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I am sure someone posted a similiar question to mine but I dont have time right now to look so heres my dilema.....

I have a gravid Kingsnake and she will be ready to lay soon. My concern is how to incubate the eggs and how to maintain the proper tempartures. I live in NY and the weather is warming up but no way near enough to incubate eggs on their own. The room temps in my house is also rather cold, usually in the 60s.(Brr I hate the cold). Turning up the thermostat is not an option since I dont pay the bill and there is no warm room I can utilize.

My questions are how should I incubate them and how should I keep the eggs at the proper tempature of 80-85 degrees??

Thanks in advance,

Drew

>>I am sure someone posted a similiar question to mine but I dont have time right now to look so heres my dilema.....

I am sure i know the answer but i don't have time right now to post it...

I couldn't resist the other answer. You're too busy to look, but we shouldn't be too busy to help you conserve your time and energy? Poor form.

Nevertheless, a quick suggestion: Buy a plastic shoebox and a larger plastic sweater box. Put the smaller box, with the incubation material you'll use, inside the larger box. Put a thermometer inside. Close the box. Aim a desk lamp at the box. Monitor the temp. See if you can achieve a range of 78-82 by adjusting how close the light is or how high a wattage bulb is used. Or try adding a second light. Or buy a small heat tape to put under part of the larger box and monitor temps & adjust accordingly. Or you could try a drug store-type heating pad, the kind someone might rest a sore forearm on, and put part of it under part of the box, and monitor temps and again adjust accordingly.

terry