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08-12-04, 07:39 PM
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Join Date: May-2002
Location: Leader, SK
Age: 45
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Hommies in da house! *pics*
After 2.5 yrs of raising up three lil worms, which Katt brought back home from Daytona in 2002, this is the final result. A species which I've been wanting to breed since I started into this hobby, House snakes.
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/Vanan/Snakes/hshatch1.jpg">
A whole week before they were due. Started pipping on day 53.
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/Vanan/Snakes/hshatch2.jpg">
That container btw, is a condiment cup. Temporary housing til they all start shedding and feeding.
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/Vanan/Snakes/hsbaby1.jpg">
Tough to get a good shot of them lil worms. Here's the only half decent one of the many I took. This one was the first one to shed. Pending the rest of the gang to follow suit.
That's all for hatchling photos. Was waiting for them to shed and then take a group photo but I didn't wanna be prying off the pipsqueaks from each other. Ravenous lil leeches!
Here are pics of my breeders.
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/Vanan/Snakes/HouseM1.jpg">
My male who proved to be a pain in the butt to feed for his first yr and a half. During breeding season, he was still a lil thing compared to the femmes but it seems that he's gained his appetite after he got a lil nookie. Moved up from a fuzzie eater to a hopper killer in a matter of a month!
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/Vanan/Snakes/Henna1.jpg">
My "red" phase female. She's in one of her dark moods. When it's pretty warm, she lightens up enough that the eye stripe is as light as ivory. Waiting one her first clutch (12) in the incubator.
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/Vanan/Snakes/Henna2.jpg">
A close up of my red-phase "Antaresia". Same snake.
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v167/Vanan/Snakes/Hazel1.jpg">
My other female. I guess she'd be called a dark phase or brown phase. She be the mommy of the hatchlings. First clutch of 11, one egg went bad, one full term dead-in-egg. Waiting on her 2nd clutch of 13, which she laid without reintroduction of the male. Are they prolific or what!
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The Herp Room
"The day I tried to live, I wallowed in the blood and mud with all the other pigs" - C. Cornell
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08-12-04, 07:42 PM
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Join Date: Jun-2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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Those are so awesome!!!! Word, yo!
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08-12-04, 08:05 PM
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Please Email Boots
Join Date: Mar-2007
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Things are happenin on the West siiiide (of Leader)
West side yall!
Ryan
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08-12-04, 08:49 PM
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LMAO!! 
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Vanan
The Herp Room
"The day I tried to live, I wallowed in the blood and mud with all the other pigs" - C. Cornell
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08-12-04, 09:12 PM
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Join Date: May-2004
Location: Leader, Saskatchewan
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With all the success you guys are having lately I'm going to be getting back into the hobby deeper than I thought......LOL!!
Congrats!!!
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0.1 Eastern Indigo, 1.0 Hypo Bullsnake, 4.9 Corn Snakes, 0.1 Western Hognose, 0.2 Crested Geckos, 1.0 Bearded Dragon, 0.0.1 Savannah Monitor.
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08-12-04, 09:23 PM
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Congrats~!
Those little ones looks great~~
Keep them coming!!!
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08-12-04, 09:24 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Ontario
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Congrats, they look great!
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Steven
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08-12-04, 09:49 PM
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Join Date: Dec-2003
Location: vernon bc
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Wow! Love that red female... well love em' all but that girl is gorgeous! Congrats, on your new babes.
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08-12-04, 11:01 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Ontario Canada
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Well coming from a guy, that can't seem to breed mine, a big congrats to you Vanan!!
I have two pair, that are 3.5 feet long, and they have never even produced slugs.. They eat like pigs hump like mice, but not one egg yet and they're 3 years old...
Go figure...
I'm jealous now!! LOL
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Herpetology - more than a hobby
It's a Lifestyle
celebrating 26 years of herp breeding
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08-12-04, 11:37 PM
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Join Date: May-2002
Location: Leader, SK
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lol! Roy, you sound like Piers and his guppies! lol.
Although I'm not totally surprised that your females never produced any. How long do you leave your male in with them? When I was going for 1st clutches, the brown one (the double clutcher) had the male in with her for a week (noticed two copulations, more might have been missed). The 2nd female (the red one) had him for only two days (noticed only one copulation). Both females started gaining weight and looked as if they were gravid. One shed and laid eggs, the red one shed and started eating again! No eggs whatsoever. So I tried her again with the male, this time leaving him in with her for at least 7 days (maybe 8). This time she laid. Both females were fed the same, given additional calcium during breeding and gravidity, exposed to the same male. Only difference was the length of exposure to the male.
Thanks for the compliments guys! It's nice to see that some underrated species can still be appreciated. All I can say now is, I'm a happy man. Although I would be happier if them hogs started coming out already!!!
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Vanan
The Herp Room
"The day I tried to live, I wallowed in the blood and mud with all the other pigs" - C. Cornell
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08-12-04, 11:48 PM
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Please Email Boots
Join Date: Mar-2007
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I've been watching the barometric pressure, and I predict that the hogs will pip soon too - waiting for some of our snakes to lay eggs because of it..... I'm getting it down to a fine science I think.
You should get a picture of those little guys (house snakes) beside a coin - condiment cup you say, they look small.
Ryan
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08-12-04, 11:52 PM
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Join Date: Mar-2003
Location: Ontario Canada
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Mine have been living together since April. In fact the males have become so skinny, from too much copulating and no eating, that I have just separated them, as they wont eat when with the females. My males are less than half the size of the females, and I'm wondering if they are even mature. One of my females got huge, looked like it would happen but then nothing....
It's getting personal now.
I'm going to get an albino male.. maybe that will turn them on.
These things are supposed to breed like Pictus, or as you suggest , like guppies, but not mine..not yet at least.
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Herpetology - more than a hobby
It's a Lifestyle
celebrating 26 years of herp breeding
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08-12-04, 11:55 PM
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Location: British Colombia
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The hoggies are pipping already. Just waiting on the last.
Roy, I think that your breeding success luck has to run out at some point! You got enough neat things hatching, share the breeding wealth!!
That's just too funny and here we thought you were pumping out those house snakes left right and centre!
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08-13-04, 12:04 AM
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It's getting personal now.
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LMAO!!
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I'm going to get an albino male.. maybe that will turn them on.
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That'll turn me on fer sure! Rowr!!
I wish I had taken a pic when the male was breeding the females, to show the size difference. Also, I should correct myself. My house snakes are not 2.5 yrs old but 2 yrs old. Given that, I don't see why your males wouldn't be mature enough at 3yrs of age. Ever tried keeping them apart then only introducing them for a bit. The absence of the male might take the female's "mind" off of breeding and actually developing the ova further instead of reabsorbing them. I dunno but it sounds like the height of promiscuity to me! lol. All the breeding, no baby-toting. lol!
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Vanan
The Herp Room
"The day I tried to live, I wallowed in the blood and mud with all the other pigs" - C. Cornell
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08-13-04, 12:08 AM
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Join Date: Aug-2002
Location: Manitoba
Posts: 4,971
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Condiment cup?!?!?!? Holy smokes! I assumed it was in a deli cup. Man, that's a small hatchling!
Congrats, Buddy! 
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