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...this amel s. pine was getting me concerned when she just wouldn't settle in to lay..
Well, overnight she did lay 3 very large eggs afterall.
I can't get over the size of these eggs since I'm so used to those "other" colubrids
Now the fun begins!
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!
someone had posted a reply to some eggs posted here earlier this year, making the comment that it looked like knockwurst, hahaha. congratulations on the addition to your incubator.
I'd be interested to hear what your plan is to incubate the pine eggs. This year, either I wrote down the wrong dates on my incubation boxes or this was a reaaaaaaaaaalllllly long incubation for my pine eggs ( 82 days.....).
great stuff as always.
daveb
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in the light, you will find the road...
What is your "normal" time line? I haven't had s.pine eggs in years here...
They'll be with the rest in their boxes..
tick...tock...tick...tock....
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!
I incubate ruthveni eggs in a tub of sphagnum at 79 degrees, it usually takes 70-76 days. Other guys I talk to get it done in 65-70 days. those tubes are as big or bigger than any ruthveni eggs, so they should fit somewhere in that range. As you know I am looking for mugitus, I have never had the pleasure of breeding them so my experience is limited to this dot...
Joanna Burger wrote a paper in the late 80's or early 90's that discussed differential survivorship of p.m. melanoleucus embryos at varying temps. I believe that she theorized that there was lower female survivorship at higher temperatures, hence my temp choice and probably longer time frame. Terry Vandeventer posted here last year, he feels that there is some effect of temperatures on sex determination in the Louisiana pines and consistently incubates at a certain temperature -somewhere in the 70's I think.
fun fun fun!
daveb
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in the light, you will find the road...
Allright!!
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Lloyd Heilbrunn
Palm Beach Gardens, Fl.
Thanks Lloyd. See ya in a few weeks?
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!
Great to see some southern pines. Those eggs are huge!!
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Dennis McNamara
Crazy Fools Reptiles
Desnakemon@cox.net
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