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Just need to know average egg clutch size of Red tailed green rat snakes. And also, is it necessary to cycle them to breed them. Third question is, will most neonates take rodents without any scenting or other procedures.

All of my Indonesian clutches have been between three and five eggs. The only exception to this was a female who laid single fertile eggs about once a month over a few month span. She was with a male in January and produced two clutches of three eggs from this mating and then proceeded to lay one fertile egg a month until about August without being paired back up.

You didn't ask this specifically, but I had one female lay 15 fertile eggs in a year.

I have had them breed with and without cycling and currently don't cycle them. In fact the female who dropped the 15 eggs was never cycled.

I have kept three locales of G. oxycephalum and two types of G. janseni in rooms where the temperatures dropped into the 60's at night and have had no respiratory problems with them so they can handle being cycled. The only time I have seen Gonyosoma copulating was when it was in the low 60's in their cages. But I'm no longer convinced it's necessary.

Babies of the Indonesian locale are easy to get started on rodents. I've never had a problem.

I know of one breeder who has had trouble getting the Malaysian locale started but another breeder indicates if they are started on small fuzzies they eat readily.