Incubating?

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Originally Posted by oppie2005

ive never bred before, but my outlook on it followed that of Ilovelace, i figured, in the wild she would incubate her own eggs, and would know alot better whats best for them than i would so, all i should do is provide her with what she needs to do it herself. However, i hadn't heard of anyone that actually did maternal incubation, all i had read was people doing artificial or whatever its called so...didnt know if i should follow suit.

But, seeing how you do maternal and have great success rates with it, i think that is what i prefer to do :)

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The most common problem you'd encounter if you go this route is humidity issues. As long as your enclosure is holding humidity in the 60-80% range, I'd say you would have no trouble with maternal incubation. The eggs are kept at a much higher humidity trapped in their mother's coils. Whatever you do, do not turn the mother's enclosure into a giant egg tub and increase the humidity to 100% because it will make for a very uncomfortable and wet environment for mom.