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...Two of the very gravid looking females have been cruising their cages for the last 2 days. I decided they may not have enough humidity inside the flowerpots and were looking for a better place to lay. I set up a couple of plastic storage boxes with wet cocoanut husk inside and large holes in the lids and put them in the cages. Both females went right into the boxes. One started laying within 30 minutes. The other seems to be waiting quietly now. The one that laid was born here in 1999 and this is her second litter. There are 15 healthy babies, a seriously deformed one and four slugs. The other gravid one which is a sister of the one that laid tonight seems to be ready and looks like she will lay a good sized litter soon. Just a couple more BRB litters to go after this next one lays.
Jeff

Sounds like the moist spot was all she needed. Hope her sister drops overnight as well.

PICS PICS PICS ?????????
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12.100 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

...These are some PICs of a few BRB birth events this year.
This first PIC is the litter that was born tonight. The mother was still having contractions but had finished laying when the photo was taken. The babies in this litter are larger than typical and it looks like there are some good ones in the litter.

This male bred with several females this year. He was out moving around tonight after shedding and put on his white sidewalls. The orange on his sides usually extends down below the row of large dark spots.

This is the mother that laid babies sunday morning. She was eating this slug when I discovered she had laid babies. Slug eating occurs in other species but it seems to occur more often with Rainbow Boas than with other species. Some people may be put off by this photo but I think this behaviour is extremely interesting and needs to be documented.

This is one of the babies that was born sunday morning. BRBs are often born very light colored like this. If they are laid more than a few days prematurely they will be even lighter than this and some people have had premature stillborn ones that were so light that they thought they had lost amelanistic babies. They color up each time they shed for the first few sheds and then get darker and stay that way for a year or more. Just a guess, but little BRBs have lots of predators to worry about and need to be well camouflaged. Big BRBs are less likely to encounter predators large enough to eat them and may not need such good camouflage. No matter what color they are they all are pretty hard to see in forest leaf litter.

This litter had 24 live babies plus some slugs and stillborns and was born in mid august. All of these babies went to the Daytona Expo and were sold.

np
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife
0.2 kids
4.12.100 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.1 Ball python
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Hey Jeff, this year I had a clutch born with what I think are pretty large babies. The largest was 39.6 grams. I'm just curious to see what your (or anyone else's) average weights are. I certainly can't compete with number of clutches or clutch size. Maybe I can compete in a weight class. Let me know,

Mike

Mike,
....I just weighed some that have not eaten yet. They all weigh 32 to 34 grams. I think I remember weighing newborn ones once before that were around 30 grams.
Jeff

>>Hey Jeff, this year I had a clutch born with what I think are pretty large babies. The largest was 39.6 grams. I'm just curious to see what your (or anyone else's) average weights are. I certainly can't compete with number of clutches or clutch size. Maybe I can compete in a weight class. Let me know,
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>>Mike