Heres what is important. A person reports something to you, and I do not care who it is, Gregg, me, or anyone.
To you, what you read, is theory or whatever your currently saying, hypothesis etc, your right, it is, until you work with the method, whatever the method is.
With something applied, like husbandry, techniques require working(to apply, adjust, apply again, and adjust somemore) The method then produces results. You can keep adjusting and keep getting better results. How good the results are, depends on how well the method is applied. The reasons are simple. I do not care what method you use, if you let the substrate dry out, or spoil(leave crap in the high humidity) The snakes will not nest well. So all methods require proper maintenance.
One of the reasons I use larger boxes is because of that. I can mix up the substrate and its good for many weeks. So I never have to adjust it during the nesting period. Heck, the eggs could even hatch in there, Larger mass, the longer it stays within the good range.
In Greggs case, there could be many reasons, the simplest has already been explained, marginal nesting can effect future reproduction, such as oviduct scaring. So after that occurs, better nesting helps, but cannot cure previous problems. He could have females with previous problems.
Or, his cages are too small, and they need adjusting often and that is neglected. Again, I cannot tell you what his actual problem is, but its something we all went thru.
When you in particular, keep saying, its theory or hypothesis, it is to you. All you are doing is talking about a method. But not to Will, Gregg and I who have done it. In my case for decades. pt 1

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