Well I don't know 2 surprise clutches in the space of a month this time however it was one of my female corn snakes. Here we are at the very start of the breeding cycles getting ready for mating to take place in the spring and low and behold my zigzag cemiscale female lays 8 eggs on the 17th.
All the eggs are in incubation and appear to be doing well and there were no slugs in the clutch either. So hopefully they should be hatching around the 15th Febuary and should hopefully be motley or even zigzag in a form of amel.I will keep you posted.
As for the water dragon eggs, these have unfortunately failed but never mind hopefully next year they may have a successful mate and we may have some fertile eggs.

I certainly have a budding Herpetologist for a son it appears.
Knowing that my eldest son (5yrs) could tell you what there needs to be in a vivarium for snakes or lizards we thought that our reptilian influence was certainly rubbing off on him. Well just imagine he then takes this information into school and builds a reptile world on a table top out of play doh, twigs, rocks, coloured paper and rubber snakes, lizards and frogs.
His teacher, very impressed then brings me into class at the end of the day to have a look at what he has produced and i'm amazed at what he has achieved. Not convinced that he created it on his own I asked his teacher, only to be told that he did do it all himself part from putting the reptiles into their places (he had 2 friends help him except he was telling them where to put them).
So really pleased with him the very next day Friday the 14th I get another surprise, his teacher had taken a photo of what he was creating and had shown the head mistress at the end of the day, the head mistress then decided that it was so good he was awarded a wizard learner certificate in a whole school assembly the next morning specifically for creating this Reptile World.
So here I am the proud mum telling you all about it and how wonderful it is that the things they learn from us they can take away and put into some kind of practise and be awarded for it.