I remember reading in an old (the first?) Vivarium magazine about Bob Clark hatching the first cb albino burms with maternal incubation (and getting bit checking for albino hatchlings). Does anyone here know if he still uses maternal incubation with any species and why or why not? I also read a report of someone in Florida who uses maternal incubation in their garage on what sounded like a large number of ball pythons and sprays the concrete down periodically to keep humidity up. I would think Florida would be fairly humid to start with so us non-coastal people would probably have to work at high humidity even more. Can anyone here confirm the details and identity of this Florida breeder?
It seems logical that the extra 2 months of feeding would benefit the female and that maternal incubation in captivity might be stressfully (I was instructed by a medium sized breeder who uses maternal incubation to only check in on the brooding female once a week). However I would still like to know if anyone has really done much of a study of it. Perhaps there are less apparent physiological or perhaps even psychological benefits to the female or even the babies. I haven't heard anything indicating hatch rates are any less - but again there isn't a lot of hard data.