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if a female were to incubate her eggs with a substrate of wet paper towels would it hurt the eggs if they were sitting on water all the time?
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jake

my addiction:
0.2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
0.1 amelenistic corn snake (maizy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)
1.0 albino cal king (zeus)
0.0.1 wc garter (zim)
hybrid breeders association
hybrid haven

If a female laid on that wet of a substrate for that long, she might get belly rot.

good point, i was thinking of the eggs more than the mom.

i think im just going to buy an incubator when i breed
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jake

my addiction:
0.2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
0.1 amelenistic corn snake (maizy)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)
1.0 albino cal king (zeus)
0.0.1 wc garter (zim)
hybrid breeders association
hybrid haven

Or use something better than wet paper towels to keep the humidity up, like damp (but not sopping wet) sphagnum moss or better yet damp vermiculite/perlite.

When Mom gets ready to lay she will push all the substrate aside to make nest - so she would likely push the paper towels aside and lay them directly on the tub.
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Tosha
JET Pythons