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Greetings, would it be possible for you to take an intra coil temperature of your blood maternally incubating those eggs and a background temperature of her enclosure, I am curious about the difference in ambient temperature and her intra coil temperature, I was not aware of blood pythons being able to raise the temperature of their eggs like other pythons do.(never seen it documented) For example: Ball Pythons need to leave their eggs, bask, then return to properly incubate them because they do not use the same means as reticulatus, sebae,and P.m. bivittatus. I have documented reticulatus keeping their eggs at 89-90 degrees against a 78 degree background temperature. I use a temperature probe type thermometer (which most people that keep snakes have.)

Thanks,
Frank Roberts
R&R Herpetological
Roberts 'Realm Of Reptile Research

Hey Frank,

For what it may be worth, I read some time back that Bloods (Borneo's) can actually raise their body temp a few degrees during incubation! Not sure if it was something from what VPI had written , but I'm 99% sure I did read that about them and I was surprised to hear it. Not much to go on, but it's something (I guess)...

Matt

Thanks Matt for the info, that's why I am so interested in her sampling this info, I not saying bloods don't, just never seen it documented, but if she takes temps and snakes is raising the temp of those eggs against a lower ambient background temp well that will prove they do for sure.

Thanks for answering and if you ever find that info please post it here, I am extremely interested in such things in all python species

Frank

Frank,thanks for the inquiry.Unfortunately I do not have a probe,however I do have a temp gun.Her surface temp is between 80* - 85*.So it really wouldn't take to much for her to raise the core temp to 90*.I did observe her twitching in the evening in order to raise temps.Very interesting.She also arranged the eggs in a more pyramid fashion in order to brood them.This morning I noticed she dug under the substrate and curled her tail around the bottom of the eggs.I believe the eggs are COMPLETELY SUSPENDED in her coils now.Very Kool stuff.
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