So exciting! I’d invite you to Kansas, but if you’re tired of hurricanes, you will only be trading them for tornadoes, haha! I wish you all the best. That can’t be an easy move, especially with health struggles on top of it. I hope it goes very smooth for you, Caryl.
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Those seem super large for having just been laid. I guess the shell has to account for the weight, but that’s exactly double what Jess’s pips just weighed coming out of their eggs. Fascinating. It is weird that eggs are so all over the board in their shape and size…maybe it has some natural selection benefit for eggs to be easily mistaken for other reptiles. 
Although I just re-read her weights and those larger babies came from ~14.5 g eggs, so those ones would be smaller for sure.
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Haha thanks. Had the tornado thing in the past, still get those with landfalling tropical systems, and will 100% take them over hurricanes. We do insist that the next home has a basement or storm cellar.
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Eggs are strange, indeed. When I first got into breeding corns, I was really surprised at how much reptile eggs grow during development. It still amazes me. I was used to hatching poultry and that ain’t a thing with those hard-shelled eggies.
I’m happy to report that Linette ate a small hopper. Bless her heart, she’s also moved out of the nest box. I guess she is making an incorrect cause and effect deduction about what’s been happening. 
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Yes that took me by surprise, too. Since when do eggs GROW? Apparently since LONG before I ever took notice of reptile eggs. Nature is amazing.
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Jubilee decided she needed to lay a second clutch of seven slugs. Five are pretty typical but two are minute.
Mama is fine. Hopefully now she’ll focus on rebuilding herself.
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Just good that they’re all out.
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Indeed it is. Speaking of which, I realized that I hadn’t updated on Twist. She ended up going to the vet for that final egg. She’d gotten it down to about 1" above her vent but it just wasn’t moving after that. She was sedated and the egg was eased out. All should be well, hopefully. According to her xray, she’s got a few more eggs in development. It would be nice if she just didn’t, but if she insists then I hope she gets them all out.
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Hopefully she reabsorbs the developing ones.
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That’s what I’m hoping. I have said it before, but I would absolutely pay for a nice, safe medication to prevent them from having second clutches. Also those random clutches they sometimes insist on laying without having been paired. Lol
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So your hands that you didn’t trust were trustworthy after all. Twist DID have a lump. I’m glad it was removed without major intervention, and I do hope she transports the rest.
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Agreed! Maybe the next generation will figure out a solution there.
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Truffles and Bragi’s babies are pipping! It’s Day 62 for them. When I checked last night, the eggs were looking rough, denting somewhat, shells thinned and certainly not bright white. That’s usually a good indication that the time is near. Parents are Caramel Ghost Stripe het Amel, Halo, and Caramel Cube Stripe het Amel, Anery, Hypo, pos Halo. Three little noses so far!
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Yay! C’mon babies!
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Yay, yay, yay! I’ve been waiting for your thread to have a new update! Welcome, pippies!
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Hey big world 
! Here we come!!! 
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Day 62? I’m glad they didn’t make you wait too long 
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I’m glad they didn’t go too long, also. I’m not very patient, lol. So far I haven’t seen much more than noses. They’ll all be Caramel Stripe with other possible visual traits being Ghost, Anery, Snow, Butter, and Citrine. Halo is in the mix also.
One Caramel Ghost Stripe stuck its head out a bit but when it saw me looking, back into the egg it went. I see four dark(ish) noses and one who looks like a Xanthic Snow or Citrine. I’ve kept myself busy today and tried not to pester them too much. Here’s what I can see. Please forgive the terrible lighting in their incubation room. I’m dying to see more!!
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So fun to see that pink nose! The photography is great regardless of lighting. Do you use just your phone or a DSLR?
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C’mon cutie patooties don’t make Caryl wait!
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