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this pair bred twice late March (28th and 30th), the female swelled up a good bit, took a couple meals small meals after breeding, shed on the 15th.. which threw me off a little bit as I wasn't expecting her to shed for at least another 2 weeks. After that she was moving everywhere all over the cage for a day, so I put a egg laying box in with her just in case. When I checked on her today I found a skinny female and 9 eggs.
Think they're good?

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Congrats....They look good to me.....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Wow, she laid them fast. Are they normal size?
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Yeah they're average size, no runt eggs and none look bad. My one book that I recently got said typical gestation time for cali kings is 42-63 days. So the mosaic female was early compared to that, Mother Nature showed me what she thought about that book.
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They definitely appear good to me! Congrats.

Dennis

Mike, Congrats! they look good to me. They for sure throw you off sometimes. I have 6 females this year that never went through a preovulation shed or a post brumation shed and they are in the blue right now, gravid. My Cal king bred on March 30 and April 6, and is now in the blue, so should have some eggs in about ten to 14 days. Good luck with the clutch.
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an albino mosaic cali king?

I can't remember ever seeing one, I do recall someone in NY working on the project years ago though.
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>>an albino mosaic cali king?
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>>I can't remember ever seeing one, I do recall someone in NY working on the project years ago though.
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I've seen lavender mosaics but never an a melanistic mosaic...

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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

Mike, I'm hoping you bred her to a different genotype male last year: that would enable you to determine from the babies' phenotypes whether these eggs were fertilized by the male only two weeks prior to deposition, or whether they were fertilized by sperm retention from last year. That's a possibility worth considering.

Very true... I completely overlooked that. I don't even know what she was bred to last season I just got her this year after she came out of brumation. My guess was she laid eggs so fast because the first time they bred she was already ovulating for at least a couple days. I had the female for probably a month before the male came out of brumation here.
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