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Fresh hatched prasina, coxi and trans-pecos laying eggs.

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Randy Whittington

All awesome, Randy! I especially like the prasina...
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Very nice. I really like the coxi!
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Kent

1.1 Hypo (het lavender, striped) corn snakes, 2010
1.2 Gray-banded king snakes, blairs phase, 2008
0.0.10 Gray-banded king snakes, 2011
1.1 Oregon rubber boas, w/c 2000 and something

Colossians 3:17

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Randy Whittington

I've never seen those green ones before; do you have more info on them? They look...shiny!
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.

They are elaphe prasina or green bush ratsnakes. They are found in several countries in southern asia and grow to about 4ft.

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Randy Whittington

Randy those bamboo rats are beautiful!
I just picked up two females that have entered breeding age. Am on the hunt for a male to pair them with.
I've been using cooler chests with aquarium heaters submerged in a couple inches of water as incubators which over the years has worked well for me until this year. This year they are giving me fits. You obviously are getting good results with what you are using to incubate. So may I ask what you are working with???
Thanks, Mike.

I incubate eggs, ratsnakes and all other species the same way. I put the eggs in shoe boxes with moist pearlite as incubation material. I place the shoe boxes in one of my snake rooms on the top of tall racks that houses adults. The average room temp is 75 but in the summer the space on the top of the high racks is about 77 degrees due to the heat tape under one end of all the adult drawers.
I used to incubate with a similar setup as you but using large aquariums. I found that the way I do it now is much simpler. I don't have to worry about checking the temps all the time in the incubators and it's just a much simpler way.
They might go a few more days before hatching than when I kept them a little warmer in incubators but if anything they hatch out larger and more robust at the temps and way I do it now.
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Randy Whittington

A few more days? I may take you up on xmas hatchlings.

Mike

Good job, Randy...
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