Nazza, that is very interesting.

I counted the incubation time for your dione as 35 days. My South Korean dione started pipping after 25 days. I would suggest that your dione are central Chinese in origin, as they have the longest incubation of any of the dione. They are very pretty and hardy snakes. They have large eggs too, and large babies, right?

Congratulations on your success. I agree that cooler temps help with the incubation. I have found that there are problems when the temp gets over 82*F, and when the temp is never lowered during incubation, the eggs can develop too fast, which isn't too good for them. I let my temps cool at night. They can be lowered several degrees, to as low as 78*F, or so, as long as they warm up again the next day. This is all natural.

I had humidity similar to your too. Thanks for the info...

Terry




>>Hi Terry,
>>female laid 7 (or 8??) good eggs and 1 slug the 11 of may: started to hatch all yesterday: 100% live big nice hatchlings
>>First time I breed these snakes 2 years ago the eggs were very hard (as oxycephala eggs), this time were normal (big, but soft as guttata eggs). I had them at 26°C (they are in the same incubator with my eastern indigo eggs) on perlite. I had about 60% of humidity, because when I had higher humidity (80-90%) indigo eggs started to swell too much.
>>I had also a 100% hatch rate with my heterodon, I think that the low incubation temp is the key.
>>Best regards
>>nazzza


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