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Hell All,

I have a young pair of Children's Pythons. I have had them for several years now and this year I got 5 eggs from the femail. She started incubating them as a good pthon would. I chose to take them from her and put them into my incubator. I incubated the eggs at 80 degrees F and about 60% humidity on damp vermiculite. I candled them before I put them into the incubator and all but one shower blood vessels. The one unfertile egg molded. I carefully removed it from the bunch without damaging the other eggs.

I let he eggs sit undisturded for two weeks. When I finnaly checked them all had collapsed and most had turned brown. Then smell was rotten.

Can anyone with a little Children's python experience give me a few pointers for next season?

Thank you for your time,

Brian
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Brian

"The Earth was not given to you by your parents. It is loaned to you by your children."

1.0 Argentine Tegu
1.0 Bearded Dragons
1.0 Jungle Carpet Python
1.1 California Kingsnakes
1.1 Children's Python
3.5 Russian Tortoises

Brian,
Two things you might do next year are adjust incubation temp to 87 - 88 F and maintain humidity between 80 and 90%. I bred these numerous times in the 1980's and never had any problems under these conditions.

Kelly

Thank you,

Brian
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Brian

"The Earth was not given to you by your parents. It is loaned to you by your children."

1.0 Argentine Tegu
1.0 Bearded Dragons
1.0 Jungle Carpet Python
1.1 California Kingsnakes
1.1 Children's Python
3.5 Russian Tortoises