Another 19!

Should have posted about this earlier - but cleaning and feeding 37 babies keeps me very busy! 

On the 23rd December the first baby of the second clutch hatched - seemed he couldn’t wait for Christmas!  No more movement for a couple of days, then heads started poking out on Christmas Day, and by the end of Boxing Day we had another 18 hatch.  19 from the second batch in total - just two eggs failed to hatch.  We were very pleased with this first breeding attempt.

All the seond lot of babies are healthy - none deformed in any way, and all perfect.  Lovely colours, just like the first lot.  Now 3 weeks old, they are growing, shedding and eating well.  The food bills for crickets for all the 37 babies is costing a fortune.

4 of the first babies have now gone to new homes - I’ve heard from the first people who bought a pair, and they seem to be settling in very well.  They are called Magic and Eddy - Eddy after Eddie Murphy who did the voice over for Donkey in the film Shrek, so a nice link back to Shrek and Fiona there.  Nice to think they are happy in their new home.

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