question and update

[Quiet Tempest]

so lucy is incubating her eggs and doing an amazing job! she's an amazing mother and only a hiss when she's had enough of my prodding...lol so cute. All seven eggs have strong veins now for a better flashlight for better pics. Any whoo I have noticed she is quite a bit thinner now should I offer her a small rat? or something smaller and should I remover her to do it? Also Kona will be due to lay her eggs around the 31st of this month i have my doubts about letting her incubate her own eggs any suggestions? would it be possible to add hers to lucy's clutch or should I just prep an incubator?



sorry so long just sudden thoughts and presnake granny fears

Being thin while brooding isn't such a bad thing. The eggs fit within her coils better that way, imo. If you offer food, I wouldn't use a small rat. I'd offer something a bit smaller - a rat pup or small adult mouse - if anything at all. I did offer my females food recently (live rat pup) and one of them ate while the other was completely disinterested. Another poster here, anatess, is also maternally incubating and said their female has been eating every 10 days. I suppose it's all up to the female in question.

I would say no to adding additional eggs to the existing clutch. I don't know if she would or wouldn't accept them but I believe it would just cause too much stress. If you don't want a second female maternally incubating, just make sure you've got an incubator ready for them.