I wrote Dave Barker regarding the differences between VPI's and the Sutherland's incubation methods in their videos. VPI uses large trashcans for containers and SK uses small styrofoam boxes. Here was his response to this and in regards to the refrigerator incubator...Responses?
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All ball pythons eggs need to hatch is temperatures ranging from about 88-91 and very high humidity. They will not tolerate any wetness or dampness.
The smaller the incubation container, the greater the degree of difficulty in hatching the eggs, because the dynamics of high humidity become increasingly complex. If there is not a lot of airspace in the incubation container, then it may be necessary to “breathe” the eggs—however, every time you do that, you let water out of your system. If the incubator is small, you also let cool air into the system, which further acts to condense humidity out of the air. If the system isn’t very big to begin with, then you are gradually drying out your eggs—not good.
You are making a common mistake of many ball python breeders. You shouldn’t try to fit the eggs in a substandard incubator. If what you want to do is hatch ball pythons eggs, (if this is some income-generating project) it makes better sense to put the eggs in the ideal incubation container, and then create the ideal incubator to handle your containers.
Lots of ball python eggs have hatched in refurbished refrigerators. It can be done. But it’s not as easy and the probability that something will go wrong is greater.
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