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For the following you will need
1 glass aquarium (10 gallon for 1-2 clutches)
1 aquatic heater (I recommend using one with a built in thermostat)
1-2 bricks
1 rubbermaid container (10 gallon holds 1 6 qt. container)
1 digital thermometer with probe

Step 1.
Get your snakes knocked up

Step 2.
Place brick(s) and heater in the bottom of the aquarium (do NOT plug in yet!)(Make sure the heater is NOT in contact with the bricks or egg box!)

Step 3.
Place the egg box on top of the brick(s)

Step 4.
Fill the aquarium with water untill egg box floats

Step 5.
Remove water untill egg box stops floating (This step may seem redundant but if you get the water level just right then it will save you a refill later!)

Step 6.
Allow 30 minutes for the aquarium heater to adjust to the water temperature

Step 7.
Place the probe of the digital thermometer INSIDE the egg box and plug in the heater.

Step 8.
Allow 12 hours for the water temperature to regulate and then adjust heater as necesary.

Step 9.
Bake for 50-70 days or untill golden brown.

Please forgive the bad pictures but apparently my camera has issues with photographing glass









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.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
.1 MO Locale Black Ratsnake "Molly" (Flogging Molly)

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Nice job. I hatched my very first clutch of corn snake eggs with that exact setup and had 100% hatch rate (20 out of 20!) That's a very good setup for someone with just a few eggs to incubate.

dg

So Do you drill holes for vent in top or side of inner container;?- and I see you put a screen top on. How is it that you keep the humidity high; and the water temp at or near the same temp?

No I don't plan to drill holes. As long as you open the container for a minute or two every week they should be fine. The aquatic heater regulates the temps. The humidity is kept up by the water that was added to the perlite in advance.
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.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
.1 MO Locale Black Ratsnake "Molly" (Flogging Molly)

"Have you ever tried simply turning off the T.V., sitting down with your kids... and hitting them?"

Thanx for the response

1.0 green tree python ( Aru Type )
0.1 Black Rat
0.1 S. Black Racer
0.2 Blue Racer
1.1 Cal Kings ( albino )
0.1 Southern Copperhead
1.2 Broadband Copperheads
1.0 Fla Red Phase Water snake
0.1 Fla Brownbanded Water snake
0.0.1 Northern Water snake
0.2 Colorado River Toads
Countless rodents

I did the same thing, but with a styrofoam container. Holds air temp and humidity better, I think (they still loose water here in the desert, even without a screen top). Cooling racks from walmart work much better than bricks, lightweight and hold the eggs higher so you don't have to worry about water level so much.
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