Hello!

As there had been no topic on Oxyuranus microlepidotus I will start with it. My Partner Mario Strasser and me own 1,1 Oxyuranus microlepidotus (CB ´99). Since three years Mario tried to breed them without any success (bad eggs, Incubation got wrong,...). After that he told me to try it and since one year the animals living with me. What can I say? It seems I have more luck with them, our female laid 16 good eggs two weeks ago. Any questions?





Best wishes

Frank

By the way: In this moment (I mean NOW, YET, ...) the taipans are mating again!!!

..........we hope everything is going well, and the babys see the daylight soon !

you guys reserve 1.1 for the reptileman noh?!!!

cheers
Mario

Nun gut Mario , ich denke wir können uns ja auch sicher einig werden in dem wir das eine oder andere mit dir tauschen ! Oder was meinst du !

Beste Grüsse,

Mario

Hi Mario!

We take preorders, but I think it´s better to talk about on a private base. If anyone else is interested, please send an message to me.

Best regards

Frank

i am sure of that mario!

cheers
Mario

Hi Frank and Mario.

As I checked your first post, time of hatching should be here soon...
Could you please give us some update how does eggs look like at the moment? I hope everything is ok with them... Can wait to see pictures of fresh hatched microlepidotus babies in near future...

All the best,
Peter P.

Update:

As far as I could find information in literature, the incubation should take approximately 73 days, so we still have nearly three weeks to wait for the hatching. I couldn´t find any information on the incubation temperature and cicumstances, but I incubate them at 27,5-28,3°C on coarse grained Vermiculite. At present 15 eggs still look very good, one egg gone bad after 30 days of incubation. The egg above it has a little mildew spot, so maybe the bad egg has had mildew as well and died out of it (I couldn´t see, because they are stuck together in a group of 8 eggs, the other eggs are all seperated). I treat the mildew spot with imaverol every forth day and since that it doesn´t grow any more. Hopefully it stays like that! The eggs grew very well, they are huge, like big chicken eggs!
I don´t know what else to say, but if anything happens I keep you guys informed.

Best regards

Frank

Ok Frank, thanks for update...

We are incubating eggs of cannies at approx. 29 degrees, and they normally hatch after 60 days. So that`s why I asked you for update now, counting it is the same with microlepidotuses... We will see, maybe hatching is closer as you expect it Anyway, I keep our fingers crossed for good remaining part of incubation!

All the best,
Peter P.

We incubate both of our Oxyuranus here (microlepidotus & scutellatus) at approx 30degC and both take around 60 days to hatch at that temp. You can get away with temps as low as 27degC with both species but incubation times can extend to 80-85 days. I'll have to post some shots of last seasons hatchling Taipans. We have slightly banded versions of both.

Cheers
Nathan

HI Nathan !

Do you have photos of them ?!

cheers,

Mario

What a nice day !!!!!!!!! The babys are hatching at this moment

Congrats to you and Frank.
Yesterday I called Frank in another matter and there was no hatching in sight.
And now it's time.

Kind of cryptic... Last year I called a friend waiting for his V.gumprechti's litter and one day after the call, the babies came...
Now the Oxyuranus...
Think I should work as an oracle

Hope I see you soon at "Casa Frank".

Hi Stefan !

Because I ´m not longer in love with Claudia it will be difficult to see me there such often as used. But we ´ll see us for sure !

cheers,

Mario

As Mario said, two days ago was the big day.
Ladies and Gentlemen we VERY proudly present our first bred Oxyuranus microlepidotus!





The hatchlings are HUGE, about 45cm (some even larger) and totally nonaggressive. I don´t know what else to say, I´m to happy at this moment.

Best regards

Frank

Gratuliere ganz herzlich! Ein toller Erfolg!

Gruss, Wolfgang

Amazing pictures and event, Frank and Mario!!!
Huge congratulation from Slovakia, babies looks very nice and healthy... As other eggs are "cut" already as well, I keep my fingers crossed for successful hatching of remaining babies as well... Hope gender ratio will be good as you expect...
I can understand your feeling, it`s very rare occassion for sure!!!

All the best,
Peter P.

Great congratulations from Hamburg!

Regards, Michael

Thanks to all of you for the congrats. As you can imagine we are jumping around all the time ;-)
7 eggs didn´t hatch yet, as they are in a different box in the incubator near the door, where the temperature is a little bit lower than in the back. A couple of minutes ago one of them got slits, so the others should follow within a day. Fingers crossed.
As far as I could see the first hatchings should be 4,4, so hopefully it will be nearly the same with the others.
In the next days I will make some more photos of them and put them in here.

Best regards

Frank

well ....

WHAT CAN I SAY?

CONGRATULATIONS Guys! thats just beautiful!
thanks for the pictures! please keep us updated!



cheers
Mario

Congratulations! Well done
Good luck raising the 'little' snakes.

Cheers,
Harold

excellent! very excellent!

Thanks for the congrats!

Update:

The last seven Oxyuranus hatched three days ago. As the others they look very healthy. I´m very busy at the moment, but I´ll try to make some new and better photos during the week and post them in here.

Best regards

Frank

This has been an interesting topic, very good that someone in Europe has success breeding those. How is the feeding going with those?
If i win on the lottery, i might try to get a few

Hi Stefan,

all juveniles started feeding from the first time I offered food to them, they are really easy to raise. It´s not more difficult than keeping cornsnakes.
Please let me know when you get the lottery jackpot, I think we can arrange a deal...

Best regards

Frank