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A second gravid YT rests in her egg-laying tub on slightly moist cypress mulch. This girl produced a great clutch for me in 2007. She had her pre-lay shed on 12/21, so her eggs should arrive in about a week.

To avoid washing out her colors I took this photo without flash, using only the nearby overhead flourescent room lights.

Happy New Year everyone!

Brian

Brian, she is exceptional!
I can't wait to see what kind of offspring she produces.

Wishing you the best of luck with your eggs and future hatchlings!
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Roy Blodgett
Green Man Herpetoculture
royreptile@yahoo.com

1.1 Spilotes pullatus
2.2 Pseustes sulphureus
1.1 Pseustes poecilonotus poecilonotus
1.1 Lystrophis pulcher
1.1 Boiga dendrophila dendrophila
1.2 Crotaphytus collaris
1.3 Crotaphytus bicinctores
2.3 Pogona vitticeps (snow and red/gold)
1.0 Iguana iguana

Thanks Roy. Yep, she's a sweetie!

After posting the first photo I realized that it was a bit out of focus. Here's a similar shot, but a little less fuzzy up front.

Brian

Wow, great looking animal! best of luck reproducing this look! we all need more of such nice YT!

Regards
Jörn
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www.snakeline.net

Man thats a YELLOW snake. What a beauty of a snake, this is a different bloodline than the litter you posted about the other day? Dan

No, they're sisters. The other one is not too shabby either, just not quite as yellow.

Brian

geez brian, your yt's make mine look like dogs! i like how she kept the banding on her. i think that style is baad. is she a cb?

Hey Dan,

The banding is one of my favorite things as well. She is CB from a line that started with a CB Chuck Elliott male bred to an amazingly mellow and very colorful WC female.

Attached is a photo of her I posted two years ago when she was gravid with her first clutch. The banding was present then, although perhaps not as prominent as now and not captured as well in this 2007 photo. She also seems to have gotten a bit lighter overall with age (like fine wine, eh?). She is a 2002 animal, and was four years old when first bred.

Brian

Sorry, try again with the 2007 photo.

Brian, congratulations on one clutch of eggs with another due soon. Would you please describe how you've set up eggs for incubation? Thanks.

Hi Steve,

I set up my Dry and Spilotes eggs as shown in the photo below. I use a plastic sweater box with a small hole near each end of each side (total 4 holes) to allow for air exchange. I actually have more holes in the sweater box, but taped over the others as I fine tuned the balance between humidity and evaporation to get the desired moisture level.

Agricultural grade Vermiculite is used as a hatching medium, and is mixed with water by feel to what I would call a medium level of moisture. The hatching medium is not as moist as I use for most python eggs, but more moist than for bull and pine snake eggs. Be careful to avoid construction grade Vermiculite or Vermiculite that has fertilizer added to it. The additional ingredients in those products may prove harmful to your eggs. I tried Perlite once, but wasn't happy with the results and stopped using it.

The egg container is placed at the front edge of an unoccupied shelf in one of my adult ball python racks. I determine the proper shelf to use and desired temperature range (75 to 78 degrees by shooting each shelf with a temp gun. In my rooms it usually it works out to be the third shelf off the floor.

The eggs are usually good to go at that point, but I will check at least once a week throughout the incubation period to make sure the proper moisture level and temperature range are maintained.

Hope this helps.

Brian

Dear Lord Brian! That's the nicest corais corais I have ever seen!
I'm looking forward to an eventful summer!
All the best,
Ryan