WoooHoooo! She laid!!!!!

Well yesterday (13 days since their last mating) I found the Ackies at it again(obviously the female has started her next cycle)
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_0458.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_0459.jpg

and today they were back at it, but on this morning the female emerged not all chubby looking like this
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_0375.jpg

but looking like this
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_0482.jpg
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_0485.jpg

Soooooo...... hundreds of pounds of dirt later I'm welcomed by this wonderful sight
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_0486.jpg

and now have 6 Varanus acanthurus brachyurus eggs cooking with more on the way.
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_0498.jpg

Now the hard part..........

Gonna be a LOOOOONG road ahead.

Congrats.

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

Gonna be a LOOOOONG road ahead.

Congrats.

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................. LOL aint that the truth. Ill probably start pulling my hair out around day 75 :rolleye2: Thanx.

Can I ask what temp you are Incubating at?

Very nice!! Congrats and good luck with your eggs :gj:

Just adding a much better pic of the eggs since the other one is so crappy.
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/100_0551.jpg

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

Can I ask what temp you are Incubating at?

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.......................... Trying to keep it around 86F.

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Originally Posted by Boanerges

Very nice!! Congrats and good luck with your eggs :gj:

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.............. Thank you.

Big congratulations, Slayer!! :gj:

Hope to see some little brackies in the future!

Chris

Thanx Chris.

sweet, thankyou for linking me to the update. Now I gotta catch up :)

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Originally Posted by Ga_herps

sweet, thankyou for linking me to the update. Now I gotta catch up :)

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................... No worries GA. Hope her nesting (and the incubation) goes well for you. Post some pics when she lays :gj: The world needs more c.b.b varanids.

Wow those eggs look way cooler than snake eggs. They look more like a dinosaur egg! (even though I don't know what a dino egg really looks like lol)

Will do slayer :) I have to say my ackies and timors have really won me over.

Congrats on the eggs. I don't know if they are you're first or not but as someone who has had few clutches not make it I figure I might as well share the experience and info i've gathered from more experienced keepers....nothign is more dissappointing than 10 eggs going 110 days only to have 2 hatch and 8 perfect babies drown in the egg.

-In the past, I've always incubated them wayyyy tooo wet. They seem to not fair as well in the same conditions as say bp eggs.

-the more substrate/bigger the container you have them in the better. This stabilizes the temps. (fast temp changes, even SMALL ones seem to have an adverse effect) whereas slow temp/humidity changes are tolerated. An example would be removing them to candle etc.'

Probably seems like no brainers to you guys but it was stuff i didnt really know


my lack of success with eggs in the past was due mostly to improvised/poor incubation i think. I have a clutch thats been cooking for about a month now. fingers crossed. and GOOD LUCK with them

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Originally Posted by slayer

................. LOL aint that the truth. Ill probably start pulling my hair out around day 75 :rolleye2: Thanx.

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75 days!!!! wow... how long do they go???? im on here for ball pythons and im used to 60 lol.... i dont know the first thing about these guys but looks really cool....con grats on the eggs :gj: thanks

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Originally Posted by moravaguy

75 days!!!! wow... how long do they go???? im on here for ball pythons and im used to 60 lol.... i dont know the first thing about these guys but looks really cool....con grats on the eggs :gj: thanks

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................... Around the 110 day mark.

wow thats to long lol.... thanks for the info:gj: