mother lost an egg

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Originally Posted by parisjackson

I was going off the post that said
" Move the eggs and mother into a more controlled environment - I suggest getting a Sterilite container like this. Put it on a heat pad that is run through a thermostat. Line it with 3 layers of newspaper and put a water bowl in it. Adjust the temperature so it's at 88-90F, humidity should be between 70-80%. Put mom and eggs in there and leave daddy in the big enclosure."

That seemed reasonable since it could be hard to keep the big one as humid as needed.

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Paris, this is what I did with mine. So, I know it works. My snakes are in glass tanks (like aquarium tanks but designed for reptiles). I keep the glass tanks environment fairly stable by constant maintenance. I can't do that with the mother trying to bite me everytime I open the tank. So, I moved the mother and eggs to a sterilite tub. It took me a day to stabilize the tub, then my husband uncoiled the mother from the eggs, I moved the eggs to the tub, then my husband plopped the mother on top of the eggs.

I fed her every 10 days while she's brooding on the eggs. The first few times we uncoiled her and put her in her feeding tank (this is how we feed all our snakes because we feed live rats - and live rats in a fully decorated glass tank is a disaster). She ate without a problem. After a while my husband got tired of getting struck at so he would just put the rat on the end of the tub farthest from the mother/eggs. The mother smells the rat, uncoils half her body off the eggs and strikes/coils the rat, eats it, then settles back down on the eggs. Really cool to watch this acrobatics!

So, any updates? Did you separate them?

No possibilty pictures??? :confused: