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Posted by Dean Alessandrini on April 15, 2002 at 16:02:40:
In Reply to: Fighty should say flighty, sorry for the typo. posted by Big J on April 15, 2002 at 13:54:37:
Big J,
I have a single adult pair that I successfully bred this year for the first time. I am currently incubating a clutch of 11 (HUGE) fertile eggs.
If Drymarchon are like cobras,
Then Spilotes are like mambas.
They are agile, fast, UNBELIEVABLY good climbers. They even will look at you and flick their tongue out very SLOWLY and hold it out there….it’s like they are saying “ go on, mess with me”. Mambas do the same thing. ( only the threat is taken a little more seriously)
My female is a 5 yr old cb, (she’s 8’) the male is a LTC import. Mine, like yours, are mostly bluff. They threaten, rattle, puff, flatten, and even fake-strike. The only time I was ever bitten was by my female when she was close to laying and really didn’t want to be messed with.
I was unable to find any good breeding data…and…if Bill Love’s comments in the June issue of Reptiles are correct, there are only a few people who have successfully bred them, most of the cb babies available being from gravid import females.
I basically guessed and treated them like boas or pythons. At the end of my Drymarchon cooling season (January) I began to decrease their nighttime lows and shortened the days. Nighttime drops went no lower than about 69-70, with only 8 hours of light, and basking lights clicked on for several hours during the day.
They went off feed almost right away and by the end of Jan. they were breeding. I put them together during the warm part of the day, and misted the cage until it was almost wet.
11 fertile eggs were laid on March 25. I am incubating them at a very humid 80-83 deg.
We’ll see !!
Dean Alessandrini
