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I just got a call from someone hatching their first ball python eggs today and the eggs where laid May 15th! I'm thinking that 70 days might be a near record. How long did those 85 deg eggs take MorphKing?

They where using one of those Styrofoam incubators and had normal 88 - 90 deg temps measured on top but I'm thinking the eggs where being cooled through the medium from below and must have been a good bit cooler to take that long.

By the way, if the people who called me read this please let us know how they all turn out. Also, don't forget to move that first egg that slit today into something where it can't come out and get into the heating element of the incubator. Just be sure you have it somewhere in the mid to upper 80's and secluded since you don't want to rush it out of the egg before it finishes absorbing the yolk (usually takes about a day).

My friend in Colorado incubates at 85 and so Does Tony Baum at the OKC Zoo 65 to 70 days is about right on the hatch date. I personally have never incubated at 85 but I have at 93 they pipped at 51 days
We have 50% poss het Genetic Stripes hatching early today that are
due August first incubated at 90 at night and 91.2 during the day this is just what our mother balls would do with the eggs
So far we have never had a birth defect at these temps..
117 eggs in the incubator and more clutches coming most will be due to hatch in August and Sept..

Wes
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