If the males sperm was viable, and the eggs themselves were also good, you will see the entire rear half of the female swell and become heavy and more solid with the growing viable eggs.

Just after her next shed, you should put a "lay box" inside her enclose that is filled with lots of fluffy slightly moistened sphagnum moss. About 5 to 10 days after her prey-lay shed, she will deposit the eggs. If you observe her closely, you will tend to see her going in and out of the box checking things out now and then, and approx. one to two days before actually laying, she will just stay there until she lays the clutch.

After she lays, mark all the tops of the eggs, and transfer into slightly moistened vermiculite, and nestle the eggs mark-side-up into a dimpled "cradle" into the vermiculite to where about 3/4th's of the egg is still exposed.

Incubate at 80-81 degrees or so, and in around 55-60 days, they should begin to hatch.


good luck!


~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

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