Shire pythons
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Cheers mate its really easy to be honest . All i did was put a polystyrene box with dry sphagnum moss up the cool end of enclosure and misted the hot end with water every now again and mum did the rest. Been feeding small meals since the day she laid and her condition is already pretty good.Congratulations man, that’s some real snake breeding stuff right there to doing MI. In my opinion. I have never tried it completely and probably never will.
The very same can be said for hatchling turtles. If you incubate a clutch from laying to hatching at 28°C right through, they'll be fine and do perfectly well but if you let the incubator fluctuate up to 29°C during the day down to say 25°C every night, the hatchies are very much more robust.funny thing is this clutch of eggs had some serious temp fluctuations and imo only made the hatchies harder. @Yellowtail
Yeah I'm no expert but it makes sense to me. Cant see anyway or anywhere that in the wild any eggs would be kept at 31.5 degrees for 60 days. But dont get me wrong doing it that way in artificial incubation gets good results . I feel like maternal just makes them hardier more robust .imoThe very same can be said for hatchling turtles. If you incubate a clutch from laying to hatching at 28°C right through, they'll be fine and do perfectly well but if you let the incubator fluctuate up to 29°C during the day down to say 25°C every night, the hatchies are very much more robust.
Yeah there's no constants in the wild... one day a turtle nest could be hitting 30°C on a hot 35°C day and the next day it could be 22°C and raining... no wild clutch sits at 28°C constant for 65 days. You python keepers/breeders are lucky, you can toil away with maternal incubation with little to no worries, too much risk with turtle eggs, it could all end if the nest hit 32°C it's game over. Too much time and patience expended to gamble with leaving eggs buried outside.Yeah I'm no expert but it makes sense to me. Cant see anyway or anywhere that in the wild any eggs would be kept at 31.5 degrees for 60 days. But dont get me wrong doing it that way in artificial incubation gets good results . I feel like maternal just makes them hardier more robust .imo
I have to say those are very georgeous nhatchlings :OThe other interesting thing about leaving the eggs in a clump is they all seem to be aware of each other and pip and hatch together over a very short period as do reptiles that bury their eggs. This was not my experience when incubating separated eggs. Did this happen with the MI clutch?
This lot of jungles were about as fat and healthy as you can get and you can see how neatly and uniformly they pip the shell.
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Thanks mateAbsolutely gorgeous.
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