Supplementing water

[MorphMaster]

When you guys incubate your eggs, do you ever add water to the medium even if when you first set it up it was fine, or do you just let them go? Can you weigh the box to determine if you need more water? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

By adding water, I mean down the road of incubation. I know to initially add enough water

[The Serpent Merchant]

yes, if you weigh the egg box when you first set it up with the proper amount of water/eggs you can weigh the box again later on during the incubation then add enough water to make the weight the same as it was when you first weighed it.

[Pythonfriend]

weighing it is a good idea.


i guess most breeders just add so much water intially that it lasts through the whole incubation. It also depends on how insulated the incubator is, how much water it loses per day.

the eggs should not run dry, this would harm the eggs, they need their humidity.

[MorphMaster]

Wouldn't ball python eggs weight increase as a snake grows in it?

[Annarose15]

Wouldn't ball python eggs weight increase as a snake grows in it?

Law of Physics: Matter is neither created nor destroyed, it only changes form (liquid, solid, gas). So, the only actual egg weight change would occur if they become more dehydrated or turgid due to a humidity/moisture change.

[snakesRkewl]

It depends on how you incubate whether or not you'll need to add water down the road.
We keep some bottled water in the inc just for that purpose, but we are doing substrateless incubating so we rarely have to add water.

I have never weighed a tub ...