Quote Originally Posted by frankykeno View Post
Having ended up with a couple of these females after they've laid their clutches I really feel I have to say something on that subject (not bashing, just a comment really).

Az I hope you do have experience with getting a WC adult properly settled into captivity. WC adults, especially ones that come in gravid, can be highly stressed snakes. They can and will go on extremely long hunger strikes, can often have parasite loads both externally and internally and often are not in great physical shape due to shipping, overhandling and whatever rigors of living wild they survived prior to becoming gravid.

I hope you are ready for what may come for this female. She's not just a way to eggs. She needs and deserves a lot of work to allow her to live and thrive in captivity after she lays that clutch. Some do well, many do not and I've personally seen the results of the ones that don't do well and aren't made a priority in a collection.
I agree 1000% with FrankyKeno. WC's are a lot of work, they can and often do refuse to eat for MONTHS. Sometimes a year or more. Not even to mention the parasite load.

I have to wonder what the motivations were in buying a WC gravid female? Just you asking this question tells me that perhaps you don't understand the full aspects of breeding, but want to hatch eggs anyways without going through the full process with two adult animals.

Are you just looking for some hatchlings to raise and sell? I'm sure there are many breeders who would sell captive hatched or captive bred normal babies to you. Then you can work through getting babies to eat, and finding people to sell to.