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I am going to breed kenyan sand boas and childrens pythons, and if I can get my hands on them some house snakes in the near future when I convince my parents or buy the snakes. The kenyans need no incubator as they give live birth but the others do. To get an incubator running could I buy a submersible heater and set it to the temp like for childrens I need about an 84 temp. would a ten gallon or a styrophoam box work better? I would use the bricks to keep it out of the water and should I put the water up to the container with the eggs or slightly onto it not over like 1/2 inch onto? Would this work right? and what should I use? Once I get the best ideas I will toy around with it to get perfect temps.
Thanks for your responses Josh
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thanks Josh

0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
1.0.0 corn snake
1.0.0 childrens python
1.0.0 het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 sunbeam snake(any help with these guys even when not on a post about them will help thanks)
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1. black and white kenyan sand boa
some mice
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

A 10 gallon tank works great. I bought the tank and heater at walmart. I kept my corn eggs at 84 degs, and the temp barely ever changed. I only had a piece of cardbourd and styrofoam on top. Derek

That's exactly what I did for my ball python eggs, they just hatched over the weekend. The only thing I added to what you described is a screen top. On that I layed a big lid to a tupperware container to help hold in the moisture, and a folded up towel over that to hold in the heat. For python eggs, the temperature had to be more constant, so I had to invest in a more expensive submersible heater, with tighter tolerances. The eggs were half buried in moistened vermiculite, and I opened the top of the container every 4 days or so and fanned them, toxic gasses build up in there. Here are the pics, before, during and after.

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1.1 Jungle Carpet Python
1.1 Ball Python
1.1 Corn Snake
0.1 Gray band Kingsnake
0.1 Desert Kingsnake
0.1 Pueblan Milksnake
1.0 Bullsnake
1.0 Rhodesian Ridgeback
0.1 Spouse
0.0.8 hatchling ball pythons

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thanks Josh

0.0.1 vine snake
1.1.0 turtles
0.1.0 greek tortoise
1.0.0 ball python
1.0.0 corn snake
1.0.0 childrens python
1.0.0 het for albino san diego gopher snake
0.0.1 sunbeam snake(any help with these guys even when not on a post about them will help thanks)
0.0.1 rosehair tarantula
0.1. black and white kenyan sand boa
some mice
and what ever lizards my vine snake hasn't eaten yet

I used 4 bricks, two stacks of two. I filled the water almost to the top of the bricks. Water holds the heat and minimizes temperature fluxuations.
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1.1 Jungle Carpet Python
1.1 Ball Python
1.1 Corn Snake
0.1 Gray band Kingsnake
0.1 Desert Kingsnake
0.1 Pueblan Milksnake
1.0 Bullsnake
1.0 Rhodesian Ridgeback
0.1 Spouse
0.0.8 hatchling ball pythons