Hi,

It wasn't very long ago that I was just beginning to learn about incubation myself so take this for what it's worth. You did receive some good advice here. I think more medium would be a good thing for your clutches. Also, a good starting point for incubation, if you are using a medium like vermiculite or perlite, is a 50/50 water to medium ratio (BY WEIGHT). You can also put some eggcrate (the plastic grates that cover flourescent type lights) on top of the medium and then set the eggs on top of that rather than bury them in the medium. That is a common technique.

And as someone mentioned, condensation, at least for the majority of the incubation period, is caused by temperature differential. I use an incubator right now that is subject to condensation within the egg chamber. I know how to make it work now and I can hatch eggs fine with it but I have to monitor it and deal with the temp. inconsistency. Of course it is much better to have your incubator dialed and with even temps all around.

I believe ball python eggs are quite resilient actually given a fertile clutch and reasonable incubation conditions.

Good luck!

Ian

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