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Mocquards Beauty snake. This girl shows me no love at all but I still love her(when I can dodge her).lol

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Randy Whittington

Beautiful mocquardi, Randy!
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Very appropriately named snakes the Orthriophis. Seems they brood their eggs which is very uncommon isn't it? I wonder if the brood to hatching in the wild?
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I always take the eggs from the females within 48 hours after them being laid. From what I remember though, all the taeniura subspecies I've bred have stayed with the eggs until their taken. They rarely give them up without a fight either.

Their was a article I read years ago on taeniura callicyanous(blue beauties), if I remember correctly, where the person left the eggs with the female. She stayed with the eggs until they hatched. I don't remember if it was a second clutch with the same female or another female he had but it seems she left the eggs some time during incubation and the clutch had to be taken to finish their incubation.

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Randy Whittington

Randy and Brad - I remember hearing about the article Randy mentioned, and there was also a discussion at the Ratsnake Foundation (a couple years ago, I think) concerning beauty females staying with their eggs all the way to hatching - seems that they will. My female Chinese beauties have also not given up their eggs willingly - put a death squeeze on them. I have been very tempted to leave one with a clutch and see what happens - maybe this year?
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-Toby Brock
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research

Thanks guys for the follow-up. I find that quite interesting and to knowledge, peculiar among most snakes. In fact the only other species I'm aware of that do that are King Cobras and pythons.
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