This little guy finally hatched today. He pipped a couple of days ago and I've been checking on him and waiting to see what he'd look like. Pretty interesting patterning, I think:
Rorschach Baby
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He’s a gorgeous little guy
Thank you. This pic was during his first soak, literally minutes after coming out of his egg.
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Oh wow very cool
Beautiful. Love the speckling on the head.
I think it says: "Soak me. Every day. Please."This is a beautiful looking baby !
It seems that there are secret runes written on his carapax....
What will the baby tell us ???
He is pretty. I really like the head color. How many in the clutch?
Erik Elvis
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Cute little guy! Any group pics?
Ariel Perez
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Really cool looking group !
Erik Elvis
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Any updates on the little guys? Weathers warming up over here on the north east coast.
Hm-m-m-. . . my three clutches of SA eggs are still cooking, and it doesn't look good for any of them hatching. Oh well, there's always this year.
My hatch rates have been terrible. I'm not sure what isn't working, but I'm going to try a some new things this year.
For starters, I'm going to leave the eggs in the ground over winter and dig them all up in spring for incubation. I've bought little baskets and stakes to cover the nest sites and protect them, but still leave the ground open to the elements.
Next, I'm building a new incubator out of a non-funtioning wine fridge so that I can incubate with a night drop. I'll put some eggs in the regular incubator and some in the night drop incubator and compare hatch rates.
Finally, depending on how my incubation experiment with the acidic peat moss goes, I might start incubating the leopard eggs on some peat moss too.
Erik Elvis
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Hey Tom. Do ya think you’ll have one for me in a few weeks? Any chance of picking one out?
I have 8 now and more should hatch in the next few months, so yes. 4 just hatched last week, so those will be ready to go in a few weeks. I like to hold them for 6-8 weeks to get some size on them and get them eating everything. I'll do a for sale thread and post some pics tomorrow.
Here ya go Erik. These are the four that are ready for shipping now. The other four will need a few more weeks, and more will hatch over the next couple of months.
@Erik Elvis pick the far right one. Possible female there.
