Returning from the Keys (our home away from home), we knew we would have some baby reptiles hatching soon. Sure enough, when I peeked into the incubator, there were 6 baby bearded dragons crawling around and 3 or 4 baby corn snakes coiled around the eggs. Snakes are funny little hatchlings. They slit the egg with their egg tooth, poke their head out, then dart back inside for a day or two until they are quite sure it is safe to come out. Within three days, however, we had 11 new little serpents slithering in little homes of their own (and 19 little dragons). Unfortunately, one did not live beyond the three day mark, but sometimes that happens with animals that have many young. The others are quite healthy, and the coloration is a bright as we expected it would be!
