Beautiful female, beautiful clutch! You don’t have to separate the eggs. You surely don’t want to damage any in the attempt, but apart from that, it’s the way they are designed to incubate in nature. I incubate them clumped together all the time. The ones on the bottom may be surrounded by other eggs but they’re still able to get air due to the shape of the eggs. Here’s one of mine from last season. All 20 hatched just fine.
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Egg updates & stuff!
Nitro laid 13 eggs on the 21st. Didnt look like much was going on inside them, very few barely visible veins.
Candled them today and theyre all definitely good except for the 1 grape sized egg. Lots of everything you want to see when candling. Ive seen that before with my kings eggs when it takes a few days to see anything. Heres the poor girl a few hours after laying:
And her eggs:
Shes already doing much better. She’s not a fan of anything larger at the moment. Has been preferring a couple fuzzies over a hopper. Hey, whatever she wants!
Next, my big ERO Star laid 20 slugs overnight (including the 1 weird slug from last week) and 2 eggs that look somewhat normal but i doube it. All of them are squishy and slippery except for the 2 maybes. Isnt exactly what i was hoping for, but maybe next year!
Shes 4 years old and her 1st year pairing.
And right now my Stormy is laying, can just barely see a clump on eggs through the laybox plastic. They all look big, oval and white. Edit: i took my 6 hour peekaboo & snapped a quick photo. Shes still got a few moreit looks. So far its 15 including the 2 yellow eggs, i really REALLY hope i get at least just one Anery Scaleless from her. Ive wanted one for so long but so expensive or in Canada.
Only have 1 more girl that hasn’t laid. Shyla. Shes one of my favorites. Okeetee Tessera het SL and shes a beautiful girl.
And 2 more somewhat off topic things. 1st, i just thought id leave an egg comparison photo between some average sized Mexican Black King eggs and an average sized corn egg.
Both females are about the same size.
And last, our new addition! My wife named her Sparkles
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Congrats on all of the eggs! Good to see all of those beautiful possibilities in the making!
The comparison photo of corn and MBK eggs is interesting. I didn’t realize there was a such a size difference.
And congrats on the lovely Sparkles! I like to see patches of color on Palmettos. She’s cute!
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Nova is unreal! Good luck with the eggs. Dunno how I missed this post. 
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And last to lay, finally - Shyla. 19 total with 2 of them infertile.
Next photos in a couple months!
I havent familiarized myself with this forum yet so im going to do that now. Curious about all you folks’ photos and projects
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Congratulations on a successful season thus far! Looking forward to seeing babies soon.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to navigate this place. I still end up missing things somehow.
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Edit: As promised! The first clutch of MBKs started pipping 24 hours ago at day 66. 3 more eggs to go. The 2nd clutchs approximate due date is 6/14. Then the 5 clutches of cornsnake eggs are due 6/11, 6/19, 6/26 and two clutches due on 6/29. Im still asking the universe for at least 1 scaleless Anerytheristic. Ive wanted one for so long.
On a different note, do any of you folks use CHAT GTP? I’ve found it to be so very helpful with any and all information from colubrid breeding, mental health, generating charts and punnet squares… anything!
Oh i forgot! 3 new arrivals!
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1 more edit sorry!
These 2 werent interested in each other in March and April. I figured id wait til next year and try again but decided to tried 1 more time last week and this happened! This is what im most excited about right here.
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Holy bleep! What morphs are they?
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Hey you! Whats up!?
The last 2 photos are Alterna (Grey Banded Kingsnakes) the female with the uniform pattern is called Blairs Phase from Juno Road locality and the male would be considered an Intermediate Alterna Phase, and is from the Black Gap area in Texas. Offspring should be pretty wild. My favorite colubrid sub/species.
And the Mexican Black Kingsnake hatchlings are very calm this time. No biting or anything. They cool! And i wanna keep them all!!!
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Hey. The Alterna are too cool. Love the MBKs too!
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Congrats on the babies and the new arrivals. Hopefully the hatchlings will stay calm. Some of them find their spice after they shed, lol.
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Thanks!!!
And oh yeah, theyve already found it. I just went to change waters and re moisten paper towels and got bit and chewed on by a few of em. Not that i mind.
I forgot how in only 24 hours time their little brains turn on like that.
Looks like 5 of em will be the typical all black with just a bit of white under the chin, and one has faint but visible banding. Will probably mostly disapear after a while but thats one that im definitely as a pet. Ive always been a fan of the oddballs…
Looks like 4.2 but ill confirm after 1st shed.
Do you order your feeders online? If yeah, do you prefer RodentPro or BigCheese or somewhere else?
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Love ‘em. Yeah, I have no problem with a hint of banding. Nice keeper.
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Pretty babies.
Yep. Personally I’m a huge fan of Perfect Prey. My backup is Big Cheese. I also like ColdBlooded Cafe. I used to use those plus RodentPro depending upon availability but had a few issues with RodentPro last year. Sizes were really inconsistent, several packages were way underweight. One bag looked outright underfed. That’s when I switched for keeps.
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Ok I didn’t wanna say anything right iff the bat but ive had issues with rodentpro too. I received 3 orders in a row that had about 15%-18% of hopper size and up that had open bellys. After thawing, the insides would fall out and dangle and it was just nasty. I switched to BigCheese and have been mostly happy, minus the occasional headless mice. Which I get, the temps they freeze them to nakes them brittle so its bound to happen here and there.
Can i ask what you like about Perfect Prey over BigCheese? Ive never used them but I’m always open to new/better feeders.
Also, my very first corn pipped earlier! Extra excited!!!
But wanted to ask opinions. The pairing was both RedFactor Amel het Scaleless/Anery. Ive had both of those adults since hatchlings and theyve always looked the same - color-wise. As in almost zero white pigment.
But heres that 1st baby to pip and already i see borderline reverse okeetee sized white borders.
Anyone know whats up with that?
Heres parent photos and what i can see of the baby so far:
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@jaminsquadrito I buy my feeders from ARS. But I live close by so I save a ton on freight . And the feeders are great
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Oh geez, that’s pretty horrifying. 
Love that faintly banded mbk! I only recently learned that mbks can even have banding. I’d only ever seen captive specimens, so I had no idea that banding is apparently pretty common in the wild.
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Congrats on the pippy! 
As for the borders, those are always bigger when they are new. Those don’t look like RO pippy borders to me. Reds tend to be less dramatic overall on new pippies and hatchlings. After it gets out of the egg it will likely darken a bit, and show even more color after it sheds. Of course it msy have bigger borders than its parents, but wait a bit to get a better idea of the babies’ looks.
Kind of subtle, but the feeders just always seem to be really excellent. Customer service is great also. I haven’t had any issues with Big Cheese, I just lean a bit towards Perfect Prey.
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