Re: preparing egg-laying environment..
oh how i love that plump look. keep us posted. As lawernce said I would go with the POS and news paper works just fine for most on here when egg laying.
good luck
Re: preparing egg-laying environment..
Jen, its always best to keep gravid females on moist mulch. that way when they lay at nite or when your at work theres no problem with those eggs.
A $3.00 bag of cypress mulch from Lowes will do the trick. :)
I understand that there are other ways to do this, this is how I do it. ;)
Re: preparing egg-laying environment..
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Originally Posted by ECLARK
Jen, its always best to keep gravid females on moist mulch. that way when they lay at nite or when your at work theres no problem with those eggs.
A $3.00 bag of cypress mulch from Lowes will do the trick. :)
I understand that there are other ways to do this, this is how I do it. ;)
Just to show you how versatile these animals are, I have great success doing things completely opposite from the way Ed chooses to ... I let the girls lay where they will in their normal setups and take care of the eggs as soon as I find them (give or take a few hours) ... I've been producing ball pythons clutches this way for a very long time and it's always worked well for me.
The single quickest way to kill a ball python egg is to get it wet, so I would never dream of allowing my gravid girls anywhere near moist anything. I know that a lot of the large scale breeders that don't have the ability to check on every animal every single day add moist moss to their females enclosurs to allow the eggs to have extra humidity for a couple of days in case someone misses them ... but I'm lucky enough to be able to open every tub, every day and check for eggs, so I don't need to do that.
As for smaller water bowls, I'm using 4 inch bowls and my girls never get anywhere near them. I think that if your humidity is where is should be, water bowls are never a problem.
I think that it's great to see a lot of different ways to accomplish the same thing being shared in the forum by people with all different levels of experience!
Hope this helps.
-adam
