well guess ill put in my two cents.....i am a first time breeder this year (13 laid 13 hatched, well 2 are still in the egg but soon out) and i cut on the day the first one pip which was like day 55. what you did was wrong and if you had done ANY studying at all you would have known that this was wrong, i mean why else would we build incubators that will hold heat and humity for long periods of time? so maybe next season you could browse the stickys that are all over the web site you just listed on and asked where you can get info on this, oh and for stuff that is not sticky there is a search button for us to use when we need it because im sure there is someone that already made this mistake and that are ready to help..... ask questions just like you did here. good luck with the rest of them



as for 45 day cutting i agree it seems like its a lil early to me too because if they were ready to come out they would pip thus the reason im a first pip kinda person, BUT ive only had one clutch and it was a classic x classic breeding so i already knew nothing was there, so i dont know the felling of having a high dollar snake coming, so i guess id have to be there but i would also feel bad if i killed that high dollar snake because i couldnt wait, so i guess people cut on day 45 cuz they got bux coming if the right thing is there....i guess.