Leaving home

Its been a month since my babies hatched. Today they all left home (apart form 2.)

I emailed the Japanese Koi Company a couple weeks ago explaining about my babies. They kindly agreed to take them on. 

So after a few weeks of eating they were ready to go. I had been collecting all the food box's from the Mealworms and Locusts. These are ideal for 1 baby snake to fit in. 

After loading them up, i drove over to Henlow where Japanese Koi Company is. 

Job done!!

The next clutch of about 5-6 eggs are due to hatch in 4 weeks time!

Feeding pics

My babies having a munch on pinkies.

Huge meal

The little guys who have eaten

JD getting carried away

I fed the lil guys a few at a time. So far half have ate there pinkies.

Eating

Its been a week since the little hatchling hatched. 3 of them have just shed for the first time. So i decided to attempt to feed them. 1 of them was interested and ate as soon as i dropped the pinkie in. The other 2 don''t seem interested yet. I will feed the rest of the hatchlings as an when they shed.

Babies

pipping pics

Pipping!!!!!!

What a day, 1st Angel lays her 2nd clutch, now the eggs are starting to pip.

Pipping is when the baby snakes cut through there egg shells and poke there head out of the egg. they will sit like this for a few hours. 

So far there are 10 that have pipped, 1 of these has fully emerged from his egg!

More eggs

Angel decided to lay her eggs yesterday afternoon. I arrived home from work about 3pm, to find that Angel was curled around 5 small eggs, after a couple of hours there were 10.

  Unfortunately i had to go back to work (i was on a split shift) By the time i had got back, about 11pm there were 26. I left Angel in her nest box over night an sorted out the eggs this morning. Half of them are brown and oval (so expect they are infertile.)

So the counting days has begun, i have estimated that they will hatch in the 1st week in september, 60 days to go!