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Just curious---what are some of the longest incubation times some of you guys have had with mountain kings? (successful incubations) As Jerry knows, I have a damaged egg that I cut open at day 95 and I am at day 106 now. The snake appears O.K. and I can see it moving from time to time through the wide open egg but there is still quite a bit of yolk to absorb.

Mine hatch right at about 90 days for the last five years. I keep them incubated in the low 70s temp wise. I have had no problems with these lower temps at all.

S'up brother. I told you don't worry! It's likely you had some temp flux there, as 106 days IS kinda long, but warm it up a bit if you can to speed it along. That neo should be fully developed and I can't see you waiting more than another week or so. Temp stability is important. I start my eggs out at about 80 for the first couple weeks and then drop to the low-mid 70's for the remainder of the incubation process. I have always faithfully used an indoor/outdoor digital thermometer that has an outdoor sensor connected via cord so that I can read the air temp in the snake room by the main part of the thermometer and the inside of the incubation box via the outdoor sensor probe. If you can't find one I will send one to you.

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Jerry Kruse

And God said, "Let there be zonata subspecies for all to ponder..."

Thanks gents. The baby appears to have good color from what I can see and I hope comes on out for some air soon. I had that one egg incubating in the snake room at ambient temps and you are right about the variation in temps. As the summer started to heat up the room was going from 71 to 75-76. That egg should have hatched by now but as Doug (snakebit) says---"they don't read the books". The siblings to this egg hatched at day 72 when incubated at 82 degrees. I was trying that little temp experiment to see the differnce. If the baby hatches I shall post some pics to show any differences there might be.

...but everytime I've had eggs go much longer than normal (which seems to be the case here)...the neonate(s) have been deformed.

Sorry...just my observation.

-Rusty

No need to be sorry brother. Your observations are always well received by me and in this case were right. The baby was deformed from mid body down and died in the egg several days ago. There was still half of the yolk that was not absorbed and it was like day 108 or something. Snake never had a chance in the first place. Thanks for the insight.