Awaiting the Pop

[ssssnakeluvr]

awesome pics Steve!!

[zooplan]

stunning!
Your favorie picture doesn´t deal with the snake size
You maust have been close to touching the babies with your camera

[gregmonsta]

Love those pics

[guidofatherof5]

stunning!
Your favorie picture doesn´t deal with the snake size
You maust have been close to touching the babies with your camera

Sony with a macro lens.

[ConcinusMan]

It's definitely the macro lens. You cannot take good pics if you're very close to the subject.

[guidofatherof5]

I offered some food to the babies today. None of them would come out of their hide to try it so I put the food under the hide.
30 minutes later the dish was empty. Not everyone ate but there were a number of full bellies. I'll try again tomorrow.

[ConcinusMan]

Weird. I've said it before, the only baby garters ever born under my care were ordinoides and concinnus and that's been many times. None of them have ever eaten or showed any interest before days 7-12.

Those garbage gut radixes don't waste any time do they?

[zooplan]

None of them have ever eaten or showed any interest before days 7-12.
Those garbage gut radixes don't waste any time do they?

Thats interesting! I would become nervous, if the whole of a cluth refuse eating for two weeks. I use to offer first feed at the second or third day of life to my offspring and expect 60 to 90% success.

[guidofatherof5]

Thats interesting! I would become nervous, if the whole of a cluth refuse eating for two weeks. I use to offer first feed at the second or third day of life to my offspring and expect 60 to 90% success.

That sounds like the same kind of schedule I use.

[ConcinusMan]

You know, I keep hearing that, but much as I expected, even though I offered, none of the concinnus or ordinoides babies took food before day 6 this year, and that was only 2 or 3 of them. The rest took food during days 7-12. I haven't actually kept track of the one's that didn't make it, but so far I'd say around 70% have survived that I know of. The few that have died right here under my care were small and weak right from the start.

The small concinnus litter I had (only 7 babies) were born exceptionally large. They showed no interest in food before day 14. Only lost one of those. The other litters, born much smaller, have caught up to them in size since then.