I have found that these eggs are extremely susceptible to taking on too much water. There seems to be a very fine line with my anthill python eggs between too moist or too dry. So I have been going for dry with 100% humidity.

Basically I looked at what the females were doing. If she is large enough to completely encircle the clutch than she will, and even the bottom eggs will rarely touch substrate. If she is not big enough she would clear away the substrate (barely moist sphagnum) and then rest the eggs on the smooth plastic while she covers the top of the clutch. Any time I have put anthill eggs directly into the substrate (sphagnum, vermiculite, or perlite) I have had them take on too much water. Hence... styrofoam barrier.

This pic is one of the first clutches I ever had. I now give them a much bigger laying tub to give them a big choice of temps. Also holds humidity better and provides more thermal mass against temperature fluctuations. But you get the idea...

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