Dave,

...Did you ever detect any fetal heart tones on this snake? I would at least try the doppler with her now to see if there are any. In my limited experience using mine this year I have found that they can be tough to detect early but are much easier to detect late in gestation. I was very sure that my latest litter was going to be a good size litter of mostly live babies because I found so many different fetal heart tones. When I had tried listening for them a month earlier I had only been able to find a few. All of our failures have the potential to teach us something.

Jeff





>>Dave,

>>....It may be as you suspect that she delivered a pile of slugs and ate them. It has been my experince that when they eat one or two slugs they can do it without making too much of a mess but when they eat a bunch of slugs they mush up at least a few of them and leave a really gross mess in the cage. Have you considered that she may instead be "egg bound" with a high slug count litter? If she was mine I would put her into a bathtub of water to get here swimming and see if the extra hydration and exercise can get her to delivery anything else in the oviducts. Worse case scenario is that this gets her some hydration to go with a big meal of fatty slugs.

>>Jeff

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>>>>Noticed a slug in Betty's cage yesterday. When I looked further all I found were two slugs, a small piece of a third slug and what looks like a unabsorbed yolk. Betty went from looking like a gravid female to a just fed one.

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>>>>I'm thinking she fixed herself up a big ol tater salad. Not much to do other than clean up and move forward. Do have a couple more due this week including Bullseye who is looking huge!!

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>>>>Thanks,

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>>>>Dave Colling

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>>>>www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

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>>>>0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)

>>>>0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

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>>>>LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:

>>>>26.49 BRB

>>>>20.21 BCI

>>>>And those are only the breeders

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>>>>lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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