First, I hope your snake pulls through. Some do!



About egg binding.. do I think larger cages prevent it? Not by themselves. My guess is that the females need a nest spot that they feel is adequate enough. That is much easier to provide in a larger cage. So is a nice temperature gradient. And the snake is able to crawl around more=more exercise. I think all of the above helps to reduce the chances.



When I bred lots of kings and milks, I had some of the larger animals become eggbound when I went to racks with smaller boxes (28qt). Before that I used larger tanks and never had eggbound females. That was it for me. Nothing against racks persay, but I hate to see 4ft kings in 14x20 boxes.



Of course, 48qt boxes that you mentioned sound quite large. Maybe you should try to provide a few nest sites and see what happens next year? Good luck.

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• Xray of eggs - dawnrenee2000, Tue May 30 10:56:51 2006
• RE: Xray of eggs - pweaver, Tue May 30 12:12:41 2006
• could be... - dawnrenee2000, Tue May 30 12:21:31 2006
• RE: could be... - pweaver, Tue May 30 12:34:45 2006
• timeline.. - dawnrenee2000, Tue May 30 14:10:43 2006
• RE: What type/size cage do you use? n/m - markg, Tue May 30 13:52:54 2006
• rack... - dawnrenee2000, Tue May 30 14:05:15 2006
• egg binding is really demoralizing.. - BobS, Tue May 30 14:38:46 2006
• I know what you mean - dawnrenee2000, Tue May 30 16:44:24 2006
• RE: I know what you mean - hwh, Tue May 30 21:15:37 2006
• A little venting on egg binding - zach_whitman, Tue May 30 21:34:14 2006
• oh, one more thing - zach_whitman, Tue May 30 21:35:49 2006
• RE: Do I think.. yes and no - markg, Wed May 31 01:50:05 2006