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Kelly_Haller
at Fri Jun 1 18:22:34 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Kelly_Haller ]
Because female burmese are so adept at maintaining the temperature of the egg mass so precisely, burmese eggs are best incubated within a narrow margin of temps just as the female would. For artificial incubation, anything between 89 and 91 F would be fine.
With maternal incubation, the female actually maintains the egg mass at approximately 92 F for the majority of the incubation period, and this is the highest naturally occurring maternal incubation temp of any python. I have verified this on several occasions by taking egg mass temps, during maternal incubation, with certified thermometers.
Trying to maintain an incubator setup at 92 F would only be recommended if you had a very precise, high dollar system that you could count on not to vary from this temp. Otherwise it is too risky and most people artificially incubate burmese at 90 F to be on the safe side, and allow for system variations in typical incubator temps.
Kelly
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Incubation temps for burmese ....... - Kelly_Haller, Fri Jun 1 18:22:34 2007