Yeah! I finally did it. I have been working with these guys for years and it finally worked. I received a pair of mex tiger babies from Dick Bartlett about four years ago. Last year they laid some slugs but this year it was a nice clutch that hatched into six healthy babies. Unfortunately they are all males. Hopefully there will be more variety next year.
The mexican subspecies of spiloties always has the double banding, light yellow and orange yellow.
My tiger rat snake web page
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Mexican Spiloties breeding success...sort of
TomD
Jul 17, 2004 04:16 PM
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chris_harper2
Jul 17, 2004 05:56 PM
I remember when the Mexican Spilotes were fairly common - they were always my favorite. Glad to see you've had some success and hope you get females in your next clutch.
I enjoyed your website. I'm going to shoot you an e-mail re. Gonyosoma one of these days.
RichH
Jul 18, 2004 11:43 AM
Congratulations.....
Rich Hebron
terryp
Jul 18, 2004 05:10 PM
Congrats and nice going Tom. It will be great to start seeing Mexican spilotes out there. You may want to change the incubation temp a couple dgrees next year to get some females. It may take a little longer to incubate. Start a few degrees lower and then bring up the temp a few degrees after 3 or 4 weeks. Just my thought.
Terry Parks
