I also have a young adult female from western Nueces County near the Jim Wells County line which is about 350 grams and over 3 ft long. I estimate her at about 3 years old.

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Yeah, you're right. My B.I. female is close to your western Nueces and prob. has a couple more years of growing to do. BTW, I put my male B.I. rat in with my western Emory's rat and am going to try for a cross bt. the two ssps. I also put my male western Emory's in with an albino corn to try to get some creamsicle hets there. Just for your information.



>>I didn't weigh the eggs or neonates of either '04 or '05 clutch, but the eggs and babies were huge. 11 eggs first clutch and 14 eggs in the second. Here's an '05 neonate before the first shed.

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Wow! Those are pretty large clutches for an Emory's rat, don't you think? The large egg size is more like Emory's though. I'm beginning to think that maybe the whole population bt. Corpus Christi and Houston are intergrades. They just seem different from the other meahllmorum and emoryi. We'll just have to keep plugging away and see what we can find out. Also, for your information, my cross bt. a corn and a B.I. rat produced a clutch of around 13 eggs. I'll be anxious to see what emoryi x meahllmorum and meahllmorum x guttatus and emoryi x guttatus, etc, produces. We could learn a lot in the long run.



PS: Have you seen any guttatus from Mexico? Thanks...



Terry

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