It’s Day 62 for the last first BrightHope Snakes clutch of 2024 and they’re pipping! Parents are Beau (Peach Fire het Caramel, Lavender) and Amoret (Peach Amel het Diffused, Lavender, 50% ph Charcoal). It’s his second clutch, and her first. Expecting visual Amel, Opal, Fire, and Diffused Opals with lots of Peach and Super Peach happening. Hoping everybody hatches healthy. Also hoping I can identify them when they do!
Here are Mom and Dad.
They are! They’re going to be something else once they’ve shed. I’m loving their little faces, dying to see more. I don’t know if confess across in photos, but a couple of them have eyes with a bit of a…greenish? tint in their eyes. Something that isn’t red-based at any rate. Maybe those are the homozygous Lavender/Opals…?
Mmmmmmayyybe…
It probably helps that I talk to my eggs. When they hear my voice as pippies, maybe they’re not as alarmed about the giant hovering nearby. Or at least that’s what I tell myself. Makes me seem slightly less nutty for talking to eggs!
Well actually talking to eggs doesn’t seem quite as odd as talking to plants. I firmly believe that snakes can discern the voice of their owners as opposed to other voices.
So it males sense that little baby pippers recognize voices as well. Especially if they have been talked to while in the egg!
That’s what I say about my snakes and pippies! Gotta say, though, full honesty here - I also talk to plants. And cats, dogs, horses, fish, birds, myself, occasional inanimate objects… I have wondered if this is because I’m an only child and grew up talking to my pets all the time. A friend who is also an “only” does the same thing.
Just to prove that I don’t always take great pics, here’s the final pippy pic for tonight. Yes, there’s a flash, just to make it even less fantastic - yet also more visible! I thought there were nine who had poked a nose into the wide world. There are apparently eleven pipped, zero emerged. I think I’m gonna dream in Peach tonight!
It’s been a busy day around here in all sorts of ways. Sorry to leave y’all hanging!
There are 11 of these babies out so far. They are blazingly bright and beautiful. I’m not going to try and nail down Super Peach/Peach/neither on most until they’ve at least shed. It’s one of those traits which can be hard to ID for a few sheds. Super Peach is possible, as is not having Peach at all. I’ll say that I can see it in some now.
This is only my second clutch with Peach. I’ve watched it develop with last season’s clutch and with a handful of Peach animals whom I purchased as hatchlings. Hopefully I can figure these out with help from some other experienced eyes.
@caron, Peach is an incompletely dominant mutation causing a wash of peachy/coral color over the snake’s body. It was especially noticed at first in certain Lavenders from Rich Hume. (Mine trace to his.) It doesn’t alter pattern, it simply adds, alters, brightens color.
. Maybe she’s a “helicopter mom”!
I thought there were nine who had poked a nose into the wide world. There are apparently eleven pipped, zero emerged. I think I’m gonna dream in Peach tonight!