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ratsnakehaven
at Sat Jun 13 09:55:43 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ratsnakehaven ]
>>Congrats! Koreans are on our wishlist for ages but are quite hard to find here in Europe!
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>>Our dione's hatched after 21 days. Unfortunatly they are locality hybrids which will stay in the collection. The female was a chinese yellow and the male was a striped Kazachstan.
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>>Unfortunatly due to a misterious disease all but one of our males have died within 2 months! The vets could not find any cause of death except some worms and flagelates. All the animals in our collection have been treated and with the last check nothing was spotted!
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>>Next year we will try to breed our 3 adult Chinese females with new CB Chinese males that will be in our collection at the end of the year just before they go into hybernation.
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>>Am still looking for a adult russian male, The Xi'an pairs and the Kazachstan pairs will be ready to mate next year hopefully.
Sounds like you have some exciting Dione's to work with. At one time I had some Chinese dione and I think they had the longest incubation of my three forms. The others were South Korean and Ukrainian. My Ukrainian dione hatched in 13 days. This species is extremely variable.
The South Korean dione are very nice snakes and fairly large too, as are the Chinese from the s.e. part of their range. Actually, there are several different Chinese forms, as are the Xian, mentioned by you. I'd be very interested in hearing more about these Chinese snakes and the Russian snakes, like the areas they are from, size, clutches, etc.
PS: Some day there will likely be some genetic studies on various populations of this species. I wouldn't be surprised to see it divided into many subspecies, or even several species. I think this is a good snake to keep localities for.
Regards....Terry
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RE: South Korean Dione's Hatching! - ratsnakehaven, Sat Jun 13 09:55:43 2009