froot wrote:Excellent Snakepeter, I wish you all the success with the eggs. Anything else you have in the incubator?
As we have middle of winter over here in Europe, there is nothing else in incubator now... I am sure it will not last too long in this way
Yesterday we found another surprise, which we were expecting, but in month or two later... Hope you will not mind I will post pictures here, especially when I started this threat.
In beginning of September last year we imported 6 pcs of Cryptelytrops fasciatus from Indonesia. There were 5 females and single male among them. 3 females we sold to good friend, and kept remaining for us. Unfortunatelly, one our female died in few weeks, she had problems with shedding, and no help from us solved it....
4 days before Christmas one of female over our friend gave a birth to 9 babies! As we had an agreement, that half of possible babies will be ours, it was very possitive information for us. At that time we checked our remaining female, as it looked like she could be also gravid. My friend Marek told me she is not feeding few weeks already, just killing a mice.
After New Year we moved her with male to new enclosure, and were prepared to wait a month or two in hope of getting some babies as well.
Yesterday morning, when we came to work, big surprise was waiting for us. Female was almost finish with giving birth to babies!!! It really surprised us, but made very happy as well
After removing of babies from females cage we counted 9 little babies. I left work sooner, but Marek called me later that female gave birth to one more baby, but he didn`t move it from females cage yet. "Nice", I told to myself. Today I was searching for this baby in cage, and to my surprise I found 2 babies instead of one! So final (I think I can say it now already
count is 11 alive babies, and 1 bad egg.
This species isn`t very colorful, but is very rarely kept in captivity. Breeding is really rare occasion, although we can say for sure both females were mated in wild. Only record I found in from Dallas Zoo (2001), where they got 8 babies. Pair copulated in late December, and babies were born on 1st of July...
Here are some pictures which could hopefully interest you...
Female 3 days before giving a birth:
Baby with adult male:
Portrait of babies borned over us:
This pictures shows how different babies can be. We have brown and red adult females, and are curious if this green/yellow ones can keep their color till maturity... We are happy about this breeding, as we plan to hold more males and try to make a real captive breeding in the future...
Babies on pictures are from female over our friend, credit for photo goes to him - Tomas Bublik.
Best regards,
Peter