and some eat not at all whilst they are pregnant so which catagory do garters fit into?

[lestat]

I think you should seperate them some time soon to avoid any mishaps.
Way to go on all three being gravid. Keep us informed about how many each have please.

[zooplan]

They wre seperated when this thread started.
Hetweg had her babies at April 9th.
but there are no good news about they others.
Big aunt had 32 stillborns two days later:(

[adamanteus]

Big aunt had 32 stillborns two days later:(

Udo, I'm sorry to hear that!:(

[Snaky]

So sorry to hear Udo :(

[anji1971]

Oh dear..........all of them stillborn??? How sad.
So sorry to hear that, Udo.:(:(

[Stefan-A]

That's a real shame, Udo. :(

[drache]

that's so sad, Udo
I forget - was this her first litter?
what a shame