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TremTricolors
05-13-12, 08:42 AM
Can't beat being a first time mother on Mother's Day. As some of you saw a post I did earlier about how gravid my California King was, well here she is laying egg number two. Sorry for the blurry pics but I took them through the bottom of here tub. I just never seem to catch them laying so this was actually a first for me too.....
Here she is before.......
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee515/KcTrader/CalKingGravid2012bodyshot2.jpg
Here she is Laying.....
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee515/KcTrader/CalKinglaying2012002.jpg
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee515/KcTrader/CalKinglaying2012005.jpg
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee515/KcTrader/CalKinglaying2012008.jpg
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee515/KcTrader/CalKinglaying2012012.jpg
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee515/KcTrader/CalKinglaying2012017.jpg
exwizard
05-13-12, 08:55 AM
Very very cool. :)
Terranaut
05-13-12, 09:50 AM
Great pics!!!
TremTricolors
05-13-12, 11:01 AM
Very very cool. :)

Great pics!!!

Thanks! Looking forward to seeing how many she lays...
Rogue628
05-13-12, 01:24 PM
Very cool! Thanks for sharing :)

Can't wait to see how many she lays.

Refresh my memory. What did you breed to her?
alessia55
05-13-12, 01:26 PM
Woah those are some awesome shots of her laying!!!
TremTricolors
05-13-12, 02:02 PM
Very cool! Thanks for sharing :)

Can't wait to see how many she lays.

Refresh my memory. What did you breed to her?

She wound up laying a total of seven nice large eggs, she was bred to another plain jane desert phase California King. No morphs involved in this pairing at all.....
TremTricolors
05-13-12, 02:04 PM
Woah those are some awesome shots of her laying!!!

Thanks! I really enjoyed being able to sit and watch, camera in one hand and coffee in another. Better than the Discovery channel....LOL
Jlassiter
05-13-12, 08:44 PM
Cool Jimmy....congrats!
Jlassiter
05-13-12, 08:44 PM
My Cal king male has hooked up with 3 females at least once.......I will keep rotating him so I can see some cool calkings hatch again.......
Rogue628
05-13-12, 10:04 PM
She wound up laying a total of seven nice large eggs, she was bred to another plain jane desert phase California King. No morphs involved in this pairing at all.....


I'm not that fond of morphs in kings. I really like a banded, reverse stripe, and aberrant phases of the coastal and desert kings myself. :)

My old king was a banded coastal phase cali king and the one I keep now is a reverse stripe (although she looks more of an aberrant pattern) desert phase king.

Can't wait to see the cute little babies hatch! Hope you're around when it happens! :)
Jlassiter
05-13-12, 10:30 PM
Reverse stripe, banded and aberrant are morphs.....but I may be nit picking....lol
TremTricolors
05-14-12, 06:32 PM
I'm not that fond of morphs in kings. I really like a banded, reverse stripe, and aberrant phases of the coastal and desert kings myself. :)

My old king was a banded coastal phase cali king and the one I keep now is a reverse stripe (although she looks more of an aberrant pattern) desert phase king.

Can't wait to see the cute little babies hatch! Hope you're around when it happens! :)

I'll be around, it's only 60 days give a take a couple. She laid a total of 7 eggs so hopefully I get some nice black and white desert banded kings.....I have always liked them the best,too.... Even though that killer "tiger Morph" John L. has is really sweet too.
TremTricolors
05-14-12, 06:33 PM
Reverse stripe, banded and aberrant are morphs.....but I may be nit picking....lol
Post that "tiger morph" those things are sweet you nit picking a$$! LOL
Jlassiter
05-15-12, 09:13 AM
Lol....
Will do soon
Rogue628
05-15-12, 01:45 PM
I'll be around, it's only 60 days give a take a couple. She laid a total of 7 eggs so hopefully I get some nice black and white desert banded kings.....I have always liked them the best,too.... Even though that killer "tiger Morph" John L. has is really sweet too.


I may not have said that right. I meant, I hope you're around to witness them hatching so you can take pics to share :)
TremTricolors
05-15-12, 05:55 PM
I may not have said that right. I meant, I hope you're around to witness them hatching so you can take pics to share :)

Oh, sorry usually I can catch them hatching as it takes usually 24 hours or so for them to hatch....
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee515/KcTrader/Hatch2011002.jpg
RossCA
05-19-12, 08:40 PM
Those are really cool pictures of thing laying that egg. I need to spend more time on this forum, I totally missed this thread. Yeah, I'm a big fan of the natural stuff my self. I'm working with several different localities of Cal kings here in Southern CA. Mostly kings I found in the wild. My favorite project is a desert phase hypo I found in 2005. I bred her in 2010 and held back a male het to hopefully prove out the hypo gene next year. In the mean time, I'm hoping its a recessive gene, but I'm pretty sure it is. My plans are to keep this line locality pure.
Jlassiter
05-19-12, 09:10 PM
And I'd love to have some Ross!
TremTricolors
05-19-12, 09:41 PM
Those are really cool pictures of thing laying that egg. I need to spend more time on this forum, I totally missed this thread. Yeah, I'm a big fan of the natural stuff my self. I'm working with several different localities of Cal kings here in Southern CA. Mostly kings I found in the wild. My favorite project is a desert phase hypo I found in 2005. I bred her in 2010 and held back a male het to hopefully prove out the hypo gene next year. In the mean time, I'm hoping its a recessive gene, but I'm pretty sure it is. My plans are to keep this line locality pure.

Ross, your site keeps getting better and better man! I just checked out all those breeding pics from the past really cool pairings the past few years. I didn't catch if you paired up your Grease Kings this year or not. I like those too! Hope all works out on that hypo project, that is a killer desert phase hypo! Hopefully it's genetic.
RossCA
05-19-12, 11:01 PM
Ross, your site keeps getting better and better man! I just checked out all those breeding pics from the past really cool pairings the past few years. I didn't catch if you paired up your Grease Kings this year or not. I like those too! Hope all works out on that hypo project, that is a killer desert phase hypo! Hopefully it's genetic.

Thanks a lot! The site has been a lot of fun putting together and I'm always finding new things to add. At first, all it was going to be was my Cal king finds over the past several years, but I decided to add other herpers pictures, and just kept expanding from there. Yeah, I hope its genetic too. If not, I will be surprised. I have a trio of wild caught Grease kings I bred just this past week. Go to this link and scroll down to "2012 pairings".

My captive breeding - Southern California Kingsnakes (http://southerncaliforniakingsnakes.weebly.com/my-captive-breeding.html)


John, My friend has a trio of these hets that should be ready to breed next year too. We will probably hold back the first hypos we produce, but the fallowing year, those we will let go for sure.