Quote Originally Posted by Matt K View Post
Very cool stuff. Do you find that there is a temperature difference between eggs at the top of the clutch versus the eggs that are in more direct contact with the belly heat? Do you adjust belly temperatures at all for the brooding process, or just leave everything as is? Thanks for constantly updating us on your maternally incubated clutches!

Cheers,
-Matt
To be honest, I haven't stuck a probe into the pile to see if there is a difference in temps according to egg position. From what I've seen with this and past clutches, when the female coils around the eggs, they're usually gripped by mom and held slightly above the floor so they're not always in direct contact with the substrate and belly heat. I wouldn't think there would be much difference because of that but now I'm curious and may have to find a spare thermometer probe and see.

This particular female is not as lax with my curiosities as my other girls have been or I would have gotten some candling pics up by now. lol I'm taking things slow with her so she isn't hissing and threatening to strike every time I open her tub. I will get some candling shots up in the near future and see about getting a probe in there to test temperatures at the top and bottom of the pile while the mom is brooding as well.