PNG Taipan clutch

Finally, 11 big eggs have arrived, this was 19 days after the females pre lay shed. She was offered a nest box but she decided to push all the substrate to one side and lay on the floor of the vivarium.

The happy couple

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First egg coming out

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Second egg

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And a shot of 10 eggs, just before the last one was laid

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cheers, Tom

Hello Tom,
great eggs congratulation to the nice clutch Smile

How many time past from the copulation to the clutch laying ?
Is it your first clutch of the female ,how old and long the pair is ?
Keep my fingers crossed for your incubation,
Greets Ralph

Thanks Ralph,

This is the females second clutch, she laid 6 infertile eggs last year but that was not my breeding and not my male.

I put this pair together on the 30th october 2009, and they copulated regularly until i split them up around the 20th of November.

Both the male and female are around 5.5ft in length, and were CB in 2007.

cheers, Tom

nice clutch Tom.. hope that they will hatch for you.. allthough I suggest you start searching for capable keepers for the babies Very Happy

A great accomplishment I say Tom.
Well done.
I can but hope to work with some one day when my setups are 110%.

NiekHofman wrote:: nice clutch Tom.. hope that they will hatch for you.. allthough I suggest you start searching for capable keepers for the babies

Hi Niek,

Yes, the babies will only be sold to people with experience working with fast elapids. Half the clutch shall be going to a friend here in the UK, and i will be in no rush the move the rest on. Smile

cheers, Tom

Hi Tom,

congratulation, eggs are looking very good. I am sure you will hatch them without problems. Am very curious what sex ratio you will get, as we have always more females as males, even if we keep higher temperature during incubation...

Cheers,
Peter

Thank you Peter, i'll keep you informed with what sexes i get out of the clutch. What temperatures did you incubate your eggs at? Mine are being incubated at 28.5-29C.

cheers, Tom

Tom,

we use approx. the same temperature for incubation. Result of our last clutch, which hatched approx. 2 months ago was 5 males and 11 females from clutch of 16 eggs. So far it was the biggest clutch we had, and as some of you know, we had quite a few of them already during last 4-5 years Smile

Cheers,
Peter

These guys started hatching yesterday, only one is out the egg so far but several have pipped

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cheers, Tom

Congratulations Tom

I find cannis are majestically, elegant and powerful, they have everything what a elapid must have. Good luck with the youngsters.

Christoph

I agree with Christoph they are at the top as far as Elapids go in my opinion. CONGRATS !!

Now that they have all shed, heres a photo of one of the females from this clutch:

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