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Sole Survivor Boot Key Hatchling

This is the mother, Scarlett. I bought her from CS member Byron DeStouet, and she was bred by CS member Graham Criglow (Strange Cargo Exotics).
 

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This is the dad, Phoenix. Same source.
 

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These are the grandparents. These guys come from Boot Key, which is a Middle Florida Key. The city of Marathon is very close. The grandparents were collected there. Other clutches produced by this pair have hatched _really_ cool aberrant patterns. I hope to get a few of those, some day, although the normal pattern is just so perfect!
 

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This is Scarlett's belly. Cool, huh??
 

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Congratulations on the baby, Nanci. If you breed Scarlett next year, won't she still only be a 2 year old though?
 
Yes she will. But she's going to ovulate anyway, so I may as well get fertile eggs. She'll easily be 300 grams by then, and she's in super-healthy, muscular shape.
 
Plus- she laid the first clutch two months ago. She weighed 62 grams post-lay. She's 152 now- she eats three hoppers in less than five minutes! I have no doubt she will easily recover from laying next year, as a more mature snake. She recovered to more than her gravid weight in three meals.
 
I love their look!! Such nice creamy orange against a silvery tinted background.. They are gorgeous!

Hooray for the sweet little baby.. S/he is so intriguing, can't wait to see what s/he looks like after s/he sheds.

*fingers crossed for a girl! :smash:
 
I'm still surprised you won't give her another year to mature before breeding her again, but that's just personal choice. They really are beautiful corns, such a different look to them. Everything about them, the subdued colouring, their tummies, their lovely eyes, is just so perfect.
 
Janine, I don't think Nanci has a choice -- Scarlett will lay slugs if she doesn't mate, and the slugs will take just as much out of her. She's a great eater, and I imagine Nanci will spend all winter feeding & exercising to have her in tip-top condition.

Nanci, this baby is adorable.
 
Thanks for more pics on the adult pair, Nanci. I see silvergreyoliveyelloworange. Zero black. I think Even BEFORE this belly shot, I've been thinking Boot Keys deserve to be their own subspecies.
Hey, just a passing friendly musing. I'm not starting a big debate here. Nanci has posted pics and discussed the morphology and natural history of these snakes elsewhere.
(That they are not quite (at all) run of the mill corns, their undocumented reproductive habits may not quite fit the conventional mold.)
I love to read and learn about things I don't know about. For example, if you look at google maps or google earth about Boot Key,...you'd wonder how and where snakes managed to live on those sandy little islands.
 
Because in my limited experience, once a snake (my snakes, anyway) ovulates and lays eggs, they proceed to do so the following years. Maybe I am scarred for life by my experience with Cherry last year- with the 28 slugs and the retained slug and all that. I don't care to ever repeat that experience. It's very sad to see snakes take so much out of their bodies, laying infertile eggs, for no reason. With nothing to show for it.

I wonder if that happens in nature.
 
I've only had it happen once in five years of breeding and I don't think its very common. Best of luck with breeding her, I'd love to get some of those.
 
Actually, from what I've heard and experienced, it can be quite common. I had an Anery spit out a bunch of slugs on me this year and she wasn't bred.
I've also talked to multiple other persons that have/had the same experience, along with Soderberg. He recommends that if they are going to ovulate and lay anyway - you might as well breed them and get viable eggs out of it.

Wanted to note that obviously this would be within reason, meaning knowing that the snake will lay anyway instead of re-absorb the eggs and that the snake isn't like 5 months old!
I've also heard that viable eggs are easier for the snake to lay than slugs, but I don't remember where I've heard it or how true it is.
 
I didn't realise it was that common. I haven't had it happen, except this year. I'll definitely be more aware in the future.
 
I have two adult females that now double clutch on their own every year even if they were not bred so it happens. I can't wait to mate my Boot Key's guy this up coming season looking forward to some bright red/yellow S. FL mutts.
 
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