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



First egg coming out



Second egg



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



cheers, Tom

Hello Tom,
great eggs congratulation to the nice clutch
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

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

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

Cheers,
Peter

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









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:

Beautiful female ! is that a keeper ?

damn!!!! that is one breath taking snake!

A definite keeper in my book! Congrats

Thank you guys. Yes i shall be keeping this particular female, although there are several others from the clutch which are almost as nice

Heres a couple more pics:

Very nice red colour on the back and tail. All the best with them.

WOW Tom!! those are some beautifull snakes!!! I love the whole pattern and collour on them. keep posting some updates on them..