>>Terry,
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>>Fascinating stuff. I am particularly intrigued by the clutch-size question. I wish I had kept better records. My recollection is that my female's first clutch was 7 large eggs. while her last was 22 eggs, also large. In addition, all of the resulting hatchlings were large and robust compared to neonate corns. Overall, about 70% hatched successfully. That rate would have been better if I had been a better keeper.
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>>Thanks Again!
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>>John D.


John, the second piece of info is the most important. Twenty-two is a large number of eggs, and indicative of a corn snake, not a GPR. However, the largeness of the eggs is likely due to the emoryi influence in your creamsicle line. I'm not sure how big the eggs were, but you said bigger than a normal corn's. Just to let you know how big an Emory's eggs can be, the eggs in my Emory's clutch this summer measured 2" X 1" for the most part. They were huge. There were only 7 in the clutch. The babies hatched Aug 6th and are eating two pinks at a time already.

TC

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