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29-Jan-06, 12:19 PM
| | | Breeding Records of BHP's
I am chasing any information off people about the length and weight of a BHP when it is considered to be mature and able to breed.
The main attributres i am after is to find out what the smallest breeding lenght, weight and age would be?
Also if any one has any data on an average size for a hatchling that would be appreciated.
Dave www.reedysreptiles.com |
29-Jan-06, 01:04 PM
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29-Jan-06, 01:17 PM
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29-Jan-06, 01:40 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Jun-05 Location: Sydney NSW | | | | 1170mm male minimum
1200mm female minimum
45cm - 68cm hatchling size
65g - 106g hatchling weight
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29-Jan-06, 03:41 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-05 Location: Darwin | | | | Well hello Dave, good to see you here mate. :wink: |
29-Jan-06, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by JandC_Reptiles
1170mm male minimum
1200mm female minimum
45cm - 68cm hatchling size
65g - 106g hatchling weight
| Have you bred them around the 1200mm mark? If so, how many eggs? What age were these animals? |
31-Jan-06, 09:40 AM
| | | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Brisbane | | | | With the 1200mm minimum. is this from a locality that is smaller than the usual growth sizes? But if so Woohoo as mine are past the 5ft mark and I was debating wether to try and breed or not. |
31-Jan-06, 10:10 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-03 Location: Brisbane | | | | If only the math were so simple.
Bhps will reach 1200mm in 6 months or less - must be able to breed them then?
People tout 18months as a breeding age - Can anyone verify this first hand?
Hands up those that have failed to breed them at 18mths. |
31-Jan-06, 11:01 AM
| | | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Brisbane | | | | 30 months old and five and half foot sounds a reasonable size to try though.
Though I did fail at breeding a 18month old spotted male with a 30 month old spotted male. No luck there |
31-Jan-06, 11:10 AM
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Though I did fail at breeding a 18month old spotted male with a 30 month old spotted male. No luck there
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31-Jan-06, 11:11 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane | | | | geeze, cheezy subject. i don't personally keep BHP's but i have mates that do, and i have heard mixed results, i know a fellow that bred a male at 18 months, around 1400m, but he had been powerfeeding it rabbits, and it was a very girthy python for 1400mm. don't know about females though. i know that in antaresia, if you breed them young, you'll often reduce there egg count for life, eg- childreni bred @ 18 months may only have 8 eggs, and this reduced count will continue for life.
i have also heard of people not being able to breed BHPs till they are 4-5yrs. so the precedent is all over the shop.
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31-Jan-06, 11:23 AM
| | | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Brisbane | | | | An ongoing work in progress with regards to the spotteds. After that try last year I am experimenting by using the younger male (will be 30months) with a female. The trial is quite groundbreaking I know but I will see if it bears results. |
22-Nov-06, 10:00 AM
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22-Nov-06, 12:21 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: QLD | | | | Neil Sonnoman has bred bhps at 18 months of age.
They dont have to be real big, around the 4-5 foot mark.
Hers some info on egg and hatchling weight from 2 clutches i bred a few years back.
clutch 1, eggs,- 1 x 255gr, 1 x 240gr, 1 x 260gr, 1 x 233gr, and i slug 100gr.
hatchlings,- 1 x 134gr, 1 x 152gr, 1 x 148gr, 1 x 162gr.
clutch 2, eggs,-3 x 202gr, 2 x 198gr, 1 x 200gr, 1 x 196gr, 1 x 195gr.
hatchlings,- 1 x 100gr, 1 x 116gr, 1 x 118gr, 1 x 120gr, 1 x 121gr, 1 x 122gr, 1 x 126gr, 1 x 128gr. |
22-Nov-06, 01:34 PM
| | | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Brisbane | | |  an old thread revived. I saw the BHPs mating in the season just gone but doesn't look like eggs coming, the females were just a bit shy of 3kg in weight. My female spotted is looking to pop any day now......
TB how big was the female that had clutch 1? | | |
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