bp help

i have 2 balls . i thought 2 males till this past tues , egss holy cow , now what , havnt had time to do anything with them , its been 3 day mother is wrapped around them , should i let her incubate herself , egss were looking good , now a couple look a little odd shape , is it to late to incubate them , try to set something up in the cage

Man I wish I had some useful advice, but I'm not a breeder so I don't know much about it. Some of the breeders should start showing up in a little bit and hopefully they will see this thread and steer you in the right direction. The best I can offer is if you look at the dark blue header near the top of the page, you will see the word "Search". This is the forum search function. Open it and type in something like incubate, incubator, incubation, and it will pull up a whole list of threads dealing with the subject. Good Luck...

and :welcome: to BP.net...

if you keep the conditions in her cage spot on throughout incubation, she can maternally incubate them. Most people choose to artificially incubate them since they have more control over the variables.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/searc...archid=1344250

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/searc...archid=1344252

hope that helps!

ok thanks , she is sitting on them , the air condition is 3 ft away , should i move the tank, and she moved her beding all around , the eggs are sitting on the bottom of the glass tank , should i remove her , and get a plastic container , and fill it with vermiculite , and set the eggs in that , and let her go back on

Not meaning to hijack this thread, but how often does a female succeed in inccubating her own eggs? If everything is kept as it should be (temps and whatnot), would the female being around her eggs cause any issues? Just curious! :)

This is another example of why you shouldn't house two snakes together!:mad:

That being said, depending on the size and age of your female, and how committed you are to the eggs surviving, you have a LOT of work ahead of you.

Females can successfully incubate eggs themselves, but you really have to monitor things carefully. She'll need exact temps and humidity, and she sure won't appreciate having another snake around. If she thinks it's a threat to her eggs, she may even kill the other.

If you decide to incubate on your own, you'll need to buy or build an incubator that will keep near perfect temps and humidity. If you go that route, and you succeed in taking the eggs from her, you'll need to wash her off with baby shampoo, then break down and wash the entire enclosure. If she can smell her eggs, she won't eat.

If you get extremely lucky, since you seem to know very little about this kind of thing, you MIGHT even manage to see one hatch.

My advice to you is to read everything about eggs, incubation, and care of mother you can find, then read some more.

After that, use your half a brain and get those snakes separate enclosures.

Gale

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by angllady2

This is another example of why you shouldn't house two snakes together!:mad:

That being said, depending on the size and age of your female, and how committed you are to the eggs surviving, you have a LOT of work ahead of you.

Females can successfully incubate eggs themselves, but you really have to monitor things carefully. She'll need exact temps and humidity, and she sure won't appreciate having another snake around. If she thinks it's a threat to her eggs, she may even kill the other.

If you decide to incubate on your own, you'll need to buy or build an incubator that will keep near perfect temps and humidity. If you go that route, and you succeed in taking the eggs from her, you'll need to wash her off with baby shampoo, then break down and wash the entire enclosure. If she can smell her eggs, she won't eat.

If you get extremely lucky, since you seem to know very little about this kind of thing, you MIGHT even manage to see one hatch.

My advice to you is to read everything about eggs, incubation, and care of mother you can find, then read some more.

After that, use your half a brain and get those snakes separate enclosures.

Gale

---

thanks for the advice ,

cant say much about incubation. but if they look bad dont cut them to early a friend of mine thought they looked bad and flat cut them early and lost out on 3 pastles from 3eggs pastel to normal... Killed his odds...

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by aff19802

cant say much about incubation. but if they look bad dont cut them to early a friend of mine thought they looked bad and flat cut them early and lost out on 3 pastles from 3eggs pastel to normal... Killed his odds...

---

they are only 4 days old , it was a unexpected hatch , top 2 are rough looking , bottem 3 look good but its really early

I noticed the OP didn't dispute the statement that was made about housing the snakes together, but also (unless I missed something) I don't think he/she said that the snakes were housed together -- just that he thought he had two males.

It's highly unlikely, but it could be that he made a new purchase and somehow got a gravid female. Also, isn't it possible for females to store sperm and to also just lay blanks for no particular reason?

Yes, you were probably right -- he probably is housing them together, and it obviously ins't a good idea. But, maybe we should be sure about the facts before we slam somebody for their husbandry skills and accuse them of having half a brain...

Off my soapbox...