No incubator?

Ball pythons posess the capability to brood their own eggs, but you will still have to supply them with the right temperatures and humidity levels. Also, your brooding female will remain off feed for an additional couple of months, leaving her less time to gain weight before the next breeding season.

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Originally Posted by Rapture

Ball pythons posess the capability to brood their own eggs, but you will still have to supply them with the right temperatures and humidity levels. Also, your brooding female will remain off feed for an additional couple of months, leaving her less time to gain weight before the next breeding season.

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So the right temperatures and humidity = hatch? Got ya. But i might go with the incubator still, i dont want to risk the chance of the eggs dieing

Totally understandable, artificial incubation is the most popular and perhaps successful choice for ball python eggs.

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Originally Posted by Rapture

Totally understandable, artificial incubation is the most popular and perhaps successful choice for ball python eggs.

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Thanks alot for your help too everyone.

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Originally Posted by Rapture

Ball pythons posess the capability to brood their own eggs, but you will still have to supply them with the right temperatures and humidity levels. Also, your brooding female will remain off feed for an additional couple of months, leaving her less time to gain weight before the next breeding season.

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Yea thats what made me choose to use the incubators instead of letting the female hatch them.It would really bother me if i caused some babies the chance to live by not using a incubator.I know they do it in the wild but its really hard to copy those exact climates in captivaty settings.

If you really want to let your female incubat the egg's, this is how you need to go about it.

1.) make a nest box. Rubbermaid has some good choises, you will need somthing with a bottom and a lid.You will also want somthing that the snake can feel secure in, ( when she is coiled she can touch the sides of the box). A taller box works better then a avredge hide box.

2.) Place about 3" of DAMP suphagum moss, for humidity. Also be sure you have a humidity guage in there. You want the humidity about 80-85 %. The female can regulate the amount of humidity by how tightly she coiles around the eggs.

3.) Heat. If you dont use a rack system a basking spot would not be a bad idea. I assume you have a thermometer so keep the temp around 80 degrees. As before she can controll the temp as well.

The reasoning for keep the temp and humidity below incubator avrg is if your thermostat fails the eggs wont cook. As long as you keep an eye on the temp and humidity there should be nno problem. Remeber these snakes have been incubating eggs in the wild for years, with alot less controlled conditions. I hope this helps.

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Originally Posted by Tussin

If you really want to let your female incubat the egg's, this is how you need to go about it.

1.) make a nest box. Rubbermaid has some good choises, you will need somthing with a bottom and a lid.You will also want somthing that the snake can feel secure in, ( when she is coiled she can touch the sides of the box). A taller box works better then a avredge hide box.

2.) Place about 3" of DAMP suphagum moss, for humidity. Also be sure you have a humidity guage in there. You want the humidity about 80-85 %. The female can regulate the amount of humidity by how tightly she coiles around the eggs.

3.) Heat. If you dont use a rack system a basking spot would not be a bad idea. I assume you have a thermometer so keep the temp around 80 degrees. As before she can controll the temp as well.

The reasoning for keep the temp and humidity below incubator avrg is if your thermostat fails the eggs wont cook. As long as you keep an eye on the temp and humidity there should be nno problem. Remeber these snakes have been incubating eggs in the wild for years, with alot less controlled conditions. I hope this helps.

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Where do i buy sphagnum moss?

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Originally Posted by PythonFan8

Where do i buy sphagnum moss?

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You'd probably want something called long fibred sphagnum moss. It can be found in most garden stores as it is often used in soil mixes for carnivorous plants, orchids, and as a decoration for other plants as the stuff looks cool.If you go to Lowe's or home depot it's usually stored where the cactus/orchid supplies are.

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Originally Posted by Danny Beane

You'd probably want something called long fibred sphagnum moss. It can be found in most garden stores as it is often used in soil mixes for carnivorous plants, orchids, and as a decoration for other plants as the stuff looks cool.If you go to Lowe's or home depot it's usually stored where the cactus/orchid supplies are.

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Thank you very much.