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In fact this is the first time in my household.Ruby laid eggs today.I came home to 12 eggs,scattered everywhere.I was unprepared with no incubator.I had never made one before.I knew I had about an hour to make one.Then I remember reading Bob Clarks latest article in "Reptiles Magazine"It said pythons are well equiped with regulating temps and humidity themselves.They'd been doing great without incubators for millions of years.So I made a nest box and arranged them in a cluster and put her on it.She took to the eggs like ducks to water.Now if I can get her to eat a little at a time.

THE DAY BEFORE CLEANING HER CAGE

RIGHT AFTER I PUT HER ON THE EGGS

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Ashley Lopez's Black Forest Constrictors.
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Best of luck with them, Ashley! You might consider covering all around her with sphagnum/orchid moss. I've never tried maternal incubation, but if the areas (void) around her are covered up, you can lightly mist that to keep the humidity up. I would think if you can keep the temps around 85 she will do the rest (keeping them a little higher). VERY cool!

Matt

Matt,
Thanks.Good idea.Do you know where I can get a bag of SPAGNUM MOSS?
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Ashley Lopez's Black Forest Constrictors.
blackforestconstrictors@gmail.com
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Congrats and good luck!!! You can buy it at Lowes,Home Depot and any garden store should have it this time of year.
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Tim Rash
www.nocturnal-creations.com

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Awesome Ash! Good luck with that clutch!

Big congrats..good thing we have a few incubators just in case things like that happen. Should be interesting to see how everything goes if they all go full term. Never let anything of ours maternally incubate any eggs, would be neat though in some ways.
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-Amelia
ES Tropicals

Nie ed female...was wondering what the male looked like ?
Paul Edwards