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Just wanted to get a current survey of peoples incubation temps and oppinions for high and low range results ect.
So last year I incubated at 83-84 and both clutches of eggs all hatched 3 days plus or minus the 60 day mark. I was actually trying to speed things up and have them hatch early as I was going on vacation for a couple weeks right after they were to hatch and wanted to make sure they were well started, but they ended up taking 60 days anyway. The one clutch from my anery motley female, the babies were all very nippy and nasty disposition, they were also closer to the heat source in the incubator so they may have been a degree warmer than the triple het clutch. So I am wondering if the high incubation temp caused the bad temper, or was it just genes from the mom, although she is very good natured.
So anyway this year I am incubating with a target temp of 80 degrees. Any thoughts? Oppinions?
Thanks
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com

I personally would not incubate any lower than 80, nor any higher than 85, with the caveat that higher temps are, as usual, more dangerous than low. This is only opinion, but opinion based on 30 years of colubrid breeding....
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG

The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....

I did a little trial and error session with my first clutch of corn snake eggs (my first clutch of snake eggs period) but as I read all litterature that I can get my eyes on I wanted to try varrying my temps because I read a lot about this making the babies stronger right out of the eggs. So I went from 79 all the way up to 87. I Came to find out that temps over 85 tend to cause kinking, so I stopped going that high but they were only at 87 for one week. Any ways I pretty much had them at 81.5 for 80% of the incubation period and hatched out 15 babies out of the 14 eggs she laid (no slugs no bad eggs) (still can't belive I hit twins on my verry first clutch of snakes) any way my point is that my all babies pipped 3 days early except one that I cut a day before they were supposed to hatch (I wanted to do this with a corn egg for the first time versus a ball python or blood python egg) all the hatchlings were very big, healthy and not one kinked . . . .. My corn temps will always be 81.5 baby!!

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1.0 Sunrise (sshhh)
1.0 Yellow Belly
1.0 Het pied
1.0 Green Hypo
1.0 Spider Het B Hypo
0.1 Green Hypo
0.5 Het nerd Orange Hypo
0.2 poss Het nerd Orange Hypo
0.1 poss Het albino
0.1 het pied
0.1 Bell Jungle
0.6 Breeder normals
0.1 black pastel (unproven)
0.1 Tiger ball (unproven)
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0.1 mojave (best looking one ever! thanks Jeff Luman)
0.1 Pastel Het ghost
1.0 salmon boa
0.1 BCI 8.5 ft x m
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0.1 amel corn (did not prove out of 14 eggs 2b het anery)
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0.1 amel corn
0.1 ghost motley corn
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2.0 Het albino vanishing pattern nelsons
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