Look what I found with #7

[Dragonboy]

I thought I struck out breeding this year. I was cleaning pens today and I found #7 a female BP het albino coiled on 6 obviously fertile eggs. I had her in with the #5 the pastel het albino male 3 or so months ago and apparently it worked. It was like the end of May when I pulled him back to his own cage.
This was not expected at this time of the year. So now I am faced with what to do. My initial thought was do I take them like I would a cornsnakes eggs and toss them on a shelf or leave mom to her own devices? She has laid in the last 4-5 days...I was just not expecting this now. WOW. I currently do not have an incubator but I think I am going to go buy a hovabator today. I was just not expecting them to be laying this time of year. You can see photos on my facebook page. Just type in scottleechambers@yahoo.com

[snakesRkewl]

I'm not sure what others do, but I kind of figure that if I'm going to breed that the incubator needs to be put together when I begin pairing snakes
so that it's ready to use when and or if I have eggs.
What would you have done if the snake went gravid earlier on?

[Dragonboy]

I did end up setting up an incubator. The eggs are in there at 85 degrees F.
If it had been summer like with the colubrids I would have tossed them on the shelf like I do the corn/king/milk etc eggs. That has been a fool proof method for me for years. However it is way too cool to do that now. I had expected her to lay months ago. It is going to turn out okay regardless. Who knows if any of the others will end up laying any time soon.

[joepythons]

I did end up setting up an incubator. The eggs are in there at 85 degrees F.
If it had been summer like with the colubrids I would have tossed them on the shelf like I do the corn/king/milk etc eggs. That has been a fool proof method for me for years. However it is way too cool to do that now. I had expected her to lay months ago. It is going to turn out okay regardless. Who knows if any of the others will end up laying any time soon.

Sorry but ball python eggs are not like colubrid eggs they will die off unless your room is kept at 90 degrees.If your going to breed ball pythons you need to have a incubator ready BEFORE they drop eggs.The incubator needs to be closer to 90 not 85.

[DemmBalls]

I think most incubate between 88-89 degrees? 85 seems a bit low for BP eggs.

[adamjeffery]

most incubate at 89 because it hatches babies faster. i incubate anywhere from 86-90 and all hatch fine. 85 may be low but it would only push the hatch date back. if a snake HAD to have 90 degrees to have its eggs hatch that snake would not exist in the wild. temps fluctuate, humidity fluctuates, other animals paw through the clutch and knock some around while eating other ones. these things happen in the wild and babies still hatch their. the suggested temps are guidelines. not set in stone rules.
adam jeffery