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On December the 1st, I posted a little blurb about the "Pre-ovulation Swell" which I first noticed about fifteen years ago. I wrote a lengthy description about this occurrence which can be read and seen if you like at the following link:

Pre-ovulation Swell

I also posted a link to a video showing what the "Pre-ovulation Swell" looks like. At least what it looked like in one large Monster Tail Hypo female that was in the "thick of it" on that date.

Click here to view the Pre-Ovulation Swell video

Here are a couple pictures of that female in the "Pre-ovulation Swell".

I had predicted that she would have that ovulation within two weeks from that Date. Then on December 3rd I noticed that she was definitely in shed. She was really dark and her eyes were clouding over. "Bummer", is exactly what I thought after seeing that happen. You see, that normally means that the ovulation will not occur for some time. Usually around six weeks later between that coming shed and the next one. They almost never ovulate while opaque. I have actually only seen that happen one time before, but happen again it did! I guess I don't mind too much... LOL She is really massive now moving about in slow motion as they do when ovulating with a gigantic mass that I love to see. This is great since shortly I can move this little male Motley onto another female to try to do it all over again.

I thought I would post a couple more pictures along with additional video to illustrate what has happened here in the past few days. Here is a picture of the very opaque ovulating Monster Tail Hypo:

Here is a close up shot of her head clearly showing that she is in fact fully opaque:

Click here to view the Monster Tail Hypo Ovulation video

Oh and just for fun... here is another video showing a male Pearlescent Boa all stretched out wondering what to do with that big female he is rooming with...

Click here for the Pearlescent Video

Am I having fun yet???

And for anyone that is really bored... Boa guys up North have other things to do that you kids that live in the tropics do not... Got any snow lately?

Click here to see what we Frozen Tundra Dwellers have to do... Click at your own risk.
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after one of those huge meals...

How am I EVER going to digest it all????

Thanks Jeff and feel free to dump all your knowledge on us (me) ANYTIME!!!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Dave so he can get that Reeses

Yeah, while I'm laying there on the heat trying to digest all those videos!!! He's gonna sneak in and snatch him up, or maybe just trigger that electronic door opener again so Reeses can get out on his own.

LOL, talk about whan bam thank you ma'am, Candy is gravid and Reeses is breaking out of a locked cage to move on to the next conquest. I never knew snakes were such dawgs!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

glad to see he is putting in some work for you this year. Craig

The Motley is a Craig Kade produced mad man!
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A motley that nice I am sure everyone already assumed that lol. Thanks Jeff. Craig

And it came from that Brad cant breed Boa guys nor female lol Thanks again Craig But hopefully with those black cages from the Boa god I will get some babies!!!!

best of luck to you Brad
Bob

Jeff:

You said that ovulation while blue was something you'd only seen once before-- what was the result of that breeding? ie Were the babies all live and normal (or whatever your usual ratio is?)?

Loved the John Deere footage. I'm looking forward to leaving MD for northern VT for Winter Solstice, and digging a pathway out of the snow they got up there...I have to do it the old fashioned way though---by hand and shovel.

Thanks again for the info and the laughs,
Antigone

The result was nothing. She had an ovulation for certain. I know what an ovulation is and she definitely ovulated but did not have any babies or slugs. Nothing. She looked to be gravid for several months but never had anything. She bred the next season and produced a perfect litter with zero slugs. Go figure.

I just hope that does not happen this time too. Time will tell...
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>>The result was nothing. She had an ovulation for certain. I know what an ovulation is and she definitely ovulated but did not have any babies or slugs. Nothing. She looked to be gravid for several months but never had anything. She bred the next season and produced a perfect litter with zero slugs. Go figure.
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>>I just hope that does not happen this time too. Time will tell...
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That's pretty curious to me. Have you experienced this before?

It's been my understanding, and experience, that would be called re-absorption of the ovum, and it happens before ovulation occurs. After ovulation, either babies or slugs occur. I've had several females in my 30 years of keeping go through this, with the males in the same room, but never introduced.

I'm all confused now. That just goes against all I've been told, taught, or witnessed about Boa Constrictor reproductive system. Do you have any speculation, about this? I'd seriously like to know your thoughts on the subject.

Thanks!
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