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[Harry74]

I have been a bit worried about my female spotted python over the past month or so. She has not been eating very well and appeared very sluggish. In fact she has only eaten once since my other snakes started feeding at the start of September. She has been in with a male for the past ten or so months but I didn't expect them to breed s she is only approximately 2 1/2 and I assumed she was too young and small to breed. As you can probably guess I was quite surprised to find this (see picture) when I opened the enclosure to check on her last night. Now I am in a bit of a predicament as this is my first ever clutch and I wasn't really prepared for this. I have quickly made an incubator out of an old esky with some heat cord and a thermostat to control the temps. I have some containers with vermiculite (only stuff I could find was in Bunnings, hope this is ok) in them. The problem that I now have is that the female is constantly wrapped around the eggs and when I attempt to remove them she coils tighter around them making it virtually impossible to retrieve them. Is there any trick to getting the eggs? Am I doing the right things? Should I leave the eggs where they are? Any advice on this subject would be greatly apprecieated.

Cheers

Harry