It has actually taken me about 15(!?!)years to FINALLY accumulate enough of each sex and in the proper condition to perform "routine"breeding trials.These are RARE in the wild,and even worse than most eastern milks that notoriously are finicky eaters and prone to blistering as wc adults.I have hatched one clutch(that I swapped out to Carl B--and they didnt go for him)and Carl lost a clutch of eggs for some other unknown reason.The hatchlings are HUGE,and go through similar color changes as regular easterns.I find working with the small ones MUCH easier than the adults.This female ate only ONCE(mole) since found last summer(she is around 4')and laid 8 eggs of which 6 look good.The bigger specimens seem to show more of the "green"/"hypo"tinting than the young,but working with them this long I can start to notice subtle differences.I will be paying ALOT of attention to these eggs as I have also found an anerythristic from this spot.This project lost alot of momentum last year when my collection was stolen and these were all sold off as "normal"easterns....some people dont know what they have....these are some REALLY nice "easterns".Jeff

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