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[Bay_area]

I'lll try to get some larger guppies tonight when a store in Mountain View gets it's shipment in. If I'm in luck they may get minows as well.
Get my e-mail about the zonata's? I'm waiting on two at this point. One egg is highly swollen - to about twice the size the other three swelled to for some reason (is there such a thing as a double yolked snake egg that hatches twins?) and the last egg is slightly moldy (has been for weeks) and has some thin spots - so thin you can see the snake's markings throug the shell. The two that hatched look good and healthy.

Yes, I got the e-mail. Sorry I didn't reply right away. Super busy with everything & to top it off my Son decided to get married. He calls me about 6 times a day asking questions about the wedding. HOW WOULD I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WEDDINGS! LOL!

Congrats on the zonatas! Yes, it could be twins. However, it is probly just one that absorbed alot of water. Those ones are ussually the last ones to hatch. I will try & call you tomarrow

[Snake lover 3-25]

hi and welcome to a great forum!!!!!!

[crzy_kevo]

it is possible to have more than one snake hatch from an egg there is a vid on youtube

found it YouTube - Check this out 18 snakes in 8 eggs!

[Peet]

Minnows worked! Too many "warehouse" pet stores that don't carry minnows have replaced the smaller shops but I finally found one that has them, and both garters ate on their own last night. One had to have a minnow placed in its mouth - but after it swallowed it, and I waited a few minutes and then came back it took a second from my hand so all is well now!
That one big egg has slits in it this morning. There is a tiny bit of red spotting around one of the slits that has me a bit concerned but I guess that isn't too unusual. maybe a partially formed embryo is in there along with a healthy snake? Many snakes prefer to hatch at night (even in an incubator, they somehow know day from night) and if they can't get the job done before daybreak they hang out in the egg and finish hatching the next evening, so it may be tommorrow before I know the status of "monster egg."

[Peet]

Well the one from the oversized egg is out. Nothing out of the ordinary, just a larger than usual hatchling.

[Bay_area]

Well the one from the oversized egg is out. Nothing out of the ordinary, just a larger than usual hatchling.

At least it hatched! I had the worste results this year with all my eggs went bad. 15+ years of breeding snakes & I have never had such poor results. So, BIG CONGRATS!

On the otherhand, I think my rainbow boa is going to have her babies soon. She is cruising around the cage when I got home. That is the most she has moved in 3 months! Keeping my fingers crossed!
Sincerely, Jerry

[jitami]

Cool... thanks for the update. I know nothing about incubating/hatching eggs and was wondering how the "giant" egg was doing.

[drache]

glad you got one of them to take a guppy

it's weird how where you are the pet shops don't have minnows - here they don't have guppies
one pet shop employee was telling me that minnows were guppies
my response was "you work in the fish department, right?"

[Peet]

glad you got one of them to take a guppy

it's weird how where you are the pet shops don't have minnows - here they don't have guppies
one pet shop employee was telling me that minnows were guppies
my response was "you work in the fish department, right?"

Was it a Petco? Cause around here, I think Petco hires the people the DMV rejects.
Good luck with that rainbow Jerry.

[infernalis]

Was it a Petco? Cause around here, I think Petco hires the people the DMV rejects.

Our local petco has one snake enthusiast, he is always a pleasure.

I told him "I got an Infernalis" (Verbatim) and he perked right up and said really, I have never seen a California garter in person.

He probably won't work for petco long