Yes, I had a bunch of healthy 5-6 g babies this season in one clutch from a young mother with 21 eggs. That’s on the smaller side but not unusual with larger clutches. Most hatch more like 7-8 g. One clutch this season was more like 9-10 g. My smallest were around 3 g. Those were twins, and one who was in a truly tiny egg.
I can’t imagine this at all! 
GOODNESS it’s been a while.
Sangfroid is quite large now, and I am again struggling to keep that dang enclosure gardeny. I figured out where His Squiggliness likes to hide- under the base slates of some of his decor. I intend to put little feet on those so that they sit a half inch off the ground medium and provide him with a perfect hide of the very very low flat kind he likes.
He’s still on Live. Sigh. Sometimes, once in a long while, I can get him to take F/T. But he’s still eating fuzzies. Finally got onto the local reptile shop’s preorder scheme for Live food so now I don’t have to worry about getting them.
Pic tax! It is Spring, and the garden needs WORK but here is Sangfroid in the African violets.
Sangfroid!! Love you little guy! Or not so little guy – I’m glad he’s been putting on weight for you. Picky man, but at least he’s eating.
He looks so perfect in that african violet. Nice to see his cute face.
Yay for Sangfroid continuing to grow and occasionally deign to pose for adorable pictures! He’s so ridiculously cute, peering out among those fuzzy stems and blooms. 
So I should break my silence too and talk about the new little lady in our house. I’ve been holding off until I can get some good pictures of her, which has been a slow, slow process. She came to us darty and afraid of humans, and we’re taking our time acclimating her – sitting outside her tank when she’s active, getting her used to us messing with her quarantine tanks a little bit, only handling her for rare weigh-ins (and one vet visit where this little charmer farted on and bit the vet.)
You probably have seen her before in the Recently Purchased thread, but here she is: Andromeda the blue-eye boaedon capensis.
These were taking during her monthly weigh-in. She was certainly less darty this time than she had been last time.
She came to us a little over a month ago, from a breeder in Quebec who got her from someone else, but whose breeding plans had fallen through – so we’re her third home. She’s about two years old and 100 grams, but an absolutely awesome eater.
She’s extremely suspicious of humans and will run if I try and scoop her, but I am also beginning to get the sense that her personality, when she’s not spooked, is incredibly curious. She roams around her enclosure all night, hangs out on all the decor, checks out anything new we put in thoroughly, and has been absolutely fascinated by the camera the few times I’ve had her near it. If she can get over her dartiness, I think she’ll be a really fun little companion snake. I cannot get over how interested these snakes are.
Speaking of other housies, Chester tax:
Hangin out playing Mass Effect with us.
In slightly unrelated news, I am beginning to expect from how her tail has begun to look as she’s growing, that Chester may be male rather than the female she was sold as. Time will tell. I will laugh, though; that’s what we get for getting cheeky about naming her Chester I suppose.
