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05-10-2007, 06:51 PM
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"First shed, A Success"
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: PA
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Record for longest gestation period?
I had my flame in with my albino male the last two weeks of december.I got four babies all alive today.Over four months and 10 days.I thought for sure I was getting slugs.
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05-11-2007, 04:00 AM
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Ophiuchus rhea
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Re: Record for longest gestation period?
wow
that is long can't wait to see the babies
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05-11-2007, 04:04 AM
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"Preparing For Fourth shed"
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Re: Record for longest gestation period?
Garter snakes store sperm, in captivity they are recorded to have given birth several years after the male has been separated from the female! I suppose its a preservattion thing, ( "I'll just store some of this in case all the men dissapear!")
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05-11-2007, 09:24 AM
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Brother Snake
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Re: Record for longest gestation period?
Hey that's great!
 That is an awful long time, are the babies unusually large or something that they had to "cook" extra long? Very interested to see what that coupling has produced as well.Roy
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05-11-2007, 04:52 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: Record for longest gestation period?
About 120 days is the upper end of a "normal" gestation range if the temperature is low, but it IS unusually long for T. sirtalis. Do you recall the most common (modal) temperature during gestation?
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