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Check what happened over the years in this logbook... |
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| December 25 |
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| December 12 | Our offspring 2004 corallus h.h. did eat on the 10th. One of the youngsters was found lying on his back under the hot spot this morning. We only saw this behaviour before on pregnant females. |
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| October 02 | Both Morelia viridis we found in spasm in August died. They were reasonable eaters. We don't know the cause of their spasm. | |
| September 1 | Several youngsters of
the Morelia viridis 2005 litter are doing extremely well. They accept
dead and alive prey from the forceps, they grow well and did shed several
times. It's time to say goodbye.
See the on-sale page |
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| August
29 |
Both females did accept
a subadult rat after their delivery.
On the photo you can see the typical balling -posture (better known from Python regius). It is our experience that you only see this behaviour in Corallus h. hortulanus only in the first weeks after birth. |
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| August
28 |
Party time again this
morning... Female number 3 produced a litter of 7 last night. Again no
dead youngsters of unfurtile eggs found. Her pregnancy did last for 231
days (if the first mating on Januari 9 was succesfull)
The size of both litters surprised us...We did expect larger litters because both females are young (5 years), healthy and we did not use them in our 2004 breeding program.
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| August
27 |
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Female number 2 gave birth last night. She had an offspring of 9, all alive and kickin'. No unfurtile eggs found. Her pregnancy did last for 230 days (if the first mating on January 9 was succesfull). What a beautiful colours even before the first shedding !! |
| August
03 |
We found one of the
2005 offspringMorelia virirdis on the bottom of her terrarium coilled
up in this strange way. One of the others had the same behaviour a few
days ago. It stopped spontaneously and that animal started eating one day
later.
If anybody has a suggestion what the reason for this behaviour might be please contact us. |
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| July
30 |
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Two pictures of female
number 2. Left you see her before pregnancy, the right one was made this
week. It clearly shows the changing of colours during pregnancy.
Mating was in January, we expect offspring in September. |
| July
20
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One of our 2003 offspring
Corallus h.. hortulanus died.
We fed the snake last night. She never had an adult mouse before but did not hesitate to accept him. This morning we found her dead with the stomach twice the size of the mouse. She probably died of an perforation ... |
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| June
10 |
The final score:
Morelia viridis produced 23 eggs (not 21 as we first thought). All eggs were furtile. After 55-56 days in the incubator 19 snakes were born . 18 spontaneous and 1 after opening the egg manually. One of the spontaneous born died within an hour. The others are doing well. After opening the last four eggs we found 4 dead but fullgrown snakes. One had an abnormality on his back, the others appeared to be normal. |
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| June
08 |
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What a site to see!!
The counter is on sixteen, including one dead (in the right upper corner). Even the collapsed eggs on top did hatch. If the last five eggs do not hatch
within twelve hours we'll open them manually
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| June
06 |
Over the last few days
the eggs on top collapsed even more. Although the eggs are due, dehydration
can be the reason too. We did not dare to encrease the humidity because
of the good condition of the other eggs. We started worrying but this evening,
after 55 days, the first one showed his beautiful face to the world.
All eggs do look furtile, but some of the top ones are collapsed a lot... |
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| June
03 |
The morelia eggs are
in the incubator now for 52 days. According to the books the incubation
periode is between 50 and 67 days:
(Trutnau 50-55 days, Weier 48 -67 days, Ross 45/50 - 60/65). They should hatch between june 2 and june 18. |
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| May
25 |
The morelia eggs are
in the incubator for 43 days today. The photo (made this morning) shows
that the ones on top start to collapes a bit. Maybe they receive a bit
less moist than the ones on the tissues.
The pregnancy of both female Corallus hortulanus is going wel. Their colour becomes darker by the week (a sign of pregnancy) and they grow well. |
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| May
24 |
The female Anteresia
childreni appeared not to be pragnant afterall. We did see matings
and she stopped eating.... If we keep this group we will let the other
male mate with her next year.
Two of our 2004 offspring Morelia virirdis start changing colour. We noticed a bit of a greenish colour on their head. We are curious how long the change of colour will take; We had animals that changed within the month while others took over half a year to become completely green. |
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| May
05 |
Anteresia childreni is due to lay eggs, but she started eating again. That's not a good sign, ... maybe she's not pregnant afterall? | |
| April
29 |
The morelia eggs in
the incubator are doing nicely.
The complete clutch of 21 eggs grew over the last two weeks. One egg has some mould on it. Not really something that worries me. One day after the removal of the eggs the female accepted a rat. She had 3 feedings over the last two weeks and is doing well.
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| April
12 |
Morelia virirdis
showes brooding behaviour since yesterday morning. Several years ago we
lost a female during the brooding periode so we decided to brood the eggs
artificially in a incubator on 29,7 degrees Celsius and a humidity of 95%.
We removed the female from 21 eggs.
They all look fertile.
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| April
10 |
Morelia viridis was in and out of the laying site for the last several days. Since yesterday evening she stays inside. No brooding behaniour seen |
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| March
27 |
The female Anteresia childrenistopped
eating en grows nicely.
Eggs are expected at the end of april. |
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| March
20 |
Morelia viridis is certainly pregnant. She stopped eating, is growing en her basic colour is changing to a lighter shade of green. She is offered the same laying site as last year: a terra-cotta flowerpot in a washing-up bowl filled with moist vermicullite. Temperature on this spot is 28 degrees Celsius (constantly) | |
| February 21 | Corallus male 05 and
female 21 seperated.
No sexual behaviour seen since introduction on januari 10. Maybe he's to young?? |
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| February 06 | Morelia viridis couple seperated. Several matings seen over the last few weeks. Expecting eggs in april | |
| January
12 |
Morelia viridis couple put together with matings on the same evening. |
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| January
10 |
Corallus male 05 introduced to
female 21.
Both animals are not interested in each other. Anteresia childreni (two males, one female) put together. One male removed within the hour because of fightings. The other male mated with her the same evening. |
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| January
09 |
Corallus
male 15 introduced to female 02. Mating within the hour.
Male 20 follows the good example and is mating with female 03 (see picture). |
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| January
08 |
Corallus male 20 introduced to female 03. Interested in each other but no matings seen | |
| January
01 |
The decision on making a homepage on our corallus group was made. Also we decided which animals would be in the 2005 breeding program |
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