4th and 5th litters born

[Jeff B]

Some good, bad, and ugly in this thread. A small litter of granites and the axanthic Chicago may have been a three year breeding project in vain.
This litter was from a granite to granite checkered breeding, and unfortunately there were 3 stillborns, but 3 healthy babies prevailed.

This litter was good and bad. It was from breeding F1s from the parental wild caught blue-green axanthic Chicago. The good part is there were 20 healthy babies born with no slugs or stillborns, but the bad news is the axanthic did not prove out to be a simple recessive gene, or at least it wasn't obvious at birth. I will raise them up and keep an eye on them for the first few months to see if the color will develop, I am not very optimistic. The odds were that 1 in 4 or 25% chance for axanthic and with 20 babies its very unlikely that is just missed.

[guidofatherof5]

Wow, those granites are awesome.
So are the others.

[Eddie]

Chicago's are cool no matter what my friend.
Congrats once again!!
Keep us posted on the Florida x Het pieds
Ed

[Dan72]

Congrats again Jeff. Your hands are really getting full and I know that if your luck keeps up, which I hope it does, your not done yet! Your still doing something with your albino/red radix cross or did I just dream that up?

[BLUESIRTALIS]

Congrats man! Sweet looking babies!

[Tarzier]

Congrats dude, those Granites are really cool-looking. By the way, what do you mean by 'no slugs' ? I'm assuming it means something similar to 'runt' ?

[guidofatherof5]

Slug/Jellies = unfertilized ovum (egg)

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/bree...lly-beans.html

[Tarzier]

Slug/Jellies = unfertilized ovum (egg)

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/bree...lly-beans.html

Oh. Guess my assumption was way off. That 'gooey' one is a little...Disgusting. Can the snake be hurt if they're not able to get the 'jellies' out? Just curious, as you said you were glad your snake got them out without any difficulties.

[guidofatherof5]

We have members that lost snakes due to slug impaction.

[BUSHSNAKE]

those granites are awesome...sorry the axanthic didnt prove out...bummer for sure its a nice looking morph!!