Has anyone ever had a clutch hatch out in 30 to 40 days?

Big Gunns is in an argument with a know it all about this. This know it all is trying to convince BG that there is no way he missed the fact that a Ball had laid eggs for 20 days. So far one clutch supposedly hatched in 30 days and another in 40. BG knows he missed the eggs, but the know it all won't admit it.

If you tell BG yes you have. You must swear to Big Gunns that you're absolutely 100% sure that you just didn't miss the fact that your snake was wrapped around eggs. In other words...you picked up your snake and there was no eggs one day and the next there was.:gj:

BG has had snakes hold onto eggs for almost an extra month POS, but they still went about full term on hatching.

i think the only way for a clutch to hatch in 30-40 days is either.........

250degree incubator temperature

or

steriod injection directly into the embryo

.....i think either or should expedite the growing process ;)

Pitoon

I've had clutches go to 50 days... Never 30. EVER.

I hate know it alls!

Maybe he was using the Aztec calendar? ;)

I'm guessing someone forgot to check for eggs.....For a very long time....

Never had it happen, heads out at 51 or 52 is probably my earliest.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

I hate know it alls!

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BG meant to point out that he wasn't talking to his best friend(the mirror).:D

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Originally Posted by cboocks

I'm guessing someone forgot to check for eggs.....For a very long time....

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BG is sure you're correct.:gj:

Know it alls know nothing because they are to ignorant to listen!

In VPI's ball python book, they had success breeding at temps from 86 to 92 F. it also saids that a ball python exporter in Ghana incubated ball pythons eggs at ambient temperatures up to 100 degress F with high rate of success. and logan (1973) hatched eggs after 97 days at 80.5 degree F. can it be possible? would I incubate at 100 degrees F? No, Just wanted to throw this out there, if someone wants to do the math for an estimate at roughly how long at 100 F if this is true would it take?

Yup...... dont think that its possible (had to miss eggs... or maybe gamma ray radiation but you wont like those snakes when they are angry).... but ya know what happens when you enter an argument with an idiot.

Lol picture Lou Ferrigno as a snake.....:rofl::rofl:

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Originally Posted by don15681

In VPI's ball python book, they had success breeding at temps from 86 to 92 F. it also saids that a ball python exporter in Ghana incubated ball pythons eggs at ambient temperatures up to 100 degress F with high rate of success. and logan (1973) hatched eggs after 97 days at 80.5 degree F. can it be possible? would I incubate at 100 degrees F? No, Just wanted to throw this out there, if someone wants to do the math for an estimate at roughly how long at 100 F if this is true would it take?

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About 39 days if my math is correct.

80.5/97=0.830
89/56=1.589
100/X=Y

Y=1.589-0.830=0.759/8.5=0.089
Y=o.089X11=0.982+1.589=2.571
Y=2.571

X=2.571x39=100

Therefore 39 days at 100*F.

Shortest I've had was 53 days. On the other side though we have one clutch that still has babies coming out on day 66 right now. I know the temps were good as other clutches in the same incubator were hatching in crawling out by day 56.

While Jeremy's math is good we also have an issue with more variables, such as time out of incubator to check on the eggs, temp of water added during incubation, and the list goes on. Actually I was looking into a little due to the recent clutch and found some references putting some varience of incubation time up to a genetic variable.