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18-Sep-04, 06:03 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-03 Location: Brisbane | | |
Hi All,
What is the largest clutch you know of for a species.
My mate's bredli had 42 eggs last season - i havent heard of bigger.
My spotted this season looks like she will have a bumper year - whats the record for spotteds? I have heard 18.
Cheers
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18-Sep-04, 06:13 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: NTH QLD | | | | Mate of mine had 45 eggs from a large coastal,43 hatched and 2 appeared to be hypo but died..
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18-Sep-04, 06:29 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 33  | | | | Several books say diamonds lay up to 54 eggs, but the largest diamond clutch I've had was 24 eggs.
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18-Sep-04, 06:33 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney | | | | Ad,
My largest clutch of spotteds is 23 |
18-Sep-04, 07:44 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gosford | | | | Ad, my largest spotted clutch was 25, but this season so far only 21. Bredls is 33, but I have heard of 48 recorded by Graeme Gow.
Diamonds I have had 42. Olives 25. Coastal Taipans 25. Common Bluetongue 29. All my other species are just average size clutches. |
18-Sep-04, 09:50 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Sydney | | | | Are you serious Bob, 29 bluetounges in one litter?? She must have been as round as a basket ball! |
18-Sep-04, 10:20 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gosford | | | | Splitmore, very serious. I actually showed her to Glen Shea at a AHS meeting. He reckoned he had never seen one as large. After giving birth she still weighed just over a kilo. All 29 young were average size as if they were from a smaller litter. Weights and measurements were taken of all the young and the data given to Glen for his research. |
18-Sep-04, 11:31 PM
|  | Regular Member | | | | | apparently someone in vic got 51 vics but 26 died and 25 are now almost yearlyings this is from a very respected breeder that breeds alot of different morelia's
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19-Sep-04, 09:38 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-04 Location: Adelaide | | | | What would be the average clutch size for the following snakes?
Bredli?
Murray Darling?
BHP's?
Diamonds?
Thx
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19-Sep-04, 10:54 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gosford | | | | Stiffler, the average clutch sizes would be something like these
Bredls 20
Murray Darlings 20
BHP's 8-10
Diamonds 20 |
19-Sep-04, 04:23 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 33 | | | | I have Water dragons that lay 30 eggs, but this is three clutches of 10 eggs in one season. Does that count ?
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So shedding dead skin, working true colours loose
Renewing the red in their eyes
They coil like sin within thinning excuse
Cold-blooded to sharpen the lies.
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19-Sep-04, 04:25 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 33 | | | | Three clutches from the one female, that is.
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So shedding dead skin, working true colours loose
Renewing the red in their eyes
They coil like sin within thinning excuse
Cold-blooded to sharpen the lies.
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19-Sep-04, 05:03 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: G>F>A>C AFRO!! | | | | i was told by a guy i know that he used to get 54 eggs out of a female diamond python each year. Mind you this was a 10ft diamond python wild caught. |
19-Sep-04, 06:28 PM
| | | | a guy I know had one hundred rough scaled python eggs.
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19-Sep-04, 07:34 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-04 Location: Adelaide | | | | So how would people rate the following pythons for easiest to breed. Give each snake a score from 1-5. 1 being worst and 5 being easiest.
Murray Darlings
Bredli
Diamond
BHP
Coastals
Thx
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