Quote Originally Posted by Homegrownscales View Post
I just read this whole study and I'm quite interested. I was taught that maternal inc was more stressful on the mother and therefor shouldn't be risked. Although I am seriously giving a thought of taking a go at it. I was origanally thinking if doing 1-2 clutches like this but maybe I'll do more.
Quiet tempest: I have read from you that mothers eat while brooding. What's the method you use to safely get them to eat without disturbance of the eggs? Do you find that they eat regularly? Beyond that you keep the eggs the same with a bit more humidity in the rack correct?
I don't ordinarily have to make any changes to to tubs. I did add more cypress and moistened sphagnum moss with this one just because the humidity was in the 50-55% range and I wanted it up at least another 10-20%. It jumped up to 95% after adding the extra substrate and moss but seems to have leveled off at 85% now.

As for feeding, I ordinarily just place a fresh killed rat in the tub near the female. If she's hungry, she'll uncoil either partially or entirely and go after it. The eggs are usually stuck together so even if she strikes from her coil, the eggs are still safe in their pile. Once she's finished eating, she'll wrap around her clutch again. I did offer her a rat a few days ago but she want it. I'll offer her food again next week and see if she's more interested then.