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Heard you had a mother who left her eggs. I've got one who did it last Sunday, and I've got two eggs pipping right now. All I did was bump up the humidity and crossed my fingers.

How has your luck been?

Quinton

I pulled them and put them in the incubator - she was off of them for 6 days and they were starting to look really dehydrated. If they were further along I would have probably just bumped temps but I still have 4 or 5 weeks left!

Glad to hear your are pippin! Be sure to post picts!
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Tosha

"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"

6.34.0 Ball Python (Harry and Fluffy and gang)
1.0.0 Angolan Python (Anakin Skywalker)
0.0.1 Green Tree Python (Verdi)
0.1.0 Bredls Python (Smurfette)
0.2.0 Feline (Pippen and Pandora)
0.0.1 Desert Tortoise (Pope John Paul aka JP )
2.2.1 Fish (1,2,3,4)
0.0.4 frogs rescued from pool skimmer
0.0.0 Lizards of unknown origin

ok i know i have almost no experience compared to many others here, but ill throw in my 2 cents.
one of my females laid for the first time this year, she laid 5 eggs but wasnt taking care of them at all,( i was planning on maternal incubationbut with this development i had to act fast)
i took a 11 x 11 piece of flexwatt, screwed it into the top piece of a styrofoam box from a fish wholsale petshop, and set it up like any other incubator. took me about 10 minutes to set up, and i adjusted after the eggs were in.

all 5 eggs are doing very well so if you have concerns about your ignored eggs surviving, you could try this. my method is keeping the humidity at 80% and the thermostat keeps it at a steady 31 celcius. it is very cheap to set up the most expensive part was the thermostat, which s from an old waterbed, and the heat tape.

best of luck

I had a Hovavator on hand just in case - but I was having a hard time maintaining a good temp with the hovabator heating element - so I took some heat rope and wrapped it around a piece of wood and put that on the bottom of the incubator and I'm using that as heat instead of the Hov's heating element - it seems ot be working much better - my eggs are nice and plump now.

Keeping my fingers crossed !!
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Tosha

"Nihil facimus sed id bene facimus"

6.34.0 Ball Python (Harry and Fluffy and gang)
1.0.0 Angolan Python (Anakin Skywalker)
0.0.1 Green Tree Python (Verdi)
0.1.0 Bredls Python (Smurfette)
0.2.0 Feline (Pippen and Pandora)
0.0.1 Desert Tortoise (Pope John Paul aka JP )
2.2.1 Fish (1,2,3,4)
0.0.4 frogs rescued from pool skimmer
0.0.0 Lizards of unknown origin

LOL
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