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Just started pipping today (er, yesterday, haven't gone to bed yet ...)
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3.3 L. getula californiae
1.0 L. getula nigrita
1.0 Boa constrictor constrictor (suriname, fostering/rescue)
2.1.2 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata

Congrats on the little one! What type is it? Please post some pics when it hatches.
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Slipstream Serpents

My Reptile Family:
1.1.0 Leopard Geckos (Booger, Gimp)
1.0.0 Veiled Chameleon (Lucutis)
0.0.1 Quince Monitor (Pollux)
1.2.0 Thayeri Kingsnakes (Korben, Leeloo, Artax)
2.2.0 California Kingsnakes (Beetlejuice, Kang, Maraca, Kodos)
1.1.0 Bullsnakes (Hawker, Socata)

It's a California Kingsnake.
There's four other eggs that also should start pipping any minute now.

I was a little worried about that egg - it really started to cave in about 2 weeks ago, and nothing I did made it pop back - to see it pip was a big relief.
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3.3 L. getula californiae
1.0 L. getula nigrita
1.0 Boa constrictor constrictor (suriname, fostering/rescue)
2.1.2 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata

How long ago were the eggs laid? Talk about a late season hatch! Congrats!

reako45

Copulation took place on August 8th.
Eggs laid on September 28th.

Yes - a very late season clutch.

Male - WC (Antioch, East Contra Costa County, CA locale) normal banded.
Female - CB Albino banded.

I'll try to get good pics of the parents later.

She laid 12 eggs. 7 died due to my mistake. I tried to use coconut fiber which worked well for my alligator lizard eggs. One went bad, I wasn't too alarmed. Then others started to go bad - I checked, the coconut fiber was way way way too wet - I immediately got some virmiculite and did 1:1 by weight - and the eggs stopped going bad. But it was too late for 7 of them.

So no more using coconut fiber for me.
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3.3 L. getula californiae
1.0 L. getula nigrita
1.0 Boa constrictor constrictor (suriname, fostering/rescue)
2.1.2 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata

Congrats on the survivore and file that as experience. It is well that you shared the c-nut fiber thing, the more info the better.
Todd Hughes

One of the many, many reason I love it there!!!

Congrats on the clutch - some are always better than none!
Is the sire to this clutch the really cool looking one?? If I remember right, he had a really nice sort of banded pattern, and he was sort of thin when you got him back.....

Let us know how things pan out.

byron.d

Here's the father (taken today):

Here's the mother (taken about 2 months ago)

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The thin interesting patterned king I have that I think you are talking about is a young ~ 26 inch female.

Other than the eggs - she's my only king I'm not brumating at the moment - turned out she had a hookworm. It's been treated, but vet wants another two fecal floats. I'm keeping her warm and trying to feed her, but she knows its time to shut down and has stopped eating - so I might have to cool her and tell the vet he has to wait for spring for the fecal floats.
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3.3 L. getula californiae
1.0 L. getula nigrita
1.0 Boa constrictor constrictor (suriname, fostering/rescue)
2.1.2 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata

WoW! Congrats! It's pretty late in the year to be hatching Cal Kings isn't it?
-Phil

Yes - very late. The parents have already gone down for brumation.
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3.3 L. getula californiae
1.0 L. getula nigrita
1.0 Boa constrictor constrictor (suriname, fostering/rescue)
2.1.2 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata

Gonna have to add 5 new neonate Kings to the animals in your signiature list. Definitely keep us posted on their development, esp. the ease or difficulty w/ which you get them to eat. I've heard baby Cals can be a bit peculiar in their eating habits.

reako45

She (I'm guessing she but haven't even touched her yet) is out:

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None of the other four eggs have not pipped yet.
They are a different sterilite - same incubator, but a little farther from the heating element.
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3.3 L. getula californiae
1.0 L. getula nigrita
1.0 Boa constrictor constrictor (suriname, fostering/rescue)
2.1.2 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata

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Slipstream Serpents

My Reptile Family:
1.1.0 Leopard Geckos (Booger, Gimp)
1.0.0 Veiled Chameleon (Lucutis)
0.0.1 Quince Monitor (Pollux)
1.2.0 Thayeri Kingsnakes (Korben, Leeloo, Artax)
2.2.0 California Kingsnakes (Beetlejuice, Kang, Maraca, Kodos)
1.1.0 Bullsnakes (Hawker, Socata)

Two more have pipped - two still need to pip.
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3.3 L. getula californiae
1.0 L. getula nigrita
1.0 Boa constrictor constrictor (suriname, fostering/rescue)
2.1.2 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata