We switched to maternal this year and it has been great.



Myth: Females will start eating faster, if you remove her clutch and then wash the tub and her to remove any sent of her clutch.

Truth: Females WILL eat while they are sitting on eggs if they are hungry. You don't need to wash any sent of the clutch off of her or the tub.





Like I said we switched this year. We started heating our reptile room and stopped using belly heat. The room is heated by a regular plug in oil radiator with the thermostat set at 86F. We use newsprint and a bowl of water. Nothing else. No cypress. No aspen. Worked great for us. Every one eats weekly for the most part with a few once every 2 weeks. The mothers on eggs ate every time food was offered. Don't think we will ever switch back. We will keep our incubator as a back up for if or when a female rolls out an egg or doesn't sit on the clutch. We did have a virgin (well was one) decide not to sit on her clutch, so that was put in the bator.

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