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OK, so, first clutch laid May 14th (19 eggs, 4 bad, 1 went bad, 14 successful snakes), Second Clutch Laid June 22nd (19 laid, 5 bad, 2 went bad, 12 expectant this week).

So last night I was sitting here in my room and noticed my female frantically diging and moving about, extremely abnormal behavior but uncanny resemblance to her behavior before she laid the previous times. I look at my EXCEL sheets and noticed she shed 14 days ago, stopped eating about a week before that, and pretty much exacted the pattern of behavior for her two previous lay's. I assumed only two clutches so her shedding and eating patterns never even made me think twice. Then I put it all together.

Sure enough, I get home today and find one slug (bad egg). Nothing else yet.

Should I expect more?

What does this all mean?

What should I do?

I feed my snakes heavily (she eats really well after she lay's and has eaten on average once a week since her last lay. Her weight and length are extremely robust (but she definitely doesn't show her gravidity like she did for her first clutch)...

Has this every happened before?

kathy? Don?

thanks

First clutch laid April 22nd

Second clutch June 7th

One slug today, August 6th

She's eaten 17 adult mice between June 7th and now.

n/p

before she loses so much weight/energy it kills her!

I have no idea, but when/if you get an answer on how to keep this from happening, clue the rest of us in.

Sorry you are having so much trouble. Maybe you should start planning to give her next year off. But then, that may not do any good if she is just going to make slugs anyway, I imagine those take as much energy from her as viable eggs would.

Good luck. Keep updating us.

we'll see... no one is responding so I guess I'm some sort of world record holder

Keep the male away from her for a while. That's all I can think of.