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RE: That's quite a production line...

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Posted by: ratsnakehaven at Mon Oct 29 16:11:55 2007  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ratsnakehaven ]  
   

>>Once the females are close to 5 feet you usually get 8 eggs. I have one larger female that has layed up to 12 eggs. The babies aren't especially delicate but I have found they do better, as far as starting to feed, if you keep them individually in larger than normal caging. I use slightly damp sphagnum moss about 2 inches deep as a substrate and also an inverted water bowl as a hide in a sweater box size sterilite rack. It takes about 5 years for them to reach breeding size but they live and reproduce well into their 20s. I have one female that layed 10 good eggs this year that has to be close to 28 years old.


That's really interesting. Have you kept moellendorffi that long...over 20 yrs?

- Terry


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