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Philodryas viridissimus LAYS 11:

This is a species in the same family with baroni (Barrons racer) however viridissimus is from Surinam and I posted below earlier about finding her finally gravid. I am not sure but have yet to find anyone else who bred of even keeps this beautiful species.

Came home from an all nighter at the shop (thinking also about the viridissimus) at 5 AM and peeked into her hide cave and 3 were out and by 7 AM the rest were out.

One of the first few top eggs was sticking to the top of the ceramic cave and I was sweating that a bit so thought to not allow it to dry and have to incubate the entire cave piece. I lifted it slowly and the entire group of eggs raised a tad and the egg let off thankfully as either the eggs were going to give or my heart would. The egg that stuck can be viewed in the group with the odd spot/patch on it at the highest egg.

After she had them all, she tried to hug the eggs like a python and was curling them and I had to slowly move her off. After she was off, started the open-mouth thing at me which is something not often seen with these. All of the eggs look great so I can consider myself very lucky and can now go crash. And she is presently seeking a a meal which I will give her tomorrow.

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>>This is a species in the same family with baroni (Barrons racer) however viridissimus is from Surinam and I posted below earlier about finding her finally gravid. I am not sure but have yet to find anyone else who bred of even keeps this beautiful species.
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>>Came home from an all nighter at the shop (thinking also about the viridissimus) at 5 AM and peeked into her hide cave and 3 were out and by 7 AM the rest were out.
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>>One of the first few top eggs was sticking to the top of the ceramic cave and I was sweating that a bit so thought to not allow it to dry and have to incubate the entire cave piece. I lifted it slowly and the entire group of eggs raised a tad and the egg let off thankfully as either the eggs were going to give or my heart would. The egg that stuck can be viewed in the group with the odd spot/patch on it at the highest egg.
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>>After she had them all, she tried to hug the eggs like a python and was curling them and I had to slowly move her off. After she was off, started the open-mouth thing at me which is something not often seen with these. All of the eggs look great so I can consider myself very lucky and can now go crash. And she is presently seeking a a meal which I will give her tomorrow.
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Big congrats! Great looking snake and eggs - best of luck with the incubation.

The Asian Beauty Snakes also coil tightly around their clutches. Some folks think this may mean that they stay with the eggs throughout incubation. To my knowledge though, nobody has tried this out and left them with the mother.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Very, very cool Dan. Always fabulous to see obsucre snakes make their mark in such a fashion!

Bill

Mike Humphrey wrote an article for Reptiles Magazine (Sept 2000) about Blue Beauties where he successfully let the clutch be maternally incubated.

>>Mike Humphrey wrote an article for Reptiles Magazine (Sept 2000) about Blue Beauties where he successfully let the clutch be maternally incubated.

Great! Thanks for the info - I will hunt down a copy.
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Oxyrhopus IS the man!!!
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

Congratulations, again...

That looks like an interesting species, along with baroni. Would like to pick your brain sometime for some characteristics of those snakes.

Regards...TC

>>Philodryas viridissimus LAYS 11:
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>>This is a species in the same family with baroni (Barrons racer) however viridissimus is from Surinam and I posted below earlier about finding her finally gravid. I am not sure but have yet to find anyone else who bred of even keeps this beautiful species.
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>>Came home from an all nighter at the shop (thinking also about the viridissimus) at 5 AM and peeked into her hide cave and 3 were out and by 7 AM the rest were out.
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>>One of the first few top eggs was sticking to the top of the ceramic cave and I was sweating that a bit so thought to not allow it to dry and have to incubate the entire cave piece. I lifted it slowly and the entire group of eggs raised a tad and the egg let off thankfully as either the eggs were going to give or my heart would. The egg that stuck can be viewed in the group with the odd spot/patch on it at the highest egg.
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>>After she had them all, she tried to hug the eggs like a python and was curling them and I had to slowly move her off. After she was off, started the open-mouth thing at me which is something not often seen with these. All of the eggs look great so I can consider myself very lucky and can now go crash. And she is presently seeking a a meal which I will give her tomorrow.
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Not to take any thunder away from your post, but this snake can be found all throughout South America (almost every country actually). From photos I have seen from friends and other literature, I would say this is possibly the world's "greenest" snake. Very pretty, and from people I know who have come across them, can be quite fiesty. I am sure it is fun to work with, and the bite is certainly worth avoiding.

I presume from your post you imported this individual from Surinam.

Holy crap congrats and the mother looks amazing! Baby pics?