Never discussed information…hot females!?!?
Hot females is a term used by herpetoculturist to designate animals witch where incubated at the higher range of tolerable incubation temps, often only 1 degree higher will result in physical abnormality, these hot females (applies to males too) have no visible defects, however they do suffer neurological damage, snakes are very high strong and nippy always striking so aggressively that there entire body turns counter clockwise, in monitors even none aggressive species will bite huff and puff, as they grow they remind me of the character Dory in Nemo, always acting lost and confused, they are hyper active and to my knowledge never successfully breed. A friend hatched ringed pythons twice on the higher incubation temperature range, I checked his incubation temp with one of my probe, he was 2 degrees higher then his thermometer who’d show, all babies hade aberrant pattern, he was shocked that I refused babies from these clutches, he tot they where awesome looking and kept a very orange female, its been 6 years now and she never bred for him, he never produced any aberrant after adjusting his temps.
This is why I don’t like my female lace, she shows every sings of being a hot female.
The point is chouse your animals carefully, it doesn’t mean you will get good breeders because you obtain them from Top varanid breeders.
However don’t worry if you have such reptiles, it isn’t hopeless!! I am one of these product of high temps conception (aka moron) and at 30 old finally succeeded (allowed) to copulate and both my offspring’s are normal. I think!?!?
Last edited by Steeve B; 01-21-04 at 05:59 PM..
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