For years I have been using plastic food storage containers for egg laying boxes and I have never been satisfied with them. This year I am going to have several kings over 1000 grams and none will fit into the bins I've been using so I thought I would ask what everyone else uses.
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What do you use for egg laying boxes?
khaman
Dec 30, 2010 01:48 PM
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Jlassiter
Dec 30, 2010 02:23 PM
>>For years I have been using plastic food storage containers for egg laying boxes and I have never been satisfied with them. This year I am going to have several kings over 1000 grams and none will fit into the bins I've been using so I thought I would ask what everyone else uses.
I don't usually use a box for larger adult females.....
I turn the back half of my 32qt tubs into a nesting area.
Lots of damp sphagnum moss covered by a board or 15qt lid.
The females will coil up under the board or lid and lay their eggs there.......
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a153fish
Dec 30, 2010 03:21 PM
I've always used plastic shoe boxes with a hole in the top and a few inches of Vermiculite and spagnum moss. I've never really had any problems this way. Some people have had snakes that refuse the box and scatter eggs or lay them in the water bowl, but I haven't had that happen yet. I did have a corn snake lay most of her eggs in the box and then drop two eggs in the water bowl. The two eggs looked like slugs anyway.
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DMong
Dec 30, 2010 05:38 PM
On large kings etc..., I cut a piece of 1 x 4, then cut a big notch for the female to easily crawl in and out of. Then place this in as a "partition" for their nesting quarters inside their big RubberMaid tubs. Then simply screw it into place from each side so it stays in place.......works great! 
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daveb
Dec 31, 2010 05:20 PM
the biggest container you can find stuffed full of nesting medium. i used to fill the enclosure the female king occupied full with nesting material. as i got smarter, or less dumb i would fill up a 36'x18" neodesha cage full of moist moss and let my pines nest in there. i just slid the glass top closed and left them alone. never had a problem/had my best success that way.
kind of odd but i enjoyed the process of egg laying, incubation and hatching more than the other parts of the hobby.
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