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My kings started mating this weekend; my anery has hooked up with a white sided and hypo a few times. What I have read suggest like 5 weeks or so until egg laying (plus/minus a week)...which puts me squarely in my trip to Houston. It'll only be 3 days...if they lay while I'm gone what are my odds of hte eggs still being viable when I get back? I can't cancle, this is partly in preperation for my brother's wedding so it's a big family thing.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

As long as you make darn sure the laybox has a big quantity of very moist sphagnum moss in it for those three days you'll be gone, the eggs should be okay. But I would confine the female in this lay box just in case she has ideas of laying them elsewhere where it is drier. I sometimes make half their entire enclosure a big sphagnum lay box for my bigger snakes. But in your case I would make her stay in the moist medium while you are gone.

But!,...unfortunately you have to hope she won't get hungry and eat them within that time. Either that, or get someone to checkup on her and take them away,....... or just her away even better yet as long as they are covered good.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -Serpentine Specialties

Good point Doug! Forgot all about them being eaten.
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Jimmy Tintle

Yeah Jimmy, after not eating for a long time and all that effort laying eggs, afterwards when they are very thin and hungry is a bad time to have a big potential meal of eggs lying right next to them for several days..LOL!

I have even heard of some getula females eating their own eggs one by one as they were laid!..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -Serpentine Specialties

"I have even heard of some getula females eating their own eggs one by one as they were laid!..LOL! "

Now that's some crazy stuff, I remember last year I think on this forum a guy had pics of his Cal king eaten her own eggs...I'll have to search for the link.

I wonder if you can breed for that trait and sell them to the "Snake Cullers"??? Lol!
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Jimmy Tintle

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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -Serpentine Specialties

Now that's funny S#$t right there, I don't care who you are!!!
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Jimmy Tintle

Man, I was giggling my a$$ off typing it up too!...HAHAA!!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -Serpentine Specialties

n/p

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BigT
There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. The ignorant can be taught, stupidity is beyond our control.
1.2 P. m. melanoleucus B/W N. J. Northern Pines
1.2 P. d. deppei Mexican Pines
2.2 P. l. lineaticollis Linis or Lined Pines
1.2 P. m. lodingi Black Pines
0.3 P. c. sayi red bulls
1.1 Drymarchon melenurus Blacktail Cribo
1.2 D. corais Yellowtail Cribos
1.2 M. s. cheynei Jungle Carpet
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1.1 L. g. californiae B/W Cali kings
0.0.3 M. f. flagellum Eastern Coachwhips
1.2 G. m. bottegoi Western Plated lizards

lol,lol

Heh! Just go out on the back roads during the warm season and collect road kills and put them in your cages; pre-culled!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

that's at least semi-comforting It's just a timing thing you know? Oh well. Maybe I'll get lucky and they'll get laid the a day or two early.

I'll try to get one last meal in her; she ate Friday evening...I'll try to get another chick or rat in her this week sometime. Get her what I can. And maybe some small mice if I can later on too.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

Yeah, just make sure that just prior to leaving that she is confined in a suitable-sized container of nice moist sphagnum and hope things go okay.

Yeah, a good scenario would be she lays just before you leave..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -Serpentine Specialties

np
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Jimmy Tintle

That of course would be "good scenario" #2..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -Serpentine Specialties

As long as she lays them in the nesting box and not in the dry substrate, you should be OK. Even if she does lay them in a dry area, they have good chance of surviving. I had a female lay last year under the water bowl, it was her second clutch and I never put a male back in with her after the first so it was totally unexpected. They were there atleast 2 or 3 days and they all hathed fine. It took a couple of days in the incubation substrate to plump up and did fine.
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Jimmy Tintle

Find someone you trust with your animals, who is experienced and who lives nearby and ask them to stop by once every day or two while you're gone to check on things. I've done this for a friend of mine before who lives right down the road. He was gone for a week last summer and I took care of his snakes, checked for eggs and set up all the ones that hatched while he was gone.
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How much of a hassle would it be to just put her in a suitable traveling container and take her with you?
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

eeer...on a plane. Plus no incubator at destination.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa