I have a male/female pair of yearling corns that I purchased from Don Soderberg at South Mountain Reptiles (awesome animals from an awesome dealer) and I had an unexpected surprise tonight.



I have been keeping the two in the same 30 gal. long tank for the past two or three months that I've had them with no complications at all. I didn't brumate the snakes seeing as how I wasn't planning on breeding them, and they've been eating like pigs. The two are up to just a lil over 2 feet a piece and doing great.



Well, I heard a strange sound coming from the cage just after their weekly misting. I took a small flashlight and peeked in, not wanting to turn the main light back on and disturb the snakes. Well, to my astonishment, the male ghost and the female were mating. I hadn't really counted on that happening until next year, but I was pleasantly surprised.



I am a bit concerned about the relative youth of the female, however. She has been doing great, and gaining weight and length very well for the past months, but she's still very young. I was wondering if any of you experienced breeders out there had any opinions on this? Is there anything I can do (other than keeping her well fed and warm) to help her out with bearing the eggs to term? I wish I had known that they'd breed like this even without brumation.... I'd have kept them seperate until next year. Oh well.



Any info or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys, and I'm lookin forward to hatching out some lil beauties.



David

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