Sounds good.
I usually go with the head of a small pinky for the smaller babies’ first few meals. There isn’t anything wrong with halving the pinkies but I have had a couple who objected to the messy aspect. I try not to give them an excuse to reject their meal, and pinky heads are less messy.
Ok thanks ill make sure to offer them the head!
Agreed on all points.
Just thought id add some new pics! The first one is BamBam borders still seem to have lots of white in them too.
Edit: I also forgot to mention that pebbles has a very interesting belly pattern. They seem to only have checkers on their neck and no where else on their belly. Could this be because of the tessera gene ive heard that that can change how the belly checkers look.
Looking good! I like the sides as well, great contrast with the high white!
They’re looking lovely! Love the names, too, I have sibling cats with the same.
Thanks! Im also wondering if they could be reverse okeetee like the mum due to the high amount of white on their sides?
They very well could be, but I would wait till they color up more and put some size on before definitively labeling them. The do look high white especially towards the tail!
Yea and bambam is completely white on the last few saddles near the tail. They’ve only shed once so far so probably too early to tell but it definitely seems likely. Ive tried comparing to other pictures of baby amels and reverse okeetee amels as babys and they definitely look like reverse okeetee to me but it would still be best to wait for a few more sheds.
Tessera definitely messes with the belly checkers. Some have tons, some have none, and some have a mix.
Yeah I thought that would have been the reasoning for the lack of belly checkers. Thanks!
Those guys are sooooooo pretty! I mean truly pretty! I bet you they will eat tomorrow! I’m sure all their “yolk” is gone and that’s no “yolk”! Lol!
attempting to feed them now as well as all my other snakes 13 total! so far pretty much all my snakes have eaten with just 1 refusal. I’ve got both the babies in a deli cup in a dark space so ill leave them for an hour then check on them.
just checked up on them so far they haven’t eaten. Ill re-warm the pinky and try again.
Edit: Just checked on them and still haven’t eaten. They are both back in the tubs with the food so hopefully they eat overnight.
Hopefully they’ll eat in the quiet, dark night. They really are beautiful babies. Now if they’ll just be cooperative about feeding, they’ll be perfectly perfect.
Yeah thats what im hoping! Ive covered a blanket over them too just to make it a bit darker for them but so far they are still ignoring the food.
I would just go to another room and not peek at them until morning. Sometimes they benefit from undisturbed quiet and no vibrations from people walking and moving around near them. Can’t hurt, anyway.
Sadly that isnt really an option for me since I dont have any spare rooms in my house or a dedicated reptile room so I have to keep them in my room.
No worries, just don’t disturb them unless needed! The blanket was a good idea, we used to put them in brown paper lunch bags in there tub with the same reasoning! Don’t stress if they don’t eat yet give them 5-7 days and try again. You may also want to try love if you can find any that small (hot tamale size😂)from a local breeder.
Im not sure if anyone in my area does breed them. Nobody in my area even breeds corn snakes so it can be quite difficult to get stuff sometimes.
