Dragon gave birth today.

[mikem]

Congrats on the babies! They're cute

[i_heart_sneakie_snakes]

Oh, they are so adorable!!! Just the thing to make me smile in the morning, new snakie life Congrats on the cute babies!!!

[Stefan-A]

Those look familiar.

[guidofatherof5]

Congrats on the baby scrubs.
They look big and healthy.

[Invisible Snake]

Great pics, thanks for sharing!

[Mommy2many]

New babies! Congratulations!

[MCwyo]

I could probably spend hours watching these little guys They are all very active. I offered food for the first time yesterday, and one of them snapped it up right away. The rest passed for now.

Dragon is doing great. I moved her into a large enclosure I built- plenty of floor space, multi level climbing opportunities, a variety of hides and a large swimming pool. She is eating fine and seems to be enjoying life as a much slimmer snake

I do have a question. Though I have raised a litter of snakes before, this was the first time I have ever witnessed the birth. The first little snake she dropped was completely unmoving. Minutes went by and it just lay there upside down in the amniotic sack. I thought at first maybe it was stillborn, but I broke the sack and got it going with a bit of stimulation. I ended up assisting with most of the other babies after that. Do the scrubs normally take several minutes to break out of the sack? Was my assistance unnecessary?

[guidofatherof5]

Yes, it does take a few minutes in most cases. Usually assistance isn't needed.
I think breaking out of the egg sack is their first of many survival tests. I find dead babies still in the sack. Not sure if they were stillborn or just weren't strong enough to get out.
Even at birth nature is weeding out the weak from the strong. It's difficult to see it happen as I would like them all to live but I do understand why it has to happen this way.
I used to fight to keep any of them alive. Helping the weak out of their egg sack, force feeding the non-eaters. It was all to no avail. Those snake didn't make it.
Some have the survival switch turned on and others don't even have a switch.

[Stefan-A]

I think breaking out of the egg sack is their first of many survival tests.

Personally, I think that being able to break out of the sack (or the egg) unassisted should be the basic requirement for all snakes in captivity.

[Stefan-A]

I do have a question. Though I have raised a litter of snakes before, this was the first time I have ever witnessed the birth. The first little snake she dropped was completely unmoving. Minutes went by and it just lay there upside down in the amniotic sack. I thought at first maybe it was stillborn, but I broke the sack and got it going with a bit of stimulation. I ended up assisting with most of the other babies after that. Do the scrubs normally take several minutes to break out of the sack? Was my assistance unnecessary?

Sometimes it takes a second, sometimes several minutes.