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    Collection/Egg Crisis

    Well I'm not sure what to think of all this. I know ball pythons are hardy but there is usually only so much they can take when it comes to extremes.
    Since Friday I've been without power, and up here in Michigan the temps in the house did't last vary long with all the gusting going on outside, and with my first clutch of balls in an incubator that was powerless I was trying very much not to panic.
    The smallest of my balls I piled them in 1 tub with a couple of 40 hr heat packs. but it grew colder and colder by the time the other tubs had reached the 60's and I had to do something to heat everyone up, so I bagged everyone and lined them by the fireplace which we were forced to use cause the house temperature was one its way to the low 50's, as long as the fire kept going a safe distance from the fireplace kept everyone at about 75-82 degrees, but that was better than nothing.

    As for the eggs, since I had been using standing water in the bator, I started using boiling water to raise the temp, but it was hard to stabalize, I know the eggs have now been exposed to highs of up to 93 usually not for more than 10 minutes and lows to 76. but once I did stable the temps they would last for a good 6 hrs with 2 blankets over the bator door.
    Being that the eggs were laid on the 29th, Friday was only the 3rd day into incubation when all hell broke loose, I'm hoping and praying they all go full term and don't end up being horribly deformed from all of the the temp fluctuations. I had candled them a couple times to make sure no solid masses were starting to form in the eggs and actually got to see a very tiny baby wiggle around. I'm really concerned from the multiple warnings that I've seen about not getting the eggs wet. Due to the temperature flux there were several times I found the eggs themselves covered in condensation, which I would carefully wipe off, I' m hoping that condensation didn't harm the eggs, I was already having slight dimpling happening with the humidity at 100%, but luckily none of the dimpling got any worse.

    I just hate the fact that it was only abut half our block that lost power, the blocks next to us were fine even the rear half of our street was still ok. I hated feeling like I was just in a isolated bubble of misery that took the electric company almost 3 days to get to

    And if anybody has any advice on getting a ranco thermostat to work again, I could really use it. Now that the power is back on the house is slowly warming back up but my ranco is stuck on the blasted E2 error. I've unplugged it, waited, plugged it in , made sure it wasn't set at the max temp or anything and it just keeps going back to the E2, is it cause everything is so cold it doesn't know what to do? sheesh. I've had this happen before and it just seems the ranco starts working when it feels like it, which is really not what I need right now, I just need it to do what its suppose to
    Last edited by Meltdown Morphs; 03-04-2012 at 01:05 PM.
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