Thank you! I’m pretty darned pleased with them! There is one who still hasn’t pipped. It is alive in there, so hopefully it’s okay. I’m hoping for an encore, as well. Amoret laid a small second clutch. Looks like four of them are developing right along.
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Somehow I doubt he’s going to apologize. That’s okay, as long as he attacks his meals with that degree of gusto. 
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I am sure he will! 
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Guess we’ll see in a week or so.
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Ok so I have to be honest. I have never been bitten or musked on by a corn snake. Milk snakes yes but never a corn! What did you do to him? 
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Ok so I have to be honest. I’ve been occasionally bitten (although unless one is looking, they wouldn’t know it happens. Their teeth are too tiny to notice. Don’t tell the hatchlings!) ah, more than a few times. I have been musked and musked and musked. But this is usually by very, very young babies who arrive knowing that many things in nature would love a snakey snack. Most of them figure out within a couple of weeks that I’m not going to hurt them and stop that stuff. (Edited typos)
I picked him up, gently and carefully. Oh, the nerve!! 
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There you go! Contender wants none of this nicey niice stuff! He came out of the egg ready to live up to his name!
Maybe if you make him a deal he can’t refuse he will show his “godmother” a little respect!
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You’re spot on there, @caron ! His attitude is exactly why he got the name Contender instead of one of the other less aggressive peach cultivar names! 
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Nearly everybody shed over the weekend. The last two have yet to present themselves with their new look. I think I got pics of everybody, but I’m going to have to wait to post them. Here’s a sample though.
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Way too much suspense!
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Sorry, friend. Gotta wait just s bit. On the upside, the last two should shed overnight so you can see them all tomorrow!
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Sounds peachy! 
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Love this pic. 
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All righty, got today’s gang fed and all the poop cleaned for and least 2 minutes (I hope!), so let’s see if I can get these pics posted. Here are a couple of yearling Peach Amels as promised. These have the same sire, Beau. They are single-gene Peach, and Halo as well. Dandy is male, Gala is female. She is the only one in the clutch whom I felt confident was Peach right away. Still do. Lol
Edit to add: they will keep getting brighter. Beau had a similar degree of Peach as I’m seeing in Dandy at the same age. Gala is closer to how Amoret looked as a yearling, but a bit darker. They’re not related.
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Now for the babies’ photo dump. I’ll try to put them in hatching order, I can get my fat fingers to function. Here are Cling, male (BexAm0124, male) and Freestone, female (BexAm0224).
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Elberta (BexAm0324) and Lulu (BexAm0424), both female.
BexAm0624 is Fay, female. Florida Dawn, also female, is BexAm0724.
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Presenting Bonita, BexAm0824. Very intensely Peach, though I don’t think this shows it well.
Apparently I failed to label the pictures of Hatchlings #9 and #10, Nectar and Halford. Need to figure out which is whose. I’m SURE I’ll remember to do that soon… Here’s one of them. I think it’s Nectar.
Edit: the first picture is indeed Nectar. After that, pics are of Bonita, BexAm0824.
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Coronet is a boy, and he’s BexAm1124. Nice diffusion. BexAm1324 is Lucky 13, who is a girl.
This is Redgold. He's looking very intensely Peachy.
The last two shed just this morning, both Opals. BexAm1424 is Harmony. I love her eyes! Contender is BexAm1524. His colors are more intense than Coronet’s.
Other than sorting out Nectar and Halford, that’s it for this clutch! Thanks for looking and for all the moral support!
Edit: I was wrong, that wasn’t all. I had left somebody else out.
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I love those opals! I just wish they kept their baby colors! And some of those amels have quite a bit of orange already seeping in. Very nice clutch!
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Thanks, Olivia!
Me too!! I’m seriously hoping that a Super Peach Opal might turn out to look rather different from the usual Opal. Although I’ve been told, just as I suspected, even figuring out if a baby Opal has a single copy of Peach is “super hard” and takes a while.
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