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DMong
at Fri Oct 23 16:05:58 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean about the gaigeae maybe not being quite as big as you might have thought by now. For some reason, many other's have also mentioned this with there's too. Maybe it could very well have something to do with them prefering a cooler environment compared to other tropical American triangulum subspecies, as this could tend to be a factor in some of them growing a little slower than others depending on several factors.
They are definitely one of the larger milk ssp, and although yours isn't a 6 foot monster yet, even at 4.5 feet, as long as she had good robust body weight she should be totally good to go if you did want to breed her this year, but it certainly isn't a necessity that you do so this year.
Many of my friends from the "milk" forum also have gaigae, and they could give some age comparisons if you made a post over there pertaining to it. Several of those guys just had clutches of eggs and offspring this year too, and "D.Niles", and Rob Heineson for example have black milks that they posted that are in the 1100 to 1500 gram range(depending on sex) that are getting towards 6 ft, and they look very robust and stocky, and Daves laid a big clutch of huge eggs several months ago. His stuff is VERY nice and healthy looking, and also had some skin showing too prior to egg laying, but hey, it was a breeder female, so it's a little different especially just prior to breeding and laying eggs.
good luck with breeding those bad boys!
Also, there is a recently imported new bloodline of gaigae that is totally unrelated from the San Antonio Zoo stock like most ALL the lines are, including Mark Bell's too.
Her's a pic of Dave's that he posted recently, and it looks fine at around 1500 grams(just over 3 pounds). There are many other pics of them too if you go to the KS photo gallery to get an idea of what some other's look like. You can also do a image-google for a bunch of photos as well.
Anyway, hope this maybe helped a bit.
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RE: ah yes, ...love has it's price! - DMong, Fri Oct 23 16:05:58 2009