a couple clutches

My passion is balls, but I still love my corns too! Here's pics of a couple clutches laid this week.

This clutch is from my first corn I ever got many years ago. 26 eggs, and she should probably double clutch this season.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4...s/HPIM0846.jpg

This girl was 17 months old when I cooled her in November. 18 eggs, not bad.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4...s/HPIM0847.jpg

Sorry no pics of the moms, maybe I'll post them later.
Thanks for looking.
-Evan

Very exciting. Congrats and get us pics when/while they are hatching

Evan that is awesome! I had no idea that Corns could throw clutches that big!

Looks like you're gonna have LOTS of little noodles!!! Very cool!

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Evan that is awesome! I had no idea that Corns could throw clutches that big!

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Yeah, it's amazing that such a slender snake can pack that many eggs into her. 26 is a little above average clutch size, but my friend's corn has clutches of above 40 eggs every year for her first clutch each season. Someone posted a clutch of around 55 eggs on another site last week!! Her second clutch will probably be a little below 20 this year, but 70-80 babies out of two females in one season is plenty for me. :D

-Evan

Lovely eggs Evan. I didn't have any idea either that corns could produce that many eggs or that they could double clutch...wow! Can't wait to see the little corns. How long is the incubation period for them?

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Lovely eggs Evan. I didn't have any idea either that corns could produce that many eggs or that they could double clutch...wow! Can't wait to see the little corns. How long is the incubation period for them?

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Incubation time is about 55 days at 82 degrees and about 90-100% humidity. Most colubrid eggs can handle wider temperature ranges and temperature swings than python eggs (no maternal incubation in the wild), and can be successfully incubated as low a 65-70 degrees, but you better have some patience (add about 2 days for every degree that the average incubation temp falls below 80). I just leave the incubation boxes out in the snake room which usually stays around 80-82.

-Evan

What types (morphs?) of corn babies are you expecting this year?

I only have the "common" genes, albino, hypo, and anerythristic, and right now I only have two females. My older female is anery, double het for both hypo and albino (as is my male). So her clutch will contain anerys, ghosts (anery hypos), and snows (anery amels). My smaller girl is a snow, so you can figure that out. It's always fun to try and figure out the odds with 3 recessive traits :confused: , although all are anery, so I guess it's technically only two traits....


-Evan

we wanna see the mamas!

Since Im learning about the incubating....


When they're all stacked & stuck together, you just keep the humidity for the entire box, right??? It won't matter that they're not IN the moist vermiculite???

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we wanna see the mamas!

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I'll try to snap some tonight, and post them tomorrow.

-Evan

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Since Im learning about the incubating....


When they're all stacked & stuck together, you just keep the humidity for the entire box, right??? It won't matter that they're not IN the moist vermiculite???

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When incubating eggs, you actually don't want them to come into direct contact with water at all. This is the reason that incubation medium that is too moist will cause problems. In a closed egg box, the humidity inside will quickly reach 100% or close to it as long as the medium has enough water in it. Sometimes if enough water leaves the system (during air exchange, or if not using an air-tight system) some of the eggs not touching the medium will start to dent. This is a good sign the relative humidity in the egg box is too low, and it is time to add a little water to the corners of the box. You don't want to get water on the eggs themselves, just get the humidity in the box back up to where it should be. This is one reason a lot of people have been trying the "substrate-less" incubation (we tried it this season with a few clutches with good success so far). The eggs never actually touch the moist substrate, and there is no need to worry about the water in the system, as there is more than enough water in the box to last throughout incubation no matter how many times you open the box up to check on things. Sorry if I rambled on, but I hope all this babbling answers your questions (along with other questions you may not have had).https://ball-pythons.net/forums/imag...es/biggrin.gif

-Evan

No substrate? Evan if you don't mind going further into this it might be worth a thread in the breeding forum. Sounds like an interesting topic to hear everyone's feedback on.

Here's a couple pics of the responsible parties.


The first pair of snakes I ever purchased with the intent to breed, the female is the darker one.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4...s/HPIM0860.jpg

And a first-time mamma right after she ate her first meal post-lay.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f4...s/HPIM0855.jpg

Hope you like....

-Evan

Cute kids! I want a corn.../sigh