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My One 2013 Clutch and Results

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things have been really busy for me this year so i gave most of my small collection the year off. i only bred 2 of my females, a pastel and a hypo both to my fire hypo male...the hypo just b/c i love fire hypos and the pastel b/c i was hoping for some firefly female het hypos to breed back to a humblebee in a few years and go for killer fire bee hypos. unfortunately i was in mexico and missed the hypos lay by just a few days but the eggs didnt make it b/c humidity is virtually impossible to control out of an incubator here (im assuming this was the cause) ...fortunately my pastel girl made up for it dropping her usual 12 egg mega clutch.

even with incubation i lost 2 normals to humidity issues and a suspected fire that came out still attached yet failed to absorb yolk.

here are the parents...the pastel is a reallly nice nerd lemon shes just getting outstaged here by the neon fire hypo:
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and a shot of dad:
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heres the clutch...i got to them just too late and they had set which contributed to the humidity issues for the 2 topmost eggs b/c the stacked structure:
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here are 8 of the 9 that made it. the 9th came out after this shot and is very clearly a fire...almost looks hypo. some of these have been a headache trying to distinguish fire vs normal as i am not very experienced with the gene:
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the straggler that didnt make the group shot:
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some of the better fire examples:
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very strange was that the pastel gene only popped up in 2 snakes of the 12!? this pastel is nice and blushed out head but im calling it just a pastel because of the comparison with the firefly that popped out:
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this is the pastel beside the firefly: (pastel on right)
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i was hoping for 2 but was still pumped up about this one poking out: (firefly)
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as usual the pics dont do the firefly justice she came out like a very pale easter egg yellow on chocolate with great clean contrast:
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ill be holding back 4 of these, the pastel and firefly females, my favorite of the fires (a female and the runt of the group at a small 41g hatch) and the one suspected normal but possible fire also female.

have some big plans for 2014 with some of my double and triple gene holdback females getting up over 1200gs now and a cool new male to work with. thx for checking out my clutch, comments/input welcome.
 
Hey man its a nice clutch overall. At least you got some good stuff congrats. Just wondering will a humidifier not keep humidity in your snake room?
 
i sometimes run a humidifier and it can help.. but the average humidity here is 30% and under...often very under, so its still a struggle. getting a bad-@ss incubator for next season though that i think will nail things down on the incubation anyhow.
 
We converted an old upright freezer into an incubator. Ran 11 inch flexwatt down the back hooked up to a thermostat. The incubation tubs we mix 1:1 ratio by weight of vermiculite and water. Usually 250 grams of each.
 
im actually starting to think the 'pastel' could just be a less dramatic firefly than the other. i pulled this pic of a pastel from this same female 2-3 years back and its a pretty huge difference check it out...

pastel from a few years ago, note the dark contrast ect:
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and the current 'pastel' possible firefly:
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obviously the lighting is different i wish i still had him around and at the same size to compare lol. on a positive note now that they are a few days after hatching the fires are if anything a bit lighter and some of the suspected normals are mellowing out in color so i think over time it will be even easier to distinguish those.
 
Yeah it could possibly be a firefly. I wouldnt know because i havent hatched any out before so not an expert on it. Let it go through a few shed cycles and see what it looks like after that. Does have a pretty blushed out head and none of the fires i hatched out look like that. They have more of just a head pattern. Goodluck!
 
I'll admit it's hard to tell what you got. Not sure if it's just me but it looks like you have some granite going on there. I see it on at least six of the hatchlings. Hopefully others can pitch in...nice clutch by the way.
 
yeah there is a lot of orange granitey blushing goin on that made it tougher BUT fortunately the colors on the suspected normals are mellowing out and toning down now they've been out of the egg awhile while the differences of the suspected fires are becoming more prominent so its getting easier to distinguish. i think after the first shed i should be pretty certain. as for the less dramatic firefly ill wait and see how it plays out before deciding if its just a pastel or not.
 
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