Has anyone ever had a clutch hatch out in 30 to 40 days?

[don15681]

In VPI's ball python book, they had success breeding at temps from 86 to 92 F. it also saids that a ball python exporter in Ghana incubated ball pythons eggs at ambient temperatures up to 100 degress F with high rate of success. and logan (1973) hatched eggs after 97 days at 80.5 degree F. can it be possible? would I incubate at 100 degrees F? No, Just wanted to throw this out there, if someone wants to do the math for an estimate at roughly how long at 100 F if this is true would it take?

[jjmitchell]

Yup...... dont think that its possible (had to miss eggs... or maybe gamma ray radiation but you wont like those snakes when they are angry).... but ya know what happens when you enter an argument with an idiot.

Lol picture Lou Ferrigno as a snake.....

[Jeremy78]

In VPI's ball python book, they had success breeding at temps from 86 to 92 F. it also saids that a ball python exporter in Ghana incubated ball pythons eggs at ambient temperatures up to 100 degress F with high rate of success. and logan (1973) hatched eggs after 97 days at 80.5 degree F. can it be possible? would I incubate at 100 degrees F? No, Just wanted to throw this out there, if someone wants to do the math for an estimate at roughly how long at 100 F if this is true would it take?

About 39 days if my math is correct.

80.5/97=0.830
89/56=1.589
100/X=Y

Y=1.589-0.830=0.759/8.5=0.089
Y=o.089X11=0.982+1.589=2.571
Y=2.571

X=2.571x39=100

Therefore 39 days at 100*F.

[Gloryhound]

Shortest I've had was 53 days. On the other side though we have one clutch that still has babies coming out on day 66 right now. I know the temps were good as other clutches in the same incubator were hatching in crawling out by day 56.

While Jeremy's math is good we also have an issue with more variables, such as time out of incubator to check on the eggs, temp of water added during incubation, and the list goes on. Actually I was looking into a little due to the recent clutch and found some references putting some varience of incubation time up to a genetic variable.