Best of luck to you this season with allowing your female to maternally incubate her eggs.

I've maternally incubated successfully for 3 seasons in a row as for raising temps... ball pythons are much differen't from the burms, retics and ect,... who actually can slightly raise their temps...

Balls really don't do much of anything but just sit on those eggs during incubation. So long as you feed your females very well in the off season and leading up to/during breeding season female ball pythons will do a great job doing what they have instinctively done for millions of years!


Sounds like your temps are good but I would try to bump the humidity up... something that I have found to help is adding some damp wrungout perlite in the enclosure whether in it's own little "moss box" type of container with holes for the moisture to escape into the cage or just placed inside the tub on one side/floor of the enclosure... I would also recommend keeping the waterbowl right next to her and the eggs as well so she doesn't have too uncoil much to get a drink... Anything to make it easier on the female is always nice.

I tried to pull up some pics from my photobucket account... But my company has blocked the use of photobucket!! =(


I'll post some pics later...

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• Maternal incubation - mykee, Mon Jun 28 15:05:02 2010
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• RE: Maternal incubation - JYohe, Mon Jun 28 18:45:52 2010
• RE: Maternal incubation - AllBalledUp, Mon Jun 28 20:29:25 2010
• RE: Maternal incubation - Pitoon, Tue Jun 29 02:34:20 2010
• RE: Maternal incubation - mykee, Tue Jun 29 09:46:51 2010