Dasypeltis medici medici

[Masticophis]

Hi all,

It's been a while since I posted on this forum because I forgot my username and password.

I wanted to show you some pictures of my Dasypeltis. I bought them as Dasypeltis medici medici, but they look quite different. However, the breeder of my animals is still convinced that they are D.m. medici. What do you think?
It's a captive bred couple and they produced eggs which hatched about a week ago. The hatchlings didn't shed yet, so I didn't try to feed them.

The male eating an egg:


Female:



Mating in the tree (a couple of days before the female shed her skin):


Eggs and hatchlings:







kind regards

Gilian

[Psychogav]

Nice Post, I've seen those little stars on my eggs too sometimes, what are they?

[Masticophis]

I'm not sure about the stars. I think it has something to do with calcium deficiency or surplus.

[michael]

That doesn’t look like any medici pictures I’ve seen before. Are you sure they not inornata? Well done on the breeding.

[Bushviper]

I have never seen medici that look like that. Looks far more like D. atra.

The stars on the eggs I have also seen with a house snakes from the desert area where they live on lizards so possibly a bit too much calcium rather than too little.

[Masticophis]

I was thinking about inornata too. Is there any information about scale counts?

[Fooble]

Look allot like inornata definitely not medici.

Very pretty snakes.

[Bushviper]

D inornata do not have faint markings when they hatch so we can write that one off. There are so many species of Dasypeltis just waiting to be described without exact collecting data we would just be speculating. I think we can disregard D. medici medici at this stage though.

[Masticophis]

Thanks.

I contacted the seller and breeder of the animals. They are almost certainly D. atra because he bred tis species too. I'm not sure how they ended up being sold as D. medici though. The four hatchlings ate 2 eggs so far. I don't know whether one of them ate both eggs or not.
Such lovely snakes!

regards