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Kelly_Haller
at Thu Jul 5 18:54:45 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Kelly_Haller ]
This first time female came through great earlier this week. She is 5 years of age this month and about 11 feet. I couldn’t get an exact count of the number, but all of the eggs I saw looked full size and nice color. I have always firmly believed in maternal incubation with any molurus subsp., and this will give a rare opportunity to collect some valuable data on this rarest of the group. The eggs were actually slightly larger than average burmese I have measured, and were about 4.25 by 2.5 inches. Environmental conditions today showed the relative humidity at 90%, air temp at 85 degrees F, the nesting substrate at 87, and the intra-coil temp of the female at 91.5. Female was showing a contraction rate of 8 to 12 per minute. The intra-coil temp was just slightly lower than that I have seen as an average for incubating burmese. It will also be interesting to see if the incubation period matches the 56 days, plus or minus 1 day, as is always seen with maternally incubating burmese.
Kelly
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 Pure Sri Lanka clutch.... - Kelly_Haller, Thu Jul 5 18:54:45 2007 
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