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I was put in a difficult position last night when my girlfriend turned a switch off that turned the power out of my incubator. The incubator had my first clutch of black tail cribo eggs. The light switch had a note over it saying "DO NOT TURN OFF" in all caps, so I am left forced to have to offer her up for trade.

So anyone interested in an female Homo sapien sapien that is guaranteed not to get more than 5 ft and stays around 100 lbs, I am willing to trade for any Drymarchon of equal value to 4.3 baby Drymarchon melanurus (giving you the value benefit of the likely sex ratio of the un-hatched eggs.

She is good with snakes but needs to be supervised around incubators. Here is a photo from a few years ago and I can have more recent photos available upon request.

i could trade you a reliable incubator pictured below that has handled everything thrown at it. you have to come pick it up.

don't know what i'd do with her, as i already have a wonderful wife. just tryin to help you out a bit.

i bet your eggs will be OK.

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haha, your incubator actually has a similar design as the one I am using. My incubator is great by GLK herp, and I use it for eggs I really care about, and put other eggs in my $3800 incubator from another company. But no incubator will hold a temp forever with the power off.

The eggs actually had already started to sink in and lose the veins (some completely) by the time I found it.

But I do appreciate the offer.

Good luck to you SoLa, you are treading on thin ice...she must be a pretty good sport inspite of doing something you both regret...

In my limited experience, eggs seem more resilient to cooler than ideal rather than hotter...but of course we don't know the extremes they experienced. I had a similar fiasco with eggs last season, sometime "stuff" happens and in my case, I just hired the wrong guy, he just does not think animal husbandry...

Good luck with your snakes and your lady friend, Vic

I think more than the temp drop, I am having trouble trying to correct the humidity drop when the heat was cut. The eggs deflated and trying to nurse them back up is a touchy task and every time I think I am close, another egg goes completely flat. But yes, heat would have been worse. Unfortunately the cool might have been bad enough to do the trick.

She seems understanding that I need to do what I need to do on the trade deal, but getting the updated photo requests I received has really been like pulling teeth : )

This would also have to factor in how good HER sex ratio is.....LMAO. Just kidding. One of the better posts I've seen. Good stuff.
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Jerry Kruse
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Probably in my best interest, I made a response that did not go through because I was not singed in, but I wasn't quite sure what your reply meant...but I talked to her, and she said it seemed pretty clear the deal was for 0.1 Homo sapiens sapiens and no offspring were offered : )

And in hopes I don't cross the line too much, I would say this is a female more than capable of mating, but with no intention of reproducing. So this might or might not be of greater or lesser interest : )