My first ever breeding. I've got those wonderful Lampropeltis zonata from Peter Zürcher at 1.1.2009 when they were about half a year.
This is their first offspring, sticking his nose into the world right now (photo is a few minutes old). Let's see what the two other eggs will show me hopefully soon!

A great moment ... enjoy it

I am!!!
Thanks Fabian!

Congrat Guenter!
But you are not on the good forum LOLLLLLL
I'm sure you know this one:

http://www.venomland.net/f51-your-others

Haha, count it on my nervousness, Jean!
Maybe an admin could move my thread.

ok, we forgive you LOLLLLLL

Congratulations, Guenter.
No one's more happy than me about your success.
What an entrance in snake breeding!
Looking forward to see more close shots.....and fingers crossed for the others.
Kind regards
Peter

Would not have worked without Your valuable hints, Peter!
A couple of days ago I thought, the egg has died, because it lost volume. I came home right now, had my usual view to the eggs and ... surprise!

And I bet You can imagine how the kids and Claudia were smiling!

Any things I must take into account right now? Usual temperature (25-27 C) is ok?

Two from three eggs finally succeeded in wonderful, little San Diego Mountain Kingsnakes. Sadly the third egg, which looked best of all three eggs to me, did not hatch. It seemed to have died a few days ago.

Schedule:

In October especially the female stopped feeding form her own. Until then she always was a good feeder, so I was a bit surprised. In November also the male stopped. Peter told me to hibernate them which I did for about 6 weeks in December/January at about 12 degrees in my basement. I provided them with a small basin of water and kept them rather dark (covering the enclosure).

I slowly raised the temperature in January until it reached the 25 degrees (room temperature im my working room because the computers there produce a lot of heat). After another week I shut on the lamp in the enclosure to get their usual 27-28 degrees and tried to feed them which worked immediately.

After a short while the male began to show interest for the female. I did not watch them mating, but the female got fatter and after a shed it layed three eggs on April 20th 2011. I incubated them at 28 degrees (27-29 - my "incubator" was selfmade, thanks Peter for the hints how to do it!) despite the eggs looked a bit deformed and yellowish (not bright white as I hoped).

On saturday June 11th the first one started to hatch - surprising again because I thought it would last maybe one or two weeks more. The second one hatched a day later.

Photos will follow. Hopefully I get them to eat, because from all I heard from Peter, those L. zonata pulchra are not easy to get to feed on mice.

BTW.: The mother of the youngstes recently showed aggressive behaviour against the male, so I had to separate them for the first time since I own them. And she has appetite like hell - let's see what is coming up here.