The Suriname boa that fooled me last year (acted gravid but was not) gave birth on Thursday, which was exactly her due date.
There were 22 slugs, and 9 fully formed young. Of those, 7 were born live, two were stillborn. Two of the live young died during their first night. All had large yolks, so they were probably born a bit prematurely even though it was 105 days POS.
Here are photos of the remaining 5 - the last two are twins of some sort (both of their umbilicals were connected to the same yolk and they were in the same birth sack, but they do not look identical). I have not sexed them yet, especially because one of the twins is very small and seems frail.
Here they are, first real photoshoot at 2 days old. I'm just so glad that there were some babies that survived, and the parents are now proven, though of course I would rather have had 31 live babies (the parents were together from late November until March, until 3 weeks after what turned out to be the female's post ovulation shed) and are 2003s originally from Ben Siegel.
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FS08_2
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FS08_4 (twin 1)
FS08_5 (twin 2)
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Lauren Madar - OphidiaGems.com | CageMakers | lauren at liquidleaf dot com |
2.2 BP, 1.0 Hog Is., 1.1 Hypo BCI, 1.1 Surinam BCC, 1.1 Saharan Sand Boas
Getting lively!