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After two Northern clutches failed to hatch, finally some Pit babies!!

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Lloyd Heilbrunn

Palm Beach Gardens, Fl.

Congats Sir!

Nice chunky little affinis you got there my friend

RGDS......AL

Must be a bad year for northerns, my clutch failed too. Nice looking sono's though Lloyd. Best of luck and take care.

Jeremy
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Jeremy Pierce
Shade Tree Exotics
shade-tree-exotics@att.net

One clutch looked fertile at first but never developed.The other had half infertile right away,and about 6 fully developed and dead just before they were due.

I thought it might be my Fla weather and artifical cooling but you are too far north for that,so I need to look for other possible causes too.
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Lloyd Heilbrunn

Palm Beach Gardens, Fl.

One year I had trouble with several clutches that had fully developed babies dead in the eggs. After I was done being upset I realized that every clutch that did poorly was more wet than the others. This particular year I used perilite instead vermiculite so I think I went overboard on the water just because I wasn't used to the perilite method. Since then I have went pack to vermiculite and have only had one dead in the egg since. It too was also the lowest egg in the most moist condition. I'm leaning more towards not dry, but definately not saturated. Just my two cents. Best of luck to you sir!

Jeremy
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Jeremy Pierce
Shade Tree Exotics
shade-tree-exotics@att.net

sorry to hear about the northern clutches, but congrats on the sonorans!

daveb
Dave's Pituophis

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in the light, you will find the road...

Thankd guys.
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Lloyd Heilbrunn

Palm Beach Gardens, Fl.