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    T. radix Ranch guidofatherof5's Avatar
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    Passing Slugs

    This Ranch female T.radix gave birth to 8 normal babies yesterday. She also passed a few slugs.

    Sorry about the typo in the title. Duh, Passing.


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    re: Passing Slugs

    Congrats on the healthy babies Steve! pics of the little ones ASAP!
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    re: Passing Slugs

    Glad she had some live ones! By the looks of her tail, she looks like a pretty mama
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    re: Passing Slugs

    Congrats on the new scrubs! Pictures!!!!
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    re: Passing Slugs

    Steve when they pass slugs, in a mix, or only. When do, or how do you know they have passed them all? Does it take days to clear a females system if it were her first time being gravid?

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    Re: Passing Slugs

    Quote Originally Posted by Dan72 View Post
    Steve when they pass slugs, in a mix, or only. When do, or how do you know they have passed them all? Does it take days to clear a females system if it were her first time being gravid?
    My female radix was passing jellies for around 6 weeks, sometimes 2 in a day, sometimes none for 2-3 days. This would seem to be fairly unusual though. As others have said, it can vary but it's usually over quicker than my radix.
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    Re: Passing Slugs

    Don't mean to speak for Steve, but in my experience it varies. I had have snakes take a week or more to pass all of the slugs,stillborns, even live babies. You can normally see that there is still a mass down by the vent, but other times it surprises you.

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    Re: Passing Slugs

    Quote Originally Posted by Chondro788 View Post
    Don't mean to speak for Steve, but in my experience it varies. I had have snakes take a week or more to pass all of the slugs,stillborns, even live babies. You can normally see that there is still a mass down by the vent, but other times it surprises you.
    Sounds good to me Jason.
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    Congrats on the 8 babies Steve!

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    Re: Passing Slugs

    Let me guess. You eat, sleep and spend all your time with your snakes right? AND have your camera at the ready 24/7. How else do get these pictures?? Also, what's with the slug picture?!? I wanna see the babies please. I never get tired of looking at garters.
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