My Montgomery, NC locality girl dropped her clutch yesterday for a total of 22 eggs, all of which are good. She dumped her water and soaked her bedding recently and instead of cleaning everything out and disturbing her right before she dropped the eggs, I thought I'd try a trick I picked up from the kingsnake forum. So I just flipped a big dinner plate over the damp bedding and she set up shop under there and dropped her eggs. The pics are in sequence showing the very simple nesting area, a pic from yesterday morning, then one from yesterday evening after all the eggs were out.
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Big Black Rat Clutch
Kevin Saunders
May 23, 2012 04:20 PM
Replies (4)
tspuckler
May 25, 2012 05:24 PM
That "plate trick" is really starting to catch on - I may have to give it a try.
I like how dark that Black Rat is - it's a really nice example.
Tim
Third Eye
rick d
May 25, 2012 10:27 PM
Is the male that dark? Are you selling the offspring? Nice looking snake!
Kevin Saunders
May 26, 2012 02:34 AM
>>Is the male that dark? Are you selling the offspring? Nice looking snake!
The male does have more pattern showing than the female, but he's still nice and dark (and monstrous-over 6.5 ft and heavy). Both are from the same locality.
Shoot me an email if you'd like to discuss potential offspring.
Mark_Dwight
Jun 07, 2012 06:27 PM
Nice clutch!
I still want that big girl so bad I can taste it. 
Maybe we can still work something out? A short term breeding loan perhaps?? 
