Quote Originally Posted by AndrewH
Does anyone have any information as to whether diet and nutrition will effect the outcome of a healthy clutch in any noticeable way, such as higher clutch count, higher hatching rate or anything of the like? I'm interested in hearing opinions on this. I'm doing this whole feeding thing just to see how the feeding schedule effects the overall health and appearance of the animal, but I am getting more curious about it effecting breeding.
andrew you dont need to be a snake breeder to answer these questions... you can find the answers your looking for at school.

btw its cool you doing what your doing... you might want to weigh them with empty stomachs and put the numbers in Excel to make some graphs.

it is said that if you overfeed a large boid they will slug out... first, how does one know if a snake is obese? what is the standard, if there is one?

i know this guy jim who feeds his jamps like crazy (people say his jamps are obese!!) and one of his snakes laid 64 eggs and no slugs.

what you are asking applies to lots of other animals... during a good season where there is lots of food... females will usaully have more babies.

think of rabbits... their litter size is dependent on food availability, the more food available the more babies they have.

i dont think people realize that when these snakes mature their ova, the snake needs enough fat reserves to make yolk. these snakes are built to store fat.

take some time and read the link below...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_history_theory