>>Congrats! Great looking little greens, mine went 91-92. I have my adults down for the winter, can't wait for next year.

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>>Pituophis c. annectans

>>Senticolis t. intermedia

>>Pantherophis bairdi

>>Lampropeltis m. thayeri

>>Lichanura t. trivirgata

>>Pseudopus apodus



Thanks Ryan!



This is the 7th clutch of intermedia I have hatched. Most of mine have hatched sometime around 90 days (give or take), but have ranged from 80 - 94 days - and some clutches have taken several days for the entire clutch to hatch.



My adult females have double clutched every year so far, even without being reintroduced to males. I did not reintroduce either adult female this year, yet both laid second clutches. There seemingly was lower fertility in these, as some of the "good" eggs went bad (including 3 of 4 from the Santa Ritas female), and both females laid a few slugs before the "good" eggs were laid.



I will start cooling all of my adult snakes this weekend, using a small window unit air conditioner to keep room temps in the 60's. I leave the heat tape on all winter for the green rats per work / articles on them by Cranston (Merker). I am going to leave the heat tape and heat cable on for all of my southern and southwestern U.S. snakes, this year (subocs, meahllmorum, L. g. holbrooki, Keys Corns) - but will cool my rhinos and coxi without heat tape. I cool the green rats for about 2 months, from the end of December / beginning of January through the end of February.
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-Toby Brock

Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

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