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This is the first time I am breeding colubrids and the female had her pre-lay shed yesterday. Will she stay with the eggs or will they need to be removed for incubation?

you will need to remove them to incubate artificially.

They don't stay with their eggs?

Many of the taeniura subspecies will stay with their eggs until they hatch or at least for a while. The thing is that you still have to monitor the humidity level and temps, just like you normally would if you took them from the mother right after laying.
As far as I understand they are not able to shiver while coiled around the eggs like some pythons do to keep temps up. If you try leaving the eggs with the mother it would only be for you to see her laying with them. It wouldn't really serve any benificial purpose but if you enjoy it I don't see why it should be any real problem as long as you moniter to temps, humidity and see that she doesen't seem to be hurting the eggs in anyway.

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Randy Whittington

I have BP's that do maternal incubation (they cannot raise their body temps like other pythons so it's more of a brooding) and monitor the temps and humidity. I was hoping to be able to do the same with these.

Please let us know how this goes, I am curious to see how it works out.

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