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I hatched this female in 1993 from parents hatched in 1988.

In a sense this is an unsuccessful clutch, with only 9 fertile eggs out of 23 laid 3/6/08. On the other hand, she is my favorite blood python and has produced some gorgeous babies in the past. Oh well, there's always next year. Maybe. With bloods you never know.

That's a beautiful looking blood python!
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she is beautiful!

if it makes you feel any better, i had a big albino lay 22 eggs in 06' and only 4 or 5 were fertile. out of those, 3 hatched...

and yes, there is always that saying about next year!
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I don't have bloods "yet" but I gotta ask............Is that typical to have so many infertile eggs in a clutch? Must be pretty dissapointing.

Quig

more often than you would think with all python species. Good example, I had a Sri Lanka python, Python molurus "pimbura", that dropped 21 eggs last year and only 9 were fertile and hatched. Numerous reasons why this can happen.

Kelly

Thanks Kelly. It just sounded extreme.

Quig

Great looking female, nice that you've had her for such a long time also. Getting eggs from animals that you have produced yourself, Congrats. on that!Good luck with the viable ones.

Hey stranger, good to hear you are still keeping up with the bloods. Very pretty girl. Hope all goes well.
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Was the one hatched in 1988 from Tom Weidner by any chance?
Paul Edwards

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement.

Bigcountry - yes, thanks, misery does love company.

Quig - Compared to, say, ball pythons, I think infertile eggs are far more common with blood pythons. However, I can't recall reading a good species-specific discussion of this issue. Has anyone here seen such? I hadn't gotten any eggs at all from this female in a long time and I altered more than one variable this breeding season, so I can't say for sure which (if any) did the trick. I cut off food earlier, managed to get the temperature down in the room she was in (it is often very warm in the winter), and reduced her weight over the past couple of years by about 5 pounds. It'll be interesting to see what happens next year.

Paul - No, both the mother and father of this 1993 female were produced in 1988 by David Lawrence.

-Joan