You asked if anyone had good eggs from only one breeding for a second clutch and for a following year. I have a amel corn that I purchased as one of three sub-adult males and seeing as I couldn't see anyone lying about a snake being a male so they could sell it for less I never sexed any of the animals and one turned out to be a female. She was seen being bred in the cage all 3 animals were in and was removed to a solo cage and fed heavily until she dropped the eggs. When she did drop I fed even heavier and she doubled even though she never even saw another male. She dropped and was feed even heavier then and ovulated huge ova and held these as though she was egg bound until the following season and late in the season (my eggs had already hatched) a male was introduced (not to breed just because of lack of space at the time) and she dropped eggs within 25 days but the phenotype made them obviously the new snow male's babies The rest of my females had dropped 2 months ago at the point of the clutch being deposited ie.. she wasn't going to drop on her own from stored sperm but she did ovulate and swell as if she was egg bound again after she laid last year...again. Back to the point of the question at hand. In my one experience sperm was stored for a second in the same season but even with a female that looked egg bound for 5-6 months she didn't drop eggs until a male was introduced the following season.



As far as the female ovulateing and retaining ova until the next season it was pointed out to me that the heavy feeding I was doing to help the poor little girl was more than likely the problem. This year I'm going to not feed her for 3-4 weeks after she lays her eggs and see if this helps.

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• About retained sperm... - rtdunham, Mon Apr 19 11:44:15 2004
• RE: About retained sperm... - jeph, Mon Apr 19 13:30:49 2004
• Jeff and terry,Let me re word what I was really trying to say - shannon brown, Mon Apr 19 17:40:10 2004
• P.S. AS FAR AS CHANGING MALES ON SECOND CLUTCHES... - shannon brown, Mon Apr 19 17:43:31 2004
• RE: P.S. AS FAR AS CHANGING MALES ON SECOND CLUTCHES... - rtdunham, Wed Apr 21 23:43:53 2004
• RE: P.S. AS FAR AS CHANGING MALES ON SECOND CLUTCHES... - snakesunlimited1, Thu Apr 22 13:45:35 2004
• Funny you should ask that... - blueharlequin, Mon Apr 19 17:02:33 2004
• RE: Funny you should ask that... - rtdunham, Wed Apr 21 23:45:45 2004
• RE: Funny you should ask that... - blueharlequin, Thu Apr 22 17:58:49 2004