Anticipation is killing me!

[cenecker]

So for the third time my red girl Kali has forced her way out of her cage (each time I've found her wedged into the tiniest space she can find in my snake room). I've moved her to a cozy humid little rubbermaid bin. She's very swollen and surprising "fussy" (she rarely even hisses, suddenly she's hissing and gaping!). I can only imagine she's going to start laying any minute.

How do YOU handle the waiting? :-)

[CDN_Blood]

Here's hoping that the new bin keeps her safely contained. An escaped snake is bad news for every keeper out there, so safe containment is an absolute must.

[cenecker]

Here's hoping that the new bin keeps her safely contained. An escaped snake is bad news for every keeper out there, so safe containment is an absolute must.

Yes...but a secure, uncluttered, climate controlled snake room makes escapees MUCH less problematic. :)

I really do need to improve the locks on my cages...

[CDN_Blood]

Yes...but a secure, uncluttered, climate controlled snake room makes escapees MUCH less problematic. :)
That's exactly what I was hoping you'd say :D

I'm curious as to how athletic your girl is at that size. While all my Bloods will climb given the opportunity, the breit is by far the most courageous and athletic and will routinely scale 6-foot shelves without hesitation and use brute force and sheer determination to get to the shelf in the (doorless) closet of the snake room, whereas my brongs are more comfortable not getting more than about 3-4 feet off the ground.

[cenecker]

None of my bloods are climbers. I have some large branches in a few of their cages (for scenery more than anything) but they aren't ever used. When they go for "walks" in the back yard they all head for the lowest points. Never seen any of them try to climb. EXCEPT kali when she decided she was leaving her cage....three times...

[CDN_Blood]

That's really interesting. Why do I always get the crazy ones? LOL

[cenecker]

HOOOORRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY...

The anticipation is no longer killing me...

[Caylan]

Congrats!! And todd, Lucy's a climber too. Rather be on my shoulders then in my arms, unlike Ashe and Nephry(not the Nephry would fit:D)
SO who sired the eggs??? ;)

[geckodog]

Wow congratilations, give pics of the new babies.

[MoreliAddict]

Nice! Congrats!

Has she calmed back down?

[geckodog]

Is she still trying to get out of the cage, let me know. btw how do i make my own thread get back to me, I would really like to know. thanks

[cenecker]

I made the tough choice of also pulling Betha's eggs as well. My first foray into maternal brooding did not go well :-(. It's entirely my fault. I was obssessing over the humidity and keeping it way too humid in her cage. I underestimated a coiled pythons ability to keep the humidity in the egg cluster high.

Many of the eggs Bertha was coiled on were greenish blue and rotten. The cause was easy to identify, they were SOAKED. Trial and error I suppose but I feel bad saying that about living creatures...

BUT the good news. I still have 20 black blood python eggs and now 14 red blood python eggs looking white, non-dimply and healthy in my home-made incubator. The incubator is a 20 gal aquarium half full of vermaculite (topped with a light diffusor, after DROWNING half of Bertha's eggs I just don't want them in direct contact with anything wet!). I am covering the top with plastic and added some heat rope underneath just in case it gets chilly at night. My snake room has a space heater but it still gets down to 78-80 at night, a little cooler than BP eggs prefer or so I read.