Jerry, from my own experience, Ryan is right on the money. The first couple of years I started breeding Lampros I fed the females very heavy after egg laying since I breed my own mice. Guess what, unplanned second clutches from most of them. All infertile by the way. From then on slightly reduced at first, then more towards the end of the season. No more second clutches. It's definitely about condition. Think about snakes in the wild. If "condition" wasn't important, there would be a lot of females that wouldn't even survive a breeding season and/or produce poor quality offspring with low survival chances. Nature favors the strongest, not the weakest. That's why some females are generally not receptive to breeding in a given season. Some type of health or condition response. In captivity it's very easy to promote enough extra "health" for multiple clutches, whether intentional or not....lol. On a brighter note, damn fine snakes here! Nice to see Mike checking in. Regards to all.



Eimon

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