Feeding maternal incubating female

Do you feed MI female while she is on her eggs? When you offer the first meal? I haven´t found an answer to this :confusd:

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Originally Posted by Heini86

Do you feed MI female while she is on her eggs? When you offer the first meal? I haven´t found an answer to this :confusd:

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You have not found anything because almost no one does maternal incubation. I know I don't. From what I have heard very few females will eat while they are on the eggs. Won't hurt to offer though. Let us know if you try it.

I´m definetly going to try. Not sure though, if it be wiser to try to lure her away from the eggs to feed...

If I was to do it I would show her a ft. If she showed interest, i would leave it in for ten minutes. She can decide if she wants to leave the eggs of not to get the food.

TacticalVetrinarian actually posted a video of feeding a maternally incubating snake mamma! :D She had apparently eaten 3 times while sitting on her clutch. It seems down to individual snake in this case; you can offer, but don't expect miracles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybc2RU_L6EI

Nope. I have done MI once, my experiences were as follows:

I didn't feed her after she laid the eggs. She never left the eggs, as such she never went looking for food, so I never offered her food.

I didn't clean her tub at all the whole time she was around her clutch. I did change the water. Before she laid the eggs I gave her extra bedding as well as some moss mixed in with the aspen.

When the eggs hatched, one had gone bad. Because I went to check, she crushed one of the hatching babies, killing it. When I realized I removed her and placed her in another tub. The rest of the eggs hatched without problem.

Long term, the 2 snakes from the same egg failed to thrive. The rest were fine.

Thank you for the advises :) I think I give it a shot end of the week.

So my other maternal incubating female ate today at day 36 :P

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Originally Posted by Heini86

So my other maternal incubating female ate today at day 36 :P

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Awesome. This is going in my notes for future reference.