Hi Guys, please consider this. If your not getting consistent results, its because the box is not right. That's simple enough.
Cal kings are not the easiest to nest properly. They do seem to like laying eggs between things.
I use a separate nesting box that was developed for Cal kings, because its deeper then you can fit in a cage and I place two pieces of glass down in the substrate. One about four to six inches down. The other about an inch below that one, The females can then lay between the layers of glass or below the deeper one.
Whats funny is, what I developed(many years ago) is the combination of what you two are doing. Which is the important part.
We do not "know" what they are actually looking for. But we do know some things like humidity, temps, depth, and conditions often used. Like under the tile. What we do not understand is, what makes them use one or the other, same female, different years. So as a huge genius, I simply added both. and often more, then let them tell me.
Kings also love to nest is wadded up plastic trash bags buried in nesting material. The problem is getting to the eggs. The snakes have no problem crawling into folds after folds, but we do. Beautiful kings you got there.

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