unexpected

well this is what i got to find yesterday.
LOL... why can't i have animals that do things normaly?

this is the female i breed to my male that lost to much wieght so i stopped breeding them, after only three trys.

done the math by the book so to speak and when i got nothing i wrote it off as it did not take this yr.
never skipped a meal, never got testy would only soak when in shed, 2 sheds and one false shed later...
6 eggs all looking very healthy

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...tchresized.jpg

what a pleasant surprise!

Congrats...so what are your plans for them? Do you have an incubator?

well considering this was unexpected i didnt have anything set up.
and with the way she is acting, i desided i will let her do her thing.

in by the way she is acting i mean, she is not agressive at all, had her lid open while doing some spot cleaning and she come out as to say hi mom, moved her head off the eggs so i could see all of them, even let me pet her with out getting hissy about it.

the only talking i got out of her was when i misted the top layer of paper a bit to help bring up the humidity

She's a beautiful girl! good luck with that clutch!

Dusty, congrats!!!


Make sure there is plenty of water for her, don't try and feed her, and make sure to check up on her periodically. I would monitor the humidity closely, and make sure that your heat will not be a big variant, and she should do you well!

Congrats again!

Dusty,ball pythons LOVE to mess with your head when it comes to expecting eggs from them :P .Congrats :rockon:

If your are letting a female maternaly incubate the eggs what should the humidity be?

She looks like she will do a fine job maternally incubating the clutch. If you happen to mist in the cage, be careful not to mist the eggs themselves as may cause to much water to just be sitting on them. As others have said, make sure she has plenty of water.

I would give her a week or two and maybe offer her a f/t rat hopper. If she will take it, fine, if not, no harm done.

If you are going to do maternal I would add a substrate to the cage that will hold humidity better than newspaper.

thanks for all the congrats ya'll :)


and please any one who has let thier snakes maternally incubate feel free to give all the input that you may think will help me/her with having a secessful clutch.
as this is a first for both of us

Hi there!
I am in the same boat with my possible parthenogenic snake "Mila"
This is a first for me too & was worried she was too skinny on the tail end...I do need to get a better t -mometer & hygrometer but all seems well on that end.
So I will be checking back to see if anyone gives any good pointers.

Thanks,

~Shari

Well, no pointers I see....I did get the accurite & its showing 20% difference in humidity levels, I don't get it its showing 59% & it feels humid as hell in there!! Im spraying all day (not the eggs)
Dusty...how's everything coming along for you??

~Shari

Shari, what's showing a 20% difference?

The dial hygrometer is showing 80% & the digital is showing 59% & it feels so humid in there, feels more humid than 59%, but then again I don't have a built in hygrometer so - who know's.. :sigh2: I worry much more now that she's on eggs.

~Shari

I got it up to 65%, & I can probably keep it there if I sit & spray all nite long .. Did that guy on Man vs. Wild just drink his own pee???? :eyepoppin I'm sorry I got caught off guard by that :pee: :rofl: Anyway I do trust the accu-rite, I just thought it felt pretty darn humid in there.

~Shari

Shari... get some moss, bed a beast, or cypress mulch and soak it and put it in there. That will help keep the humidity up in her tank.

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Originally Posted by lillyorchid

Shari... get some moss, bed a beast, or cypress mulch and soak it and put it in there. That will help keep the humidity up in her tank.

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I have lotsa moss in there already.....it is wet, its not drafty in there at all either, I put damp paper towels on her hide too.

Thanks!!
~Shari

well almost at the half way point (and i'm still holding my breath, waiting to turn blue)

any ways here is an uptodate picture of her sitting on the eggs
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...ashaoneggs.jpg

if you look close enough you can see that the one on the far left has a few wrinkels in it and the one in the center looks squished, but they have looked like that from get go i'm thinking its just the way she is layin on them.

so far they all still look good and there is no bad smell in her tote to tell me something is wrong.
so i am still keeping fingers crossed that i will soon have 6 healthy lil snakies to fill the house with (for a while).

oh, and as far as the humidty and temps, i slid my probe over to just a few inches away from where she laid the eggs.
the temps are running right around the 87 deg. mark (this is at the front of the tote, back is over part of the uth so running warmer), but the humidty was running low so to help this issue this is what i done.

went and got an air pump for a fish tank, the air tube, air stone a small bowl and a sponge.
ran the tube through one of the air holes in her tote hooked it altogether and placed it in one end of her tote.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...age1_80040.jpg

so far its been helping to keep it right around the 49% range.

i have given her two small f/t mice sence she has laid and she ate.
only time she has gotten hissy with me is if some one else is tryn to look in on them besides me:colbert:

Good job!! :gj: She is looking really good...

I think I'm going to go ahead & feed Mila a little something, I just know she'll eat & she needs to for that matter.

Oh, dip$... me didn't put the thermometer unit in the right spot, so my humidity has been HI% the whole time.....fretting over nothing :imslow:


~Shari

When I had a clutch unexpectedly my first year of breeding, I didn't have my Natures Spirit incubator purchased yet so I decided to maternally incubate. My temps stayed pretty steady at around 87 and the humidity was up there the entire time. Of course, here in Orlando, humidity is never a problem it seems. :)


Moma was good and stayed on the eggs the whole time. Never moved to eat. I had her on cypress mulch at the time. The babies started pipping on day 65 and were completely out by day 68. So it seems from my one unplanned attempt at maternal incubation, that the babies were much slower coming out then when I incubate them - I average around 56 days in the incubator.

Good luck with her and keep us up to date.