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man these things are huge, i had a hovibator all set up and when she laid them i didn't get to them soon enough to seperate them! They ended up being 4" tall and won't fit in it, doh. i had to make a quick fridge incubator and have yet to have the temps stabilize its a good thing my house stays at 80 degrees for at least the next couple of days till i can make sure things level out.
nate

those eggs will do well at temps in the mid to upper 70's (76-79), so you don't have to worry too much about adding extra heat. i usually pack them very snug in long fiber sphagnum moss (soaked and wrung out well) and they do very well.
good luck!
daveb

Good luck with the eggs,
I'm waiting for me female to lay.

Gai.
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1.3 Northern pine
1.1 N.J White pine
2.5 Black pine
1.2 Louisiana Pine
1.0 snow Southern Pine
1.1 Albino Sonoran Gopher
2.1 W.C. Sonoran Gopher
1.1 San Diego Gophers (het albino applegate)
1.1 San Diego Gophers Stripe (het Albino)
0.1 Pacific Gopher Albino Stripe
1.1 Red Bull Snake
0.2 kankakee Bull Snake
1.0 Eastern Bull snake
2.2 Leucistic Texas ratsnake
1.1 "White Oak" ratsnake
2.3 W.C Okeetee Corn
1.2 Abbt line Okeetee Corn
1.0 Reverse Okeetee Corn
0.1 Creamsicle Corn
1.2 W.C Miami Phase Corn
1.1 Sinaloan Milk
1.0 Albino Honduran Milk
1.1 Anery Honduran Milk
0.1 tri color Honduran Milk
1.1 W.C Mexican Black King
0.2 C.B Mexican Black King
2.0 W.C Cal King
1.1 C.B Cal King
0.1 Durango Mountain King
1.0 Desert King
1.1 Sonoran Lyre Snake
2.2 Bearded Dragon
1.1 Albino gecko
4 Tanks full with African Cichlids.
Many Mice, Rats and feeder Roaches

Ive got the incubator at 76 to 79 with 90% humidty does that sound right? The eggs are on 1" of perilite with spagnum covering them. Now i have to get ac for my room, oh well.
nate

Whats a good size for the females to first breed at? Mine is pushing 3 ft now. Thanks.

mine put out 9 going in at 58" and 1300g's from what i hear about pines its a good idea not to breed them till three years but i could be wrong. heres my incubator/brumation chamber i hope it works. it was kinda makeshift as i was planing to use the hovibator.
nate

you should wait until the are at least5.5ft long with good body weight

Great, thanks. At the rate she is growing it wont be long!!

Hi Nate,
One of my female black pines laid five good eggs about two weeks ago. I have another female that is in the egg laying box now.
My eggs are huge as well. These are the first black pine eggs that I have had and I'm pretty excited about hatching out babies.
Good luck with your eggs.
Where did you get your adults?
Brad Bauserman

I picked mine up from a guy in vancuver wa, he bread them last year and got 4 eggs and a slug without a full brumation "turned the heat down in the snake room i think" I put mine down for three months at 50-55 degrees and then fed the female every five days till she refused a meal,medium rats that barely left a bulg and every third feeding a small chick from the local feed store she was at 1300g's before laying. As much as i love my male and his obvious fertility hes not the blackest around. I'm kinda waflling around the idea of picking up another male from blacker lines. But I also am picking up a cbb spilotes and hopefully have 9 baby blacks so i might have to hold off till a little later
nate