Holy mother of BABIES...

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

Let me apologize ahead of time for not having any pictures available tonight... check back tomorrow

Mini-Zack, a female sirtalis I have had several years now, surprised me beyond belief tonight. I knew she was gravid to a nice greenish male I have... but I did not expect 36 babies!!!! I guess all those pinkies and worms did not go to waste after all

In total, there were 30 live squigglies and 6 stillborn. The live ones all look great, and are unbelievably varied. One of them however worries me... he is just a little bit bigger than a newborn dekay's snake.. he's half, possibly a third of the size of his brothers and sisters. I didn't even think he was alive when he came out!!! I was about to scoop him up because I thought he was an underdeveloped slug... but I picked him up and was very surprised to see him come to life! He is a functional snake... just really, amazingly tiny.

My recently acquired female red-bellied snake female also recently birthed 4 babies, (no congrats on them please as I did not breed these) I had only kept her because I thought she WASN'T gravid... it just goes to show you can never truly tell. Those little fellas are going back to their homeland next weekend because i dont have baby slugs! (along with 95 percent of minizack's babies).

On top of all that.... my first corn snakes ever pipped tonight, 10 days early! I have 2 normals, 2 amels and 1 anery (what I REALLY WANTED), I think those are pretty good odds for the parents only being hets for those traits. it was both mom and dad's first time this year.

All this plus the 20 FL blues born last weekend... I am swamped and I love it. But let me tell you... it's so much work!!! ...........and I love it.

Allow me to say that there is truely nothing more exhilarating than raising up two snakes from tiny babies, and then having them successfully breed and produce their very own offspring. Seeing babies peek out of the egg, or getting to watch them be born and take their first little breaths and flick their delicate little tongues for the first time ever will NEVER grow old to me, whether it is the 100th or the 1000th clutch.

[Stefan-A]

Congratulations.

[zooplan]

sounds like you had a "good night"
Congratulations!

[Snaky]

Congratulations! It was a good night

[bio6464]

Congrats Shannon, it's a good week for babies.
Jerry

[Sid]

Congratulations, Shannon

[anji1971]

Congratulations, Shannon!

[drache]

congrats, Shannon
you're going to be one busy lady

[Snake lover 3-25]

congrats!!!! good luck!!!

[jitami]

Congratulations Shannon! Hope the little one pulls through for you!