>>Congratulations on the eggs. Did you check them for fertility? >>Be prepared for a relatively long incubation period.



Hey Thomas. Yeah, the incubation period is a killer. This article puts it between 79 to 93 days, with a period of up to 98 days at one instance. Seems very odd for a colubrid. I did check them for fertility, and at this time I'm not going to either confirm or deny it, as there wasn't any really apparent veining, but there was a red area in the eggs indicated an embryo.



Just curious, have you came across any material that might speculate on while D. typus gestation and incubation is so long? Is that just a common occurence with other African colubrids, or just booms? Like I said in my first post, I originally noted mating attempts back in January. These could have initially just been attemps, but I'm sure I saw hemipenalpenetration and even documented photos of it. So, with that being the case, if 11 Jan was the first true attempted mating, then the eggs were laid June 23, having a separation of over 5 months gestation. Anyway, really neat stuff. I'm just hoping for at least one egg to be fertile! lol, that's all I ask.

-Chance

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