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The New Couple!

hartsock

hartsock

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Just picked these guys up at the herp show in Hamburg, Pa yesterday. :crazy02: Seller said they have just come out of brumation and are ready for breeding. Once she gets a few meals in her I am going to give them a try. He said that they were successful last year and she had 8 eggs which 6 hatched. Is that a good number? These will be my first attempt at breeding. I am taking a chance at what he told me was true, but even if not successful, I love the look of them. Never saw a Creamsicle up close till I ran across these. Here is the female and for some reason it isn't letting me upload the male, I will try to post him in a separate post in this thread.
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Thanks, I saw pics of creamsicles before and didn't really pay much attention to them. But when I saw those on the table, I knew I had to have them. Most of my other snakes, other than the snow corn and the normal corn have dark colors (even the normal corn's red is a dark red) and I wanted something that jumped out at you. These do the trick for me! I just wish I had thought to ask the guy about the clutch from last year to see what all they produced.
 
Yeah, I prefer the orange over the red too. I have a young cream and he is super bright, I can't wait until he is adult to see how he will look.

Surprise hatchlings will be fun:)
 
The male looks like an okay size to breed---but that female looks awfully small to be 'proven'.
 
I'm just going to have to echo what the others have said...

How large is that female? I really don't think that either of them are ready to be bred..

Neither of them look any older than 2 - 2.5 years old. :shrugs: You said that they were bred last year, correct? If so, I'm surprised that the female was able to pull through. But then again, the pictures may just portray them as being smaller than they actually are. Still, I would probably hold off at least another year until you breed them.

Just my 2 cents. :)

Lisa
 
My female is about 42" long and I am not sure about her weight. I haven't wanted to mess with them much until they get used to the new home; however, they don't seemed over stressed out. I can open the tank and get in there to mess with the water dish or use temp probe and she doesn't seem to mind it at all. I need to dig out my shipping scales and see how much she weighs, but I was waiting to do that until I feed her on Tuesday. I know she feels pretty heavy and solid. I am planning to check everything out before attempting to breed them and have been researching what to do. The guy told me they were close to 4 years old, she had her first clutch last year, eight eggs -- 6 good ones. Now I didn't just fall off the turnip truck and believe everything he said, I know there are probably many "proven" pairs that are sold at herp shows that have never mated, so I am approaching this with caution. But even if I need to wait a year, I'll be patient because I just love these creamsicles. Is there a problem with having a year off? In other words, if they did have a clutch last year and they aren't paired this year, will that cause any problems when I got to breed them next year?
 
Nope, if a pair isn't bred for a year or two, it doesn't affect them at all. If anything, it allows the female to gain more weight and become larger so that she is able to produce a greater number of eggs! :)

Lisa
 
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