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Marrying my wife Nicci and the birth of my kids top this, but not much else. I have been really hammering on this projecet for a long time and it is so good to see my first Southern (Black) White-lip eggs! This is the ideal species to challenge yourself with. They are rarely bred and when they are, it is usually a luck thing and the breeders have not been able to offer much assistance.

My prior experience with Gold WLPs and Water pythons totally misled me on what to expect. These Blacks lay gigantic eggs! They are way bigger than a ball python egg! I could talk about these all day, but here are some pics to say the rest.

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Matt & Nicci Turner
www.selectiveorigins.com

That is really awesome, best of luck with this project
Tom Stevens
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TomsSnakes.com

Congrats man!!! I have been waiting to see this for a while....I'm glad others are still working with some of these amazing snakes!!! I am waiting on fuscus eggs in a few days(4 years in a row)!!! They also lay pretty large eggs, bigger than balls anyway. How old and what size are your adults?? Put me on the list for a pair, keepin my fingers crossed for ya!!! HOw was she takin her eggs away?? How many?? AAHHHHHH, too many ?'s!!!
Jasin

Yes- congratulations are in order!!!

Beauty of a WL!

//Todd

Fuscus eggs in a few days Todd..........how many ya think this year.....any bets??? How are yours doing???

Yeah, I noticed that!

I have no idea man, but that's great news!

This pair of fuscus I got from you are quickly becoming my favorite! These guys are AWESOME!

Take some pics and post!

//Todd

Matt,

That's a great achievement!
Please keep us posted on the clutch.

Sincerely,
Gary Schiavino

Pretty much UNREAL sums it up for me. There is a lot of 'talk' about people breeding this species, but in 15 years this is the FIRST legitimate CBB clutch I've ever seen (maybe I need to get out more?!). I wish you all the best with those eggs!!!

Matt

I agree Matt. All these "true CBB" babies floating around lately, you would think if someone actualy breed them in the US, as rare as it is, they would be showin it off and jumpin for joy!!! I would be!!!
I hate to sound negative about some of these others with CBB babies for sale recently, but I contacted one guy and he said he could not reveal the persons name who breed them??? OK???? IMPORTS, or farm bred is not CBB, lol!! If the breeders have put in that much work, why would they not want people to know they produced them??

Congrats , is this species large ?and can they be kept like balls? Great job and good breeding , you might want to keep notes on what you did to finally produce them.

HOW MANY EGGS?????!!!!!!!! DETAILS MAN, DETAILS, LOL!!!

The female is my smallest girl, only being about 7 feet long and this is her first clutch. She laid 5 huge eggs measuring (averages) 9.5 cm in length, 14 cm in diameter, and 126 grams in weight. One of the eggs appears to be a shelled slug, but the other 4 are veined nicely.

On another note of good news, I was just out feeding the pythons and my big girl (a 9 footer) has refused food twice now and I caught her inverted basking. She won't let me palpate her, unfortunately.
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Matt & Nicci Turner
www.selectiveorigins.com

If she is laying inverted, I would assume she is close to laying??? My Fuscus always do this about 2 -3 weeks prior to laying. That would be sweet if you got 2 clutches!!! Are they all unrelated??

Outstanding Matt. Do you maintain your blacks any differently than you do your golds?

These are pics of my partially successful gold clutch last year.

-Rolf

I think that may be the nicest one I have ever seen. That is truly incredible Tom Stevens
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