My first year breeding

And there it is, a shed cycle...let me get the lay box ready lol

I ended up using some perlite to fill up the lay box, along with what moss I had left over.

re: Kathy Love's "summer room temperature"

Yes, the “summer room” is included within the chapter “Incubating Eggs.” The image immediately brought to my mind is the way that I have kept, bred, brumated, Eastern Garters, RedBellies, Milks from northern climes here in the Eastern US at a northern latitude. It is very, very convenient to not have to rely upon any artificial heating, cooling, humidifying, lighting. When I read about the “summer room” in FL I envision a year-round room where Corns could be kept like that, with minimal intervention. So, yes you are correct in literal detail. I extrapolate beyond the mere incubating phase; my thinking is that if eggs, the most precarious stage in the life cycle, can be kept in a summer room then every other season/stage can as well.

No disagreement there. The snakes should be able to survive in a "summer room" whatever that means for their range. One must understand that the term doesn't mean simply unheated and uncooled; don't stick your snakes in a storage shed in the sun. I realize that all the thread's contributors know this. I spent years teaching lab based classes and am hyper-aware of goofy, dangerous mistakes!

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Tomorrow, during my weekly check(the last weekly check before switching to daily), I've decided to switch the lid for a lid with a few holes. I've just been nervous about them running out of air, since they're so many eggs in there.

I always do that toward about the sixth week. My head tells me that there's plenty of oxygen in the nest box by my heart feels better with more ventilation.

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I know! And to think some Ball Python breeders use press and seal and never open the container during the entire incubation.

I switched the tops, just gotta keep an eye on humidity, don't want to mistake low humidity making the eggs dent for that "close to hatching" egg denting. This morning the eggs were plump as ever, and ALOT of movement in the eggs. (Which calms my "I've already suffocated the eggs" nerves lol)

I was thinking, I saw in a YouTube video that the lack of oxygen is what encourages the snakes to want to break out of their shell so I wonder if a lower oxygen environment would make then hatch faster. Not something I would want to test, but just a passing thought.

For Mama, she just shed, and remarkably took a meal with no hesitation. Which can mean two things, either she's not gravid (please) or she took the meal because she realized she needs the calories/energy. Either way I'm glad.

Female showing interest in the laybox...here we go again...

Originally Posted by inu009

Female showing interest in the laybox...here we go again...

I know the feeling. It's happening here, too. I expected it but I've got very mixed emotions!

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Btw, @DinosaurMorph, I have been trying to reply to your PM. I'm not sure what's happening but I'm not sure that my messages have gone through. (I know this isn't the proper place but I'm not sure what else to try.)

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