In the case of bumgardner, it was in fact sperm retention as the resulting offspring was at least one super conda. I have no idea exactly when the female conda bred the male conda but am guessing it may have been a while since he decided to go ahead and brumate it. That breeding has been done multiple times.

In turcottes case (if i remember correctly)his offspring matched the parents he bred and the siblings from a clutch two years prior.

Mine was similar. The female locked with the male once. I collected her as a baby in 2001. She had never been with another male. She double clutched then put on serious weight , so much so that I actually wondered if she would triple clutch. She did not and actually went off food for a little over a year. She took 3 or 4 mice in november than went off food again. In march I decided to put her into brumation (hoping to trigger a feeding response)and similar to the OPs story,

Noticed her gravid. She was in a tub with heat tape off.(I really think that this small temp change triggered her to ovulate). So was actually warmer than I typically brumated at. She never took even a small meal. Laid 8 perfect eggs then ate a small fuzzy. Within a week she passed the stool normally and then died.
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Thank you,

Kevin Rhodes





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