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[willy]

Hi folks, It's been a long time since I last posted anywhere but a lot has happed since then marriage, redundancy, starting a new business and a new baby on the way, not necessarily in that order

Last year my two thrasops mated and produced eggs. Sadly these started to keel over during the incubation. The last two turned bad after 55 to 60 days. After dissecting one it revealed a fully formed thrasops.

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Well this year the Thasops mated again and she laid 7 eggs. Again the eggs have been keeling over and now on day 48 of incubation I have two eggs left.

So if anyone has any suggestions as to where I maybe going wrong, please feel free to post them. I will probably be pipping the egg around day 56/57, hopefully this will help.

I have been incubating them at 80% humidity and at a constant 30 degrees.

[Mwoxy]

Hi Willy, no expert on hatching Thrasops but my gut feel is the temperature is too high.

I hatched a couple of Thrasops a while back, from a gravid import. I incubated them at 28C, normal vermiculite mix, ie squeezed until no water came out.

Good luck and congrats on getting repeated success.

Cheers

Mark

[willy]

Cheers Mark.

I am reducing the temperature at the moment.

Good to here from someone who has experience with these guys. Just a couple of quick questions, how long was the incubation for your eggs, i am guessing around 50 to 60 day mark and did you pip the eggs?

Willy.

[Mwoxy]

Hi Willy,

I will have to trawl through (read find!!) my records.

I got the females in Hamm September '99, hatched 01-01-2001!! Off the top of my head I think they were around the 70 day mark. I keep a number of arboreal colubrids and they all seem to have longer than the typical colubrid 65 days

Once one pipped I pipped the remainder, one contained twins which were very small and did not survive.

I have a short article on Thrasops somewhere, I'll dig it out for you.

Cheers

Mark

[willy]

Thanks for that Mark that would be fantastic. And thanks for the benefit of your experience.

Willy.

[Mwoxy]

Have pm'd article to you plus soem other stuff.

I note that the article quotes incubating at 30C but maintaining the adults at 25C!! I find that rather strange.

Cheers

Mark

[willy]

Cheers for that Mark. Certainly an interesting article.

I will certainly keep you posted on how the last two eggs are doing.

Thanks again,

Willy.