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I bred two pairs of thayeri for the first time this year. Introduction was in mid April, and both females laid a clutch of mostly slugs in early June (one egg between the two clutches that looked normal, but subsequently went bad). The females were not reintroduced to the males, and both fed well until a couple of weeks ago, when they went off feeding again. Neither one looked particularly gravid. Didn't think much of it, but then this weekend I opened one's cage to find a whole clutch of 8 eggs drowned in the water bowl (and sadly, they didn't look like slugs). So I palpated the other one, and she feels like she has eggs also! I've given her a nest box.
Is this a common thing with thayeri? I know that colubrids can retain sperm, but haven't heard of it leading to two clutches in the same season.
Thanks for any insight.
-Lee

I have not had it happen with my thayeri, but with my mexi blacks, but out of 10 eggs only 1 was viable.
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this is kinda off topic, but i've had multiple female corns double clutch with good eggs without being re-introduced to a male. Caught me off guard my first year breeding a little while back, but i know what to look for now
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Just a suggestion as far as the water dish thing...the first year I bred Cal kings I left the water dish in, and she laid all of them in it. Now I only give a gravid female water for just a couple hours a day, and have never had the same problem since.
Ken