Tony Jones
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If you remove a female children python from her eggs & move them will she go back to them
Curious if she did lay them on top/beneath of the heating, would this not kill the eggs quickly?Hi Tony,
Generally once a maternally incubating female python is disturbed she will simply abandon the clutch. It's presumed to be a survival strategy for the snake. Naturally there are always exceptions but this seems to be the norm. You can try what Pythonguy suggests and see how it goes but personally I don't like your chances. Let's hope I'm wrong.
As a rule, unless you intend to artificially incubate a clutch the best thing to do is to leave the female and clutch be so she can just do her thing. When I did breed pythons I never removed eggs to incubate and always let the female do the job and never had a clutch fail. Never used a nesting box either.
In hindsight you probably would have been better off placing the nesting box over or just off centre of the heat mat or just left the clutch where she laid it and turned the heat mat off.
Best of luck with the clutch. Keep us posted as I'm interested to know what she does.
Cheers,
George.
Thats what my concern was & the reason I moved them I thought there would be to much direct heat & that it would also dry the eggs outCurious if she did lay them on top/beneath of the heating, would this not kill the eggs quickly?
Better off making a incubator mate, will be about 100$, esky + heatcord + thermostatThats what my concern was & the reason I moved them I thought there would be to much direct heat & that it would also dry the eggs out
She has not gone back to them yet so I have the clutch in the nesting box & have adjusted temperatures to maintain constant incubating temps & will just keep my fingers crossed
Curious if she did lay them on top/beneath of the heating, would this not kill the eggs quickly?
Hi Guys,Thats what my concern was & the reason I moved them I thought there would be to much direct heat & that it would also dry the eggs out
She has not gone back to them yet so I have the clutch in the nesting box & have adjusted temperatures to maintain constant incubating temps & will just keep my fingers crossed
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