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My first year breeding

re: Kathy Love's "summer room temperature"

Yes, the “summer room” is included within the chapter “Incubating Eggs.” The image immediately brought to my mind is the way that I have kept, bred, brumated, Eastern Garters, RedBellies, Milks from northern climes here in the Eastern US at a northern latitude. It is very, very convenient to not have to rely upon any artificial heating, cooling, humidifying, lighting. When I read about the “summer room” in FL I envision a year-round room where Corns could be kept like that, with minimal intervention. So, yes you are correct in literal detail. I extrapolate beyond the mere incubating phase; my thinking is that if eggs, the most precarious stage in the life cycle, can be kept in a summer room then every other season/stage can as well.
 
No disagreement there. The snakes should be able to survive in a "summer room" whatever that means for their range. One must understand that the term doesn't mean simply unheated and uncooled; don't stick your snakes in a storage shed in the sun. I realize that all the thread's contributors know this. I spent years teaching lab based classes and am hyper-aware of goofy, dangerous mistakes! [emoji57]

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Tomorrow, during my weekly check(the last weekly check before switching to daily), I've decided to switch the lid for a lid with a few holes. I've just been nervous about them running out of air, since they're so many eggs in there.
 
I always do that toward about the sixth week. My head tells me that there's plenty of oxygen in the nest box by my heart feels better with more ventilation. [emoji16]

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I know! And to think some Ball Python breeders use press and seal and never open the container during the entire incubation.

I switched the tops, just gotta keep an eye on humidity, don't want to mistake low humidity making the eggs dent for that "close to hatching" egg denting. This morning the eggs were plump as ever, and ALOT of movement in the eggs. (Which calms my "I've already suffocated the eggs" nerves lol)

I was thinking, I saw in a YouTube video that the lack of oxygen is what encourages the snakes to want to break out of their shell so I wonder if a lower oxygen environment would make then hatch faster. Not something I would want to test, but just a passing thought.

For Mama, she just shed, and remarkably took a meal with no hesitation. Which can mean two things, either she's not gravid (please) or she took the meal because she realized she needs the calories/energy. Either way I'm glad.
 
Btw, @DinosaurMorph, I have been trying to reply to your PM. I'm not sure what's happening but I'm not sure that my messages have gone through. (I know this isn't the proper place but I'm not sure what else to try.)

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Day 59, no denting yet, but the eggs are much softer to the touch. Starting to lose that turgidness.

Bad time to express the fact my rack still hasn't shipped. :blowhead:

Good news it that when it does ship, it's within the same state, so it shouldn't make more than a day or two to get here. And it will arrive already built.
 
Textural changes, eh? Won't be much longer. Do you have an estimated ship date on the rack?

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Caryl said:
Textural changes, eh? Won't be much longer. Do you have an estimated ship date on the rack?

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It was estimated 6 weeks, and that was Friday. If I dont hear anything by Thursday, I will send an email, there was a message on the website that inquiries on ship dates will not be returned...if that is the case, I'll just put in a dispute with Paypal, they HAVE to respond to them :grin01:
 
Golly, I hope it shows up before your hatchlings do. I suppose if the eggs start pipping, you can always get some deli cups and poke holes in the lids.

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I was planning on keeping them in the incubator until after the first shed anyway. But yeah if all else fails Ill use deli cups as a back up.

Forgot to mention, last night I had a dream, the eggs hatched and they all came out fully grown, and some where straight anery(impossible with the pairing) and some where also shatter (also impossible with the pairing)....and they all escaped lmao
 
Wow, that's quite an unusual stress dream you had! Your subconscious is definitely working overtime. [emoji1787][emoji23][emoji1787]

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Sorry to triple post, but got alot of updates lol.

1. The rack is out for delivery today, phew

2. The eggs are started to dent in now

And 3. lastly, but not leastly, Bean WAS gravid again. Laid 13 eggs. Good news she got them all out okay, but not so good news, 10 of them were infertile. Because of that, I did have to separate them, I went as gentle and slow as I could so hopefully I didnt damage the "good" ones. I did candle them and I did see some the start of some veins. Tbh I'm kinda glad most of them slugged out, I couldn't handle 41 babies my first season x.x

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