So on 6/21/17 I checked off another species of python off the list, everybody I know has a master list of species they want to breed before they die. Mine is more into genus’, because I’m not breeding children’s pythons, or stimsons, not going to happen. However I’ll breed spotteds. They are by far easier to deal with as babies and I don’t have to force feed rat tails!!
So I figured this time around I’d go over how I bred them and what I expect from the babies.
I witnessed no locks, the female, who lives comfortably in a 28q tub was moved to a v18 for breeding cause the male is tiny! Anyone who knows antaresia, knows they are worse then kingsnakes at escaping. No locks, no real cooling, the female ate up to Jan or feb. they were together till march when I brought the pits back in. Because I witnessed no locks and the only real sign I had was no feed response. Which for the female in question is not that abnormal. The male was less then a yr old, het granite, the female is a visual granite and just awesome! The male likes to eat my fingers! So this yr I basically didn’t cool anything, did not have anything set up to really to cool the room, I’ve since fixed that. She shed sometime in early may, which as it turns out was her prelay, and layed in late June. A that’s my experience breeding spotted pythons! Next yr I will have more info to share as I’m back in the habit of record keeping! Crazy snakes surprise you sometimes! The good news is that I don’t have to make my male any bigger then he is.
So I got 3 eggs, unlike what I’ve heard about antaresia, my female did not have a lot of interest in being a mom. So they were removed and the female is back on food! I placed them in a 6qt shoe box filled with vermiculite and water. I’m one of those annoying old timer that goes entirely by feel on mixing your vermiculite and water. So I can’t give you a ratio, but if you are ever in the dfw area and want a hands on demo I’m glad to help!! Doing research they hatch at 45-50 days at 88, I incubate at 85 so I’m expecting 50-55 days. Being a visual to a het I’m hoping at least one of the 3 will be a visual granite. And the rest should be hets. Depending on the sex ratio I’ll prolly keep them all back as they are tiny and don’t take hardly any room! I look forward to updating every one on their progress.
