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Hi, Connie/Hurley. I would have sent you a private email, but I thought I'd share this with everyone, since I think my results are significant. First, some background. Earlier this year (early summer), Connie and I discussed a possible way to prevent sperm retention. I wanted to breed two...

I have a clutch of relatively new hatchlings (dad is a pastel ghost motley and mom is a normal motley het ghost). Some are definitely anerys and one is a lavender-colored ghost. However, one of the others is a light gray — too light to be an anery — so I'm assuming it too is a ghost. Can...

This question is primarily for Carol, but anyone with a lot of experience with Miami-phase hatchlings, please feel free to chime in. This year I bred a nice Miami-phase female (silver background, red saddles, thick black borders) to a Miami-phase male het hypo (thinner borders, with more of a...

A friend sent this photo to me this morning -- spotted this "little piggy" in a bush near this house. Location -- Franklin, Tennessee. I'm guessing the snake had just found a new food source and had stuffed itself (that, or it's very gravid!). Does anyone know what kind of snake this is?

This morning, I found that two of my females were double-clutching. I watched both females lay the last eggs of these clutches, so the photos below are of VERY freshly laid eggs. One female laid a clutch of 11 eggs; the other laid a clutch of 6 eggs, 2 of which are clearly slugs (darker in...

Perhaps I should rephrase that into "What SHOULD het bloods look like?" I have a clutch hatching right now from breeding a bloodred female (one of the old-fashioned looking ones -- deep red/maroon with a mostly white belly) to an un-known hypo anery motley male (bought as a pastel ghost male...

Has anyone produced an ultra anery yet, and if so, does it look any different from a hypo A anery (i.e., a ghost)? Any photos?

Had one of those "perfect timing" moments this morning, when my bloodred female laid a second clutch of 6 eggs. She laid her first clutch of 14 eggs on 5/1, 68 days ago, which means they should be pipping any day now. Anyway, I thought it might be interesting (especially for newbies) to show...

Over the past couple of weeks, I've been "documenting" all my snakes with photos for the American Cornsnake Registry (what a great job Serp and Connie are doing, and what a great asset to all of us!). Some of my snakes were so squirmy and uncooperative that I recruited my husband to help. He's...

I guess I missed something somewhere back in a thread, but now I keep seeing references to GBB. Would someone please spell that out for me so I'll understand the reference? Thanks.

Does anyone know what the shortest possible gestation time period is for a female corn (from breeding to egg-laying)? I bred a female on 4/29 (she'd never been exposed to a male before), and she appears to be in the process of laying eggs. She laid one slug a week ago (May 19), another slug...

Hi, Connie. I remember seeing a thread recently about how you suggested a possible way to avoid 2nd-clutch eggs being fertilized by retained sperm from the sire of the 1st clutch (if you're breeding the female to a different male for the second clutch). I believe you said something about...

Hi, Rich. Please go to the Eggs/Breeding forum and check the thread "Breeding same bloodline." There's some weirdo (dead_poetic_300, supposed age of 13) talking about snake "dinks" and another weirdo (Haste the day, supposed age of 14) responded talking about snakes with 50 dinks each...

I need some advice from experienced breeders who've had to aspirate the contents of a stuck, infected egg. What is the best antibiotic to give the snake if she's at high risk for infection due to egg contents leaking out into her oviduct? Early last Friday, May 13, my anery female laid 8 good...

OK, so I asked a question in a previous thread about how long a female corn continues to produce "come & get me" pheromones after she's been inseminated at least once. No one really gave me a definite answer, so I went to trusty old Google. I found a fascinating news article about research...

...people who deliberately run over snakes. Just got back from the barn, and my day is absolutely ruined. As I was driving down the nice country road, about 200 feet behind a car up ahead, I saw the car swerve into the lane for on-coming traffic (no one was coming) and then swerve back...

This topic came up at a reptile store yesterday, when we were trying to determine whether one of their adult females was gravid or not (history of the snake was basically unknown, but she'd possibly been with an adult male). When palpating her underside, I could feel some small lumps, but they...

This past Saturday morning, my bloodred female began laying her clutch of eggs. After a couple of hours, I could count 12 eggs from the bottom of her nesting box, and I thought she was through. So, I picked her up to make sure she'd laid them all, but I found that she still had two to go. So...

Hi, Rich. Is this site somehow set to log a person off if they've walked away from their computer for a while? This has happened to me several times in the past couple of weeks. It also just happened when I took about 45 minutes to compose a reply to a thread. I was logged in when I first...

This topic came up at a reptile store yesterday, when we were trying to determine whether one of their adult females was gravid or not (history of the snake was basically unknown). When palpating her underside, I could feel some small lumps, but they were not big enough to feel like...