Incubating With The Spider Gene

I have incubated at 89 for everything. I have never had an issue with spider or spider combos. I tried the lower temp on caramels and super cinnies last season. With 3 clutches of caramels, two clutches came out perfect. The unrelated clutch, all kinked. With the super cinny stuff, I've hatched out a few Super Pewters and Silver Bullets that were all perfect. The few Super Cinnies I've hatched 2 of 3 were kinked. I think it's a flip of the coin. I have more stuff I'm trying this season.

Great opinions folks. Thank you. And no, I would never use warmer temps to speed things up. I won't even get to pair my snakes until fall of NEXT year so patience won't be an issue at all by then.

OK so we are incubating at 88 degrees based on the fact that it is what the females choose.

I was just making clarifications.

It is clearly a genetic issue. From what I have seen few have the ability to be more than one degree accuracy anyway so a set point of 88 could be 87-89. Many likely have greater variation than this so the debate is moot as the exceptional fine environmental controls needed is in many cases lacking.


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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

No the wobble thing is part of the genetics and nothing to do with the incubation temps.. Been there tried that..

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I'm with him. I don't know how incubation could change the predisposed genetic mutation.

I do 87.7 with my herpstat. I have never even done 90. I figure if a couple extra days helps out why not? I don't have any Carmel projects so I can't commit on that but I have heard 87 helps both.:gj: