Okay.. so I wanted to throw this idea out there to you guys who have been using the "new" technique of a deeper lay box for your hognose snakes.



Has anyone thought about creating a separate nest site like you do for bearded dragons? I bred them for years and when they were close to laying we removed them to special "lay boxes" filled with dirt and a clamp light for heat. We let them lay and then cleaned them and moved them back into their regular cages.



What do you guys think about this technique? Buying a 12" or 15" deep plastic tote, filling it with coco fiber if you like, setting up a clamp lamp for heat, and leaving the female in there once she sheds until she lays?



Why place a plastic top with a hole in it? Is this to give the female a way to get off the substrate? Or to similate something more like nesting down in a hole. It would seem to me it would be harder for her to move the substrate around with the top.



Anyway, just looking for flaws in this thought process.



Thanks to all who have been sharing similar ideas and results.



Last season I got a lot of bad eggs and I am wondering if this could have been stress and holding the eggs to long from not having a proper nest site.
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