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Pure Sri Lanka clutch.....

Kelly_Haller Jul 05, 2007 06:51 PM

This first time female came through great earlier this week. She is 5 years of age this month and about 11 feet. I couldn’t get an exact count of the number, but all of the eggs I saw looked full size and nice color. I have always firmly believed in maternal incubation with any molurus subsp., and this will give a rare opportunity to collect some valuable data on this rarest of the group. The eggs were actually slightly larger than average burmese I have measured, and were about 4.25 by 2.5 inches. Environmental conditions today showed the relative humidity at 90%, air temp at 85 degrees F, the nesting substrate at 87, and the intra-coil temp of the female at 91.5. Female was showing a contraction rate of 8 to 12 per minute. The intra-coil temp was just slightly lower than that I have seen as an average for incubating burmese. It will also be interesting to see if the incubation period matches the 56 days, plus or minus 1 day, as is always seen with maternally incubating burmese.

Kelly

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phflame Jul 05, 2007 08:12 PM

How is she taking the messing around with her to get the temperatures? Are mother snakes protective of their eggs if you leave them with them? Congrats on the eggs and hope that all of them hatch!
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Kelly_Haller Jul 06, 2007 11:42 PM

She is quite protective of the eggs and will hiss and move the front portion of her body toward you. It's a little tricky, but by moving very slowly, and can take coil temps without to much trouble. Thanks,

Kelly

TimS Jul 05, 2007 11:53 PM

awesome thta is one species i would still love to get

zach_whitman Jul 07, 2007 11:38 PM

Beautiful snakes man.

Congrats on the clutch and good luck with it.

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