"I have never had a female burmese or Sri Lanka python leave the eggs completely during incubation."

That why I said, "...seemingly "stretching her legs", so to speak." I was trying to be careful not to mislead anyone.

I know the temp was high where mine nested last year. If I remember correctly the ambient temp was about 91 near the nesting area. The few times she left the eggs she basically just sort of stretched out for a few minutes & then recoiled. I wondered if it was due to too high temps but didn't feel like she left them long enough for her to consder them to have cooled down much.

Kelly, have you seen or noticed a pattern of first-time mother Burmese laying their eggs under the heat source, in too high of a temperature? Just curious since mine did it last year but not this year, and now this one in this post did it.

Thanks for posting that photo. I looked for it earlier but couldn't find it.

Take care!
Mike
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• Eggs - jsbarnwell, Mon May 5 14:27:39 2008
• RE: Eggs - HappyHillbilly, Mon May 5 15:34:28 2008
• RE: Eggs - jsbarnwell, Mon May 5 16:18:23 2008
• RE: Eggs - HappyHillbilly, Mon May 5 20:31:29 2008
• RE: Eggs - jsbarnwell, Mon May 5 21:11:19 2008
• Contraction rate..... - Kelly_Haller, Mon May 5 22:30:52 2008
• RE: Eggs - jsbarnwell, Tue May 6 10:35:22 2008
• RE: Eggs - HappyHillbilly, Tue May 6 11:08:54 2008
• RE: Eggs - HappyHillbilly, Tue May 6 10:38:28 2008
• RE: Eggs - jsbarnwell, Tue May 6 12:01:03 2008
• RE: Eggs - HappyHillbilly, Tue May 6 13:00:39 2008
• RE: Eggs - jsbarnwell, Tue May 6 15:50:53 2008
• Maternal incubation setup...... - Kelly_Haller, Wed May 7 00:52:42 2008
• RE: Maternal incubation setup...... - HappyHillbilly, Wed May 7 01:33:20 2008
• Thanks for all the help (I screwed up) - jsbarnwell, Wed May 7 15:47:41 2008
• RE: Thanks for all the help (I screwed up) - jsbarnwell, Wed May 7 20:44:45 2008
• RE: No you didn't - HappyHillbilly, Wed May 7 21:58:51 2008
• RE: No you didn't - jsbarnwell, Wed May 7 22:50:56 2008
• Ambient temps...... - Kelly_Haller, Wed May 7 23:35:40 2008
• RE: Ambient temps...... - jsbarnwell, Thu May 8 08:57:46 2008
• RE: Ambient temps...... - BenR79, Thu May 8 10:05:54 2008
• RE: No you didn't - HappyHillbilly, Thu May 8 00:42:16 2008
• RE: No you didn't - jsbarnwell, Thu May 8 08:50:12 2008