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So my incubator is set at 89 deg but my eggs are showing 86/87 deg when I hit them with the temp gun . . . . . Should I raise the temps so the eggs are 88/89 or am I getting the desired temps already??

Thanks for the help!
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Seems like a really good question. Sure hope somebody responds b/c the Barker book doesn't seem to address this directly. Tosha usually has good answers to these kinds of questions.

I always have gone by the temp on my Helix. I set it to 89 or so, and left it. I never checked the actual egg temps. If you JUST put them in, they might be still warming up to the air temp.

Dave

I have noticed that when I temp gun my eggs they are usually a few degrees cooler than the ambient (which is in my case a good thing as my ambients usually too high in my incubator). Since many breeders are now lowering their incubation temps down to the 86* range I think you'd be just fine leaving your temps where they are. But I'm still playing around with finding what works best I'm sure you'll get better responses from more experienced people.
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Thanks for the answer tosh, you always have good answers and that one made me feel all warm and fuzzy about my temps . . .I don't know why im sweating it so much . . . Guess I want my first python clutch to hatch like my first colubrid clutch, 15 babies out of 14 eggs with no slugs or bad eggs, still have a hard time beleveing I hit twins in my first clutch lol
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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)
0.1 genetic reduced pattern
0.1 black back
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
1.0 snow corn
0.1 amel corn (did not prove out of 14 eggs 2b het anery)
0.1 amel corn
0.1 amel corn
0.1 ghost motley corn
1.0 love line (creamcicle?) okatee
0.1 love line okatee
1.0 albino vanishing pattern nelsons
2.0 Het albino vanishing pattern nelsons
0.1 blue tail monitor (adult male wanted)
2.0 Reed frogs
2.2 felines aka boa food ;o
And I am not gonna count all those rats . . .

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Brian
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I've successfully hatched ball python eggs at 85 degrees. Takes longer, but the babies came out just fine.
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