How dare you lol. I love your original setup!

To the original poster: Joe makes sense here. If you just have a few eggs, you can sometimes find a place where temps are reasonable, like on top of a refridgerator for example.

You can incubate colubrid eggs in the high 70s just fine. They can experience a nightime drop just fine. If you stay within 70-82 deg from morning to night they are fine (probably a much wider range, but for a house, the 70-82 range is often achievable easily.)

Most important is that they are not too wet and not too dry. One method is an aquarium filled about 4 inches with water, a small aquarium heater submersed and set to keep the water 80 deg. Float the egg box on that, or place a brick in there to rest the box on. Cover the aquarium top. That keeps temps in the range and keeps humidity nice. For an egg box, one method is perlite on the bottom wet, then a layer of polyester batting on top of that, then eggs on the polyester. Eggs are dry but air in the box is humid. Or if the perlite layer is thick enough above the water line, eggs on the perlite and no batting. It all works.

Someone once posted pics of snakes eggs found in the field. Really cool find. He put a thermometer on them (nice idea!) and measured temps midday and in the morning. Saw temps like 90 during one day (it was a warm day), and I forgot the low but I think 70s. In any case, he checked back now and again until one day he found the empty shells of a hatched clutch, not really knowing what species exactly. Just to show you what is possible. High temps are likely survivable if they are for a limited time. What was fairly stable was humidity - the eggs were in a rotting log against the soil below, and the area was not wet but not dry and not exposed to airflow of any significant degree.
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Mark

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