38 days in [maternal incubation]

[Blue Apple Herps]

Thank you! I am very interested in this. I, too, wonder why snakes cannot maternally incubate their eggs in captivity.

Very good. I have never really seen this done. I was told its always best to leave the eggs in the incubator. Cant wait to see what happens. Hey if its done in the wild, why not in captivity?

They can and will incubate their eggs successfully in captivity. If you keep the humidity up and the temps good, they'll do just fine.

I did it last year with my only clutch - I didn't want to set up an incubator for only one clutch, so I let her do it. Everything worked out OK - and the OP looks like his eggs are doing great as well!

I think one of the reasons people use incubators is that way they can be in complete control over everything as well as start getting the female back up to size again for the next year.