This is my first year attempting breeding my hybrid colubrids.
Today, I was able to get my male to lock up with one of my females through a little trickery. They sat still and locked for about two minutes.
I will attempt to pair them again, but could she be fertilized from such a short lock up?
The male is (pos het albino);
37.5% pueblan milk
25% cal king
25% Honduran milk
12.5% corn
The female is (albino);
75% corn
25% Nelson milk
It is possible but by a very small margin, usually longer locks lead to successful follicle fertilization.
If you want to increase chances of success you should definitely attempt to pair them multiple times, once after every 2 weeks or so until you know your female is gravid. If the female seems stressed by the male increase time between pairings.
I’m intrigued by the hybridization going on, what are your plans for these guys? 
Me too! I’m interested in what these babies are going to look like!
I have to see viscous yellow “leftovers” before I feel good about the session.
I’ve since had two 30 minute plus lock ups with the first pair. For that pair my goal is to see if the male is het albino.
This pairing is what I’m really excited about. The female (mostly black) is het hypo. Next year i want to pair her with a hypo. This year i hope to get imperial publan looking hybrids. This was the first time the female was receptive. They sat like this for over 30 minutes, but I could never see an actual lock… I’ll keep pairing them.
Good sign.
These are the crosses. Male is on the left, females on the right. I’m hoping for some exciting looking offspring.
Me too!!! This is so so exciting!!!
Beautiful. Fingers crossed!
I hope you get what you’re hoping to see.
For next year, you might try taking out the substrate before you introduce pairs. You’re much more likely to find that evidence of a successful lock Dean was mentioning if they are on something like newspaper or brown paper. I also want to see that evidence, and it’s easy to see probably at least 98.9% on paper. There’s also a small risk that the male might get an injury to his hemipenis by having particulate substrate stuck to it. Uncommon, but it does happen and can be serious.
Best of luck with the coming clutches!
Thanks for the advice. I did have to pull some substrate off of him. I’ll put them in a container without substrate or use paper towel during future pairings.
Today this pair laid 15 eggs. 4 look to be slugs, but I will incubate until I’m sure. This was her first clutch. She looks so much thinner now, she’s definitely empty. Three of the slugs are very stuck to good eggs, will that be a problem? I gently tried to pull them apart but they aren’t budging. Also, I only use paper towels now for substrate. I like it much better. My other two females are in blue, but I’m only expecting eggs from one of them.
You can usually slowly peel slugs away from good eggs, and you’ll probably want to.
I’d definitely try seperating the slugs again if it hasn’t been past 24 hours. They usually come off fairly easy … I haven’t seen any evidence to suggest that slugs impact the health of other eggs but its better to be safe than sorry.
Super excited to see the outcome anyway!
Congrats on so many good eggs. This will be an exciting pair!
Today my female that is gray, red and black banded laid 10 eggs. I wasn’t expecting her to lay. She only locked up with the male once. I candled some of the eggs and of those I candled half looked to have embryos. But the eggs overall all look like slugs to me. I’ll incubate until I’m sure.
I was able to separate the slugs from the other clutch. I candled those eggs and they are all full of veins.
I’m expecting eggs from my third female any day now.
Too bad. These ten are definitely slugs.
It’s been an interesting first year breeding. My first clutch is starting to hatch today. Incubated at 80 degrees, today is day 68. These babies are;
43.5% corn snake
18.75% pueblan milk snake
12.5% Honduran milk snake
12.5% California king snake
12.5% Nelson milk snake
My imperial pueblan laid a clutch of all slugs. Then she doubled clutch where she laid one egg every few days. She has one egg left in her. She doesn’tseem egg bound, but I’m keeping an eye on her.
My other female that laid all slugs just shed and I can feel about 8 eggs in her. I’m expecting this clutch to be slugs too, but we’ll see.
The female that laid the clutch that is hatching just shed. She feels full, but I can’t feel defined eggs. So I’m not sure if she’ll double clutch.
Here’s a picture of the first baby hatching. I’ll post an update when they’re all out.
I look forward to the crazy combination hybrid pics. 
