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Friday 4/13 my 5-6 year old female jungle laid her first clutch of 21 eggs. The eggs were removed shortly after she finished lying and according to my roommate she was easy to get the eggs from, and best of all the eggs separated easily. They are all in the incubator and now the long process of waiting. Well it’s not a very long waiting process but the excitement makes it seem so much longer. This female has been paired up with my banded high yellow Male jungle and a young Coastal Jag male that is just starting to begin his color change, showing nice yellow color. We weren’t planning on breeding him this year but he was chasing the younger females so we figured what the hay. Both males were seen locking up with her so it’s not positive as to whom the daddy is but we will know when they hatch. Our Baby season has begun and we are expecting it to be a nice one. :-D I will get pictures up soon just need to upload/resize them.

Here are some pictures my roomate snapped when he caught my female Jungle in he process:

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Nice shot of the egg coming out! Cant wait to see the hatchlings!
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Cindy Steinle
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I am a little over the half way mark now and I figured I would provide an update to those interested. This is my second season attempting to incubate python eggs and it seems to be going a lot better already. Last year we lost 99% to mold and we got one to go full term but never came out. (It was a sad day) I candles the eggs about 2-3 days after they were laid and figured that about 10-11 were infertile due to no veins showing and the eggs showing a yellowish yolk inside. We left all the eggs in the incubator anyways just in case. About 2 days ago my roommate and I again candled but this time we pulled 10 of the eggs. The ones pulled had begun to collapse/shrivel, mold and when candled showed no veins and were yellowish inside. One egg has clearly begun to mold but still has movement inside and veins. We have cleaned the mold off the egg and lightly added an anti-bacterial spray over the egg to help combat the mold. The egg still has movement within so we are hoping that the shell of the egg is going to hold up against the attack. The temp in the incubator was set to 89 and has a humidity of 88-90%. I have dropped the temp to 87 and checked the material to ensure its not to wet. The material seams fine so we are going to keep an eye on things and hope for the best over the last half of the time. I have read that anti-fungal powers works to help fight mold but haven’t got any yet.
We are also hoping to get a few more eggs from a younger female costal jag sibling in the next week or so.
Thanks,
Anthony

Ok so I am way behind on this post but here are some of the baby Jungles that hatched. The first snake hatched out of the egg june 15th and the last came out the 18th. Total we had 10 hatch and all are feeding weekly on rat scented large frozen thawed pinky mice. They have your typical baby jungle attitude and have begun to show great colors. Every week more and more yellow begins to show.
Hope you all enjoy,
Anthony

Picture of color progress as of 8-27-12
They are showing great yellow for being so young... in my opinion at least.