Snakelets have arrived!!!

[matt_fsr]

Yay! After 10 weeks of waiting, our snake eggs have finally hatched

Proud (well, as proud as snakes get) mummy is here - shes an anerythristic corn snake, Achilles:

This is big daddy Merkava, a buttercorn commonly referred to these days as "Merky Merky big snake"

Really chuffed at the moment, as we've had snake eggs before but they've never made it to hatching. Got 1 of the red colour above, and 6 of the grey/white.

(If anyone's seriously interested, we will be selling these off in about 6-8 weeks, depending on how well they do with their first few feeds.)

 

[matt_fsr]

Heh, yep we're chuffed - they're quick little things at the moment when you get them out of their little tubs, they usually make a bee-line for the floor as they haven't learned to grip on yet

We've had the parents about 6 years, it was only 3 years ago we first saw them "at it" per se, both coiling up together rather intimately - was a bit unusual behaviour for 2 snakes we'd been told were female, so we split them up. Funny, some eggs turned up a few months later from Achilles....

They have a very hidden opening about 8/10ths of the way down their body, that opens up to lay eggs, and also can be probed (by a vet/pet shop) to determine what sex a snake is.

They'll eat 1 day old baby mice, dead ones - got 100 in the freezer at the moment Some of the babies seem a bit young to take the mouse's head, they seem to prefer the body as they can probably get it down easier without having to crush the skull.

Great pets

Oh, and the rest of the menagerie includes 4 leopard geckos of various colours, 2 bearded dragons, 2 fire skinks, a 1 yearr old jungle corn snake... and a pair of seemingly boring kittehs.