Jungle Laid

[TeaNinja]

i believe someone else on here tried maternal incubation recently and it turned out horribly. i hope yours goes well.

[Jay]

Originally Posted by TeaNinja

i believe someone else on here tried maternal incubation recently and it turned out horribly. i hope yours goes well.

Horrible, the worst that could happen is they don't hatch. That led me to another thought. Could I feed them so my Monitor?? (Nott the live ones)

[TeaNinja]

what i meant by horrible was i believe some rotted and they got some kind of insects flying all around the eggs and i belive they had 0 that lived if i remember correctly.

but yea....if they don't.....monitor food! lol
i can't decide if that's sick or funny....maybe both O.O

[stephanbakir]

They would make good monitor food. I'm not sure about feeding rotten eggs to him though, but with fresh slugs go for it!!
I have maternally incubated twice with retics and once with olive pythons and had a 70% hatch rate with all 3, and I know a few people on other forums that do it aswel.

[stephanbakir]

Originally Posted by shaunyboy

if the sluggs not attatched to the clump of eggs and you can get it out with little stress to mum,then i would take it out

if its stuck then i'd leave it and try and keep an eye on it

you can use things like atheletes foot powder to slow the rate of mould growth or sometimes dry it out completely.

thats in an incubator i think the powder would be HAMFULL TO MUM though

i've e mailed a couple of my carpet mentors to see if they can give some advice

cheers shaun

If you can get in without bugging the mom, and the egg is starting to go bad, there is always the option of using a syringe to drain the egg so you don't risk tearing an egg. If an egg does tear use a bandaid. It works!
A little mold wont kill the eggs around it, but lots might.

[Jay]

Well the bad egg took a 4 foot drop onto the bottom of the viv, She must have either went down there and laid another or ....I'm baffled considering she is in an egg box ? She would have had to carry it out there is NO way the egg could have fallen out. I'll upload some pics tomorrow.

[stephanbakir]

Moms are good at getting rid of bad eggs, its not uncommon for them to remove bad eggs from the egg box.

[Will0W783]

Congratulations on the clutch! I hope they all hatch out for you.

[shaunyboy]

i know a guy in the states who is maternally incubating diamond python eggs

the mother leaves the eggs for 30 minutes each day to bask then straight back to the eggs


this is very interesting stuff jay please keep us updated as to you and mums progress

cheers shaun

[stephanbakir]

Can't wait for the pics!