Gravid ball python Rubbermaid container: help needed!

[twistedtails]

It's just difficult to do and it puts the female through a lot of unnecessary time and effort.

Don't we all wish we had a break from parenting. Snakes should be glad they don't have to put up with 9 months of it!

[Kaorte]

Don't we all wish we had a break from parenting. Snakes should be glad they don't have to put up with 9 months of it!

*18 years of it!

[Jenasourousrex]

It seems to me that the biggest issue that everyone has with maternal incubation is making sure that the female if fat enough to do it all over again next season. I'm not going to be breeding her next season.

[MustBeSatan]

Pretty sure only one person mentioned her losing weight... The biggest problem is trying to achieve perfect conditions for the eggs.

[Jenasourousrex]

I wasn't talking about this post specifically. Most people on other posts I have done and other pages I have read have complained about having the snakes back up to proper weight for the next breeding. Also, conditions are really not that very hard to maintain.

I'm tired of everyone saying that maternal incubation doesn't work or is less effective. Most of those people have never even tried it. Everyone that I have talked to that has done maternal incubation has had 100% hatchrate.

[Quiet Tempest]

Achieving perfect conditions for eggs is an issue for artificial incubation, not maternal. With maternal incubation, the mother does all the brooding and the less the keeper tinkers with things, the better. Just provide temps in the low to mid 80s and make sure the humidity in the enclosure doesn't drop below 70%. That's really all you have to do. The female can take control from there.