Newly hatched, minutes old, corn snake
Somehow the shop is also now a managery of sorts.
Besides Bonnie the dog and Callie the cat, there are a fair amount of snakes and lizards living here now along with the rats and crickets needed to feed them.
In fact, there is very little elbow room and working has become much harder stepping around all the cages but they're here, they're alive and I'd like to keep it that way.
So...been baby sitting a clutch of these eggs for two months now. It hasn't been easy.
They need a temperature range of between 76 and 86 degrees. Considering the summer is finally ending and inside shop temps have been in the mid 90's and 100+ outside for the last six months or so, steps to keep the eggs cool enough has been a 24 hour a day job involving ice packs and continuous monitoring of the eggs temps with ideal being 82- 83 degrees.
Diligence paid off today as the first baby crawled out of his shell and into the new world.
Welcome...
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