Hey Anthony,

Yeah, you hit the nail on the head.

I remember during that experiment above, I had constructed a fancy egg laying box for one of the Burmese Pythons.
She had laid in the classic "inverted position" while inside of the box for a few weeks prior to oviposition...but, on the day she finally laid the eggs....she crawled outside the box and laid the eggs on the cage floor. lol.

After the temperature experiment, I removed this female's eggs for artificial incubation. (I allowed another female Burm to continue with maternal incubation.) Anyway, after removing the first female's eggs...that Mama would continue to visit the oviposition site and begin to try to thermo-regulate the cage floor! I removed the paper and scrubbed the cage. I washed the female too. Finally, about 2 weeks later, she accepted her first post-oviposition meal....a small rabbit.
I usually start them out with a smaller first meal...and then get them back into the swing of things, once their digestive system seems to be ready to rock and roll.

Take care,
Harlin Wall - WALL TO WALL REPTILES!
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