My beautiful little female water monitor decided to avoid her lay box and drop some eggs in the water. All together got 10 good eggs from her. These will hopefully be heterozygous for sulfur permitting they arnt the product of parthenogenesis.Water Monitor dropping eggs
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My beautiful little female water monitor decided to avoid her lay box and drop some eggs in the water. All together got 10 good eggs from her. These will hopefully be heterozygous for sulfur permitting they arnt the product of parthenogenesis.
well, did she mate or don't you have a male? Monitors have been known for parthenogenesis, particularly Komodoensis when in All-female population. In those cases they somehow manage to lay fertile eggs. I have studied parthenogenesis to an extent, as I did have a Ratsnake a number of years ago that would lay fertile clutches every year without ever mating, but the offspring were rather weak and many were either born w/ kinks or didn't hatch at all and had horrible deformities
She had been paired to a sulfur male a few months ago but I never witnessed copulations. I usually incubate all eggs that my monitors lay regardless if they've been bred or not. I've been able to hatch out 2 unfertilzed eggs prior but they came out pretty deformed and died shortly after. The eggs she laid look good so far though.
I would like to see now this turns out. If it is successful parthenogenesis then great
that is awesome, these are my fav monitor. my last pair never produced which was disappointing as i would loved to have been able to get them going.
please keep this updated
please keep this updated
Awesome! You seem to have quite a lot of cool species - please show us all of them if you get the time 
I've heard of partogenisis in several monitor species, I've also heard of it in rattlesnakes, rat snakes and a scaless water snake
Oddball
did it with a bichir using science. Basically cloning it