The first clutch of 2025 are doing fine. All babies have shed out and are looking great. Five of the seventeen have already eaten their first meals. One of the babies even took a second meal already. So I am confident these ones will be doing just fine. One of the albino babies took their sweet time getting into their first shed. It shed almost a week after all the others, but seems to be in good health. I started to worry since everyone else shed. So I put the problematic youngster in a shoebox with moist paper towels and it did the trick. The shed came off perfectly. They have not eaten yet, but I will keep trying.
These albino eastern kings are really awesome looking snakes. I love their pink color they have now. Eventually though that will turn to white. The normals are great looking too. All of them have the typical feisty attitude of a baby lampropeltis getula. They are quite cute when they are looking and acting like little cobras. I will offer them all another meal in the next few days. Hopefully those that have eaten will eat again and those that have not eaten will start. They have to be getting hungry as I am sure they have already absorbed all their yolks.
We are also a couple weeks away from hatching out some hypo mosaic Florida kings with some of those being lavender hybino mosaics. I am really excited for those snakes to start pipping. So far all the eggs from that clutch look great. After that we will have another clutch of Florida kings which should all be hypo along with about half of them being T- hybino. So stay tuned, as things are getting very busy around here.
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