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Day 50 @ 90F!!

Holy cow, it keeps getting earlier and earlier. What say next year, I crank the incubator up to 95F and try to hatch them out in 35 days, LOL!!

Though these were some nice shots!!

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Why is it that there isn't anything cuter that a drooling baby...Congrats man!

Darci
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Takes all kinds to make a World...

I too have noticed that the time it takes for a clutch to hatch can vary even if conditions are identical. I had a ball clutch from the same parents in the same incubator set at the same temps hatch in 53 days one year and 57 in the next. What I'm thinking is this...Obviously, the eggs have already started to devlop when they are laid (thats why we see good veination immediately after laying). I think that the female has a window during which she will lay. If she happens to lay at the start of the window, the eggs will take longer to hatch. If the eggs are laid near the end of the window, they've already developed more inside of her, and will hatch quicker. Does that sound like a plausible explanation? I don't know, just my guess....Anybody?

>>I too have noticed that the time it takes for a clutch to hatch can vary even if conditions are identical. I had a ball clutch from the same parents in the same incubator set at the same temps hatch in 53 days one year and 57 in the next. What I'm thinking is this...Obviously, the eggs have already started to devlop when they are laid (thats why we see good veination immediately after laying). I think that the female has a window during which she will lay. If she happens to lay at the start of the window, the eggs will take longer to hatch. If the eggs are laid near the end of the window, they've already developed more inside of her, and will hatch quicker. Does that sound like a plausible explanation? I don't know, just my guess....Anybody?

how is arizona life?

life is good up here. living in canby now. monitor collection is growing, so are the snakes.

email me sometime. anowen23@hotmail

andrew

Might be something to it, but it doesn't apply to these particular two females. Small data source though, might be interesting to investigate further...

Female #1:

1) Ovulated on: Feb. 1st
2) Shed on: Feb. 20th
3) Laid on: March 14th
4) Hatched on: May 4th

Female #2:

1) Ovulated on: Jan. 26th
2) Shed on: Feb. 15th
3) Laid on: March 11th
4) Hatched on: May 5th
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i don't think that i would word it like that, but i am not prepared to say its wrong.

when a female is nesting she must find appropriate nesting material (which she knows what that is and you don't). if she thinks that what you put together for her is totally crappy then she will just reabsorbe or start laying trash eggs all over her enclosure.

most of our problems in python husbandry today come from a lack of choices. these choices range from heat to nesting. food is the only variable i think that does not matter (within reason, but they can handle one good food item like rats or mice).

andrew

But yes, I think all failures result from husbandry problems, and all successes result in the animals being resiliant enough to withstand our mistakes.

In short: Its always the keeper's fault, and NOT the animal's!

Cheers.
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nm
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Jaremy Douglas

And more on the way...pics are a brewin'..............

Cheers!!
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