Pastel Butter x Spider (Maternal Incubation)

[scterial]

I am sorry that you are in this position . Your reasons for moving the eggs to the incubator are very valid and I hope next year MI will work out for you. Today is Day 25 for my MI eggs and since she is incubating the eggs in her glass tank, I do not have the need to check on her all the time. Usually I just check the temps from the outside and once a day I'd lift her hide box to see if she's okay.

With your conclusion that Charlotte may have abandoned her nest due to constant interfering will help me to lessen my urge to check her constantly. Actually, I have not checked her eggs for over a week now!

Good luck on your clutch and hope they all start pippin soon

[meowmeowkazoo]

I am sorry that you are in this position . Your reasons for moving the eggs to the incubator are very valid and I hope next year MI will work out for you. Today is Day 25 for my MI eggs and since she is incubating the eggs in her glass tank, I do not have the need to check on her all the time. Usually I just check the temps from the outside and once a day I'd lift her hide box to see if she's okay.

With your conclusion that Charlotte may have abandoned her nest due to constant interfering will help me to lessen my urge to check her constantly. Actually, I have not checked her eggs for over a week now!

Good luck on your clutch and hope they all start pippin soon

Thank you! Good luck with your own clutch as well, make sure you take pictures!

[meowmeowkazoo]

Quoting once again, because for some reason my longer/more useful posts seem to be ending up at the bottom of the page.

Here's the information I sent via PM, as other people may find it useful.

I started off a few years ago, stalking Quiet Tempest's threads:

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/searc...earchid=965046

Bob Clark has a good article on it:

http://www.bobclark.com/articles/200603.html

This article is an excellent insight into how maternal incubation benefits the hatchlings (the study concludes that maternally incubated hatchlings are larger and heavier, with longer jaws):

http://www.researchgate.net/publicat...und_their_eggs

This article provides information on how maternal incubation affects the mother:

http://www.researchgate.net/publicat...80b0e0d1e7.pdf

[meowmeowkazoo]

The shells feel very thin and pliable, like they would be easy to poke through. I started them off at 87.5 degrees and raised the temperature to 88 degrees last night. Charlotte is absolutely ravenous, slamming soft furs like there's no tomorrow.

[steve_r34]

Sucks that u had to pull them .. I wanted to see u make it all the way thru

[meowmeowkazoo]

Today is Day 50 for the eggs.

On another topic, Charlotte had five meals while she was incubating them, but never defecated. My theory is that she was absorbing almost all of the food she ate, resulting in very little waste. She's still pretty light, but still inhaling food.

[meowmeowkazoo]

CHARLOTTE'S EGGS ARE HATCHING. I CAN'T EVEN I'M SO EXCITED OMFG.

[Marissa@MKmorphs]

CHARLOTTE'S EGGS ARE HATCHING. I CAN'T EVEN I'M SO EXCITED OMFG.

Oh my! Congrats!!!!!

That was fast!

[ROACH]

Very nice!!!!!!!!!!

[meowmeowkazoo]

They were only in the incubator for four days, so probably they would have been fine if I left them in with Charlotte. I'm just way too excited to care, LOL.