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Joe_M
at Thu Jul 22 07:35:37 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Joe_M ]
Good luck with the eggs. There is too little information about your friends eastern hatchlings all dying randomly for anyone to come up with a reasonable conclusion, so I wouldn't worry about that happening to you.
I personally would separate the hatchlings as soon as they are out of the eggs.
As far as the egg painting goes, I think it is a "croc" of BS and would have to see a REAL study with REAL results before believing otherwise, not just a bunch of speculation from a couple of internet geniuses, lol. I don't think it's needed (even if it was proven to influence hatchling snakes) as the previous statement that hatchling milks prefer lizards should not be a blanket statement for all milks. There is very, very little chance of MOST eastern milks EVER encountering a lizard in the wild. (Sure there are some aras where skinks and eastern milks overlap, but much more area, I believe, where easterns are found that no lizards occur.) And as you've stated, you live in an area with NO lizards.
Once again good luck and post pictures when they hatch!
For size reference, this is a day old pinkie. It's pretty amazing what these guys can actually eat at such a small size.

 ----- Joe
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- hatchling l.t.triangulum - crocacutus, Sun Jul 18 13:49:57 2010
- RE: hatchling l.t.triangulum - JYohe, Sun Jul 18 13:57:12 2010
- RE: hatchling l.t.triangulum - jodscovry, Sun Jul 18 21:52:03 2010
- Anoles?? - Jeff Schofield, Sun Jul 18 23:11:24 2010
- RE: Anoles?? - westernNC, Mon Jul 19 12:27:43 2010
- RE: Anoles?? - Jeff Schofield, Mon Jul 19 14:21:27 2010
- What about... - Sunherp, Tue Jul 20 09:54:27 2010
- plus Tennessee ...np - snake_bit, Tue Jul 20 12:37:27 2010
- Yes, but not Eastern milks - KevinM, Tue Jul 20 15:26:51 2010
- Hey, now! - Sunherp, Tue Jul 20 17:03:23 2010
- Your welcome! - jeff schofield, Tue Jul 20 19:40:46 2010
- RE: Hey, now! - KevinM, Tue Jul 20 20:52:50 2010
- Totally... - Sunherp, Wed Jul 21 13:54:01 2010
- YUP - Jeff Schofield, Wed Jul 21 21:32:44 2010
- RE: Anoles?? - jodscovry, Mon Jul 19 19:55:09 2010
- Ummm....CAROLINA anoles?? - amazondoc, Tue Jul 20 12:55:20 2010
- Painting flavors on eggs?????????????? - Jeff Schofield, Sun Jul 18 23:19:31 2010
RE: hatchling l.t.triangulum - Joe_M, Thu Jul 22 07:35:37 2010
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