Two nights ago, outside temperatures dropped to 6☌ and I had to run all three heat sources all night and still couldn't get the temp higher than 30☌.

Though well insulated, standing on the patio outside the house, the incubator still responds to outside temperature. There are three heat sources which I can switch on and off individually - two basking globes in the ceiling of the incubator and a heat mat underneath the plastic box with the eggs, with a glass plate in between. The sensor of the thermostat is inside the box with the eggs. The thermostat is set to a range of 25 to 38 and alarms me with sound and light when the temperature gets out of this range. Heat: I am trying to keep the heat at or around 32 ☌. When I keep the egg container sealed, condensate water accummulates on the sides of the box, so by now I have opened the box once a day to wipe away the water, so I can see the eggs and the temperature and humidity meters which are inside the box. The DIY incubator is quite large - a 4 foot high fridge with glass door and two heat sources in the ceiling.

I have a bowl with water standing at the bottom of the incubator. What do you think is better? We live in a very dry area with low air humidity. Other guides say that you should make holes for ongoing ventilation on the sides of the container. Question 1: Some guides say that you should keep the container sealed and air it once a week and in the last week before hatching every day. The bad egg I put in an extra little container next to it, under the same conditions. Then I washed the place where her eggs had been to remove the smell and minimise stress of searching for them when she would come back to the aviary.įor incubating, I took a sealed plastic box, put vermiculite mixed with water (50:50 according to weight, not volume) into it, placed the heaps of glued-together eggs in there, and put the box into the incubator, with the lid on. I then washed the mother with warm water and a gentle soap and put her into her indoor enclosure. Next morning she left the eggs to go basking in the sun and at that occasion, I carried the eggs away and put them into the incubator. I have kept her in the outdoor aviary at that time, as it was hot outside, and she laid the eggs on a mattress underneath a blanket underneath a plastic hood (top part of a hooded cat litter box), not into the box filled with snake bedding which I had prepared, and curled very tightly around them so there was no way how I could take her away. Five days ago, my Murray Darling python girl called 'Darling' laid eggs - 27 good ones and one bad, which one she kicked out.

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