Do you think this female is pregnant? I hope so.

Hi Patrick,

I would say yes, definately. She looks exactly the same as both my female Naja kaouthia did last year when gravid. I see she is also lying with the back half of her body under the heat source, another positive sign!

cheers,

Tom

Wish you a lot of healthy babies.

Regards, BKK

Hi Patrick,

Have you tried palpating her ventral side ? I've never seen a gravid Elapid but in Colubrids, in advanced pregnancy, if you just tail a snake and look at it, the individual eggs should be quite clear on her ventral side and you don't even have to palpate...

Anyway, I hope she is pregnant and I hope you have a nice healthy clutch and babies !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=hciGjWY-z10

Ok. she was pregnant.
I got home from work last night and look what i found....

Very nice Patrick.
Congratulations !!
Good luck with the incubation

[quote="Patrick Waffek"]Ok. she was pregnant.
I got home from work last night and look what i found....

Ha Ha, sure they aren't white droppings!

Congrats, mum is stunning, how many eggs? first clutch for her?

Congrats on those eggs!!

How many were there in total?

Hey guys.
Yes it was her first clutch. She layed 24 eggs in total.
19 good and 5 slugs.
Now waiting till the end of february...

Good luck!!!! Thats wonderful:)

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Congrats! Good luck with them!

Really nice. Stunning mum.

Best of luck with the incubation.

/M

The first baby kaouthias hatched today. Nice little pinkies.

well - congrats, Patrick!

very short incubation period - 48 days (or actually 1 - 2 days less if we take in account that they remain a while in their shells after cutting off) - is that right?
What temperatures did you use?
Very interesting - i never managed to get Najas out before 63 - 65 days....as you wrote you'd have to wait until the end of February - i even would have expended that to the beginning of March.

best regards
Peter

Hello Peter,

this was the first time i incubate kouthia eggs, so i looked at the schedule from the book of Günther Köhler - "Inkubation von Reptilieneiern", which says 48-56 days with temeratures at 29-30 degrees celsius.
But my main projects is to breed reticulated pythons so i put the eggs into the incubator for my retic eggs, which is at 30-32 degree celsius.
In periods of some days i looked at the eggs and they seem to be good. So I thought this must be the right parameters for incubation.
Now i know it´s ok.

Thanks Peter.

Nice! Congrats Patrick!

Great work Patrick, i am expecting eggs from one of my females any day now.

Peter Zürcher wrote:

well - congrats, Patrick! very short incubation period - 48 days (or actually 1 - 2 days less if we take in account that they remain a while in their shells after cutting off) - is that right? What temperatures did you use? Very interesting - i never managed to get Najas out before 63 - 65 days....as you wrote you'd have to wait until the end of February - i even would have expended that to the beginning of March.

Last year my 2 Naja kaouthia clutches started hatching out at 47 days and 50 days. These were also incubated at 29-30C

realy nice mate good luck with razing them upp..
gr jorg

congrats Patrick!!!!

Congrats Patrick,

Good looking hatchlings. My first clutch of kaouthia this year have only been incubating for 20 days, so I have a while to go.

Peter Z: Last year my 2 clutches of kaouthia hatched out in 64 and 65 days, as you stated is your experience, and I incubated at 26.6 - 27.2 C.

Randy

Very nice ! congratz !

That is great brother! The one looks to have some abberant markings? My clutch was laid a day before yours I have been incubating around 28.8c - 30.0c I am expecting some pipping in the next week or so. I have my fingers crossed for a good success rate with the 13 eggs in there now. Congrats with a great clutch!
Joe