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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• Accidental breeding? - varanid, Tue May 11 10:27:25 2010
• No such thing - mikebell, Tue May 11 11:14:48 2010
• could have been an accident - prestigepythons, Tue May 11 12:28:10 2010
• RE: could have been an accident - varanid, Tue May 11 12:30:19 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - anthony james mc, Tue May 11 12:55:14 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - varanid, Tue May 11 14:50:04 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - anthony james mc, Tue May 11 16:52:52 2010
• Agreed.... - amcroyals, Wed May 12 03:44:32 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Tue May 11 17:14:46 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - Shadow4108, Tue May 11 19:54:20 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - varanid, Tue May 11 21:18:36 2010
• Maternal Incubation - RandyRemington, Wed May 12 01:37:10 2010
• RE: Maternal Incubation - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Wed May 12 12:38:45 2010
• RE: Maternal Incubation - zippy00_99, Wed May 12 13:33:00 2010
• RE: Maternal Incubation - anthony james mc, Wed May 12 16:12:55 2010
• The importance of the distinction... - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Wed May 12 21:15:01 2010
• RE: The importance of the distinction... - RandyRemington, Wed May 12 22:59:34 2010
• RE: The importance of the distinction... - anthony james mc, Wed May 12 23:27:12 2010
• RE: The importance of the distinction... - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Thu May 13 01:51:42 2010
• RE: The importance of the distinction... - WALL2WALLREPTILE, Thu May 13 01:33:44 2010
• RE: The importance of the distinction... - RandyRemington, Thu May 13 18:48:43 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - kingofspades, Wed May 12 04:25:05 2010
• RE: Accidental breeding? - varanid, Wed May 12 09:44:32 2010