Now did you have all this stuff zinging around in your head? Does that scare you a little.

All great info. I guess I would be back to precision in measuring and time for a worthy thermostat. I moved all my herps into 'the dungeon' so that overheating was not a problem without mechanical failure. Since then I have not had spikes but rather usually have at least one major power outage during incubation time I worry more about that. Thankfully less heat waves in Upstate NY.

This year and in future I have to have two incubators anyway as this is the first year I will (good Lord willing) have clutches from both colubrids and pythons at the same season.

To the OP, sounds like some bad luck and possible spikes and I hope future hatches work better for you.
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Sonya

I'm not mean. You're just a sissy.
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