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    Re: mother lost an egg

    Quote Originally Posted by Foschi Exotic Serpents View Post
    With maternal incubation, if the humidity is not very high, closer to 80% or more, and the ambient temperature at least 85 degrees, you will lose all the eggs. They can not properly incubate in their enclosure without greatly tweaking the stats.

    BPs should never be housed together. Period. Once the male has bred the female they are to be separated.

    After the first day, if an egg rolls or gets tipped, the baby will most likely die. They are not like chicken eggs. They need to stay upright once they are On the ground.

    Oi.
    You shouldn't have to greatly tweak stats if you're already maintaining a habitat that closely simulates what they'd be living in if they were in some African termite mound. If the enclosure is conducive to healthy behavior and intact sheds then it's likely going to be conducive to brooding as well.

    Egg rolling isn't an automatic death sentence, either. I know others here on the board have experimented with this to see what effect it had on the eggs to turn them at various points during incubation. The result was that every egg hatched. No problems. I had an egg that rolled out multiple times last year because it just wasn't adhering to the rest of the eggs in the pile and it still hatched without issue.

    Not trying to tear down your comment here but if it can spare others the anxiety of finding a roll out and fearing the worst, it's important info to share. I know I was pulling my hair out when I found my roll out the first time and trying to figure out which end was "up". In the end, it really didn't matter. Eggs are incredibly resilient and they are capable of "self-correction" in the event of being rolled or turned during incubation. It's forceful trauma like falling that can mean sudden death for eggs.

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