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Check what happened over the years in this logbook... |
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| December
31 |
The end of an frustrating year. No offspring at all and several adults lost. | |
| October 12 | During my evening inspection I
found female 04.04 eating her litter. I forced her to vomit and concluded
that the litter did excist out at least of 10 dead youngsters and two unfertile
eggs. All juvenile are within the membrane and look full grown.. It's very
frustrating to have a dead litter again without having a clue what the
reason might be ...
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| October
02 |
Again an adult female died unexpectedly. It's femal 99.17 born in 1999 and pregnant too. The picture, taken a week ago, shows her filled belly and dark skin. |
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| September
11 |
Yesterday female number 04.17 did
give birth to 10 unfertile eggs and one relatively large juvenile. A poor
score but what a beautiful red one !
Much to my disappointed I found this juvenile dead this morning. Nothing abnormal was noticed during inspection yesterday; it did react alert and adequate.
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| August
12 |
The last remaining Gonyosoma oxycephalum died. He was doing well over the last three months. Last week he did throw up two days after eating a mouse. I didn't worry to much because the prey was relatively large. | |
| July
09 |
I added the remaining Gonyosoma oxycephalum to my collection. He's doing fine. | |
| June
04 |
Much to my surprise I found female 99.18 dead this morning. I didn't notice any abnormal behaviour over the last months. I did see several matings in Februari and expected her to be pregnant. She stopped eating, was allways found near the hot spot and het skin darkened. All signs for a pregnancy. Inspecting the dead body I noticed a necrotic thickening of het belly. |
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| June
01 |
The only Gonyosoma oxycephalum left is doing well. He eats and sheds without a problem. I'll keep him in quarantaine for a few more weeks. | |
| May
31
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Two of the December 2007 offspring
Corallus
hortulanus did not eat untill now.
Two chicks (one day old) from a
couple diamond doves fell out of their nest yesterday and were accepted
instantly.
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| May
25
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The female Morelia viridis keeps amazing us with her behaviour. Over the last months she stayed in the terracotta pot for weeks at the time. Whe shedded yesterday and accepted a small rat today. It doesn't look like she is pregnant. | |
| April
04
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Today again two Gonyosoma
oxycephalum
died.
This is a picture taken on March 31 showing the skin problems two days before the animal died. There's one animal left. He recovered
and it looks like he is doing well.
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| March
24
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Problems with Gonyosoma oxycephalum.
Since
two days all three animals left developed skin problems that look like
waterpox. Odd, because we don't keep wet at all. Antibiotics started and
we decided to keep them even more dryer.
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| March
6 |
The female Morelia
viridis did shed and is back in the laying site. We'll wait and see...
One of the Gonyosoma oxycephalum died. |
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| March
3 |
Problems with Gonyosoma
oxycephalum. Only one animal did eat (once). All four have snake
mite. Treatment started today. Fortunately they were kept in quarantaine
apart from the other animals in our collection.
These are not the problems you expect with captive born animals.... |
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| February
28 |
The Morelia viridis female was taken out of the laying site for inspection today. She did not leave this site for the last week. We expect her to be pregnant; she grew over the last weeks and her basic colour is changing to a lighter shade of blue. (compare this picture with the one taken on January 27..) |
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| February
22 |
Much to our surprise we found our female Morelia viridis inside the terra-cotta flowerpot filled with moist vermicullite. We saw matings in Juli next year and in January this year. We'll wait and see.. |
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| February
18 |
Again matings observed
on Epicrates c. cenchria
Last years juveniles are beautiful !!  |
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| February
17 |
Yesterday we introduced the males numbers 15 and 20 to the ladies. Both did mate on the same evening.. | |
| January
30 |
We saw matings by Epicrates c. cenchria. The Corallus hortulanus male 05 was put together with female 17 and later female 18 but no matings seen. | |
| January
27 |
We did put the couple Morelia viridis
together on January 25 with a mating the same evening. The next evening
we saw a second mating.
It's remarkeble to see the difference in colour between both animals. After last years matings (in January, February and July) the female changed colour what made us believe she was pregnant. She did not produce eggs and did not return to her "original" colour. |
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| January
27 |
We went to the local reptile market today and found, much to our surprise Gonyosoma oxycephalum offspring 2007 on sale. This one was on our wishing list for ages but we never found healthy offspring. We bought 2,2 |
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| January
23 |
Last week we decided about the animals to breed with this year. Check "breeding" for the details. | |
| January
01 |
best wishes to you all !! |
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