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How do I know when my carpet python is done laying her eggs?

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Acheron_08

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Demona

ok i have a real silly question so don't call me dumb lol any ways i know i can be disty and anyways just a real quick question . my female carpet demona is due to drop in the next couple of days so i know what to do about taking the eggs and all the jazz but ..... um how will i know when she is done?

i know silly question but don't want to bother her if she still laying ya know.

thanks guys :)


Points:	50
Topics:	General Health , Egg Laying
Tags:	Eggs, Laying, Morelia, Spilota
Species:	Pythons > Morelia > Morelia spilota spilota
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Accepted Answer

5/30/2010 1:08:01 AM

dalvers63

A couple of ways. THe first thing you will notice is that she has formed a pyramid around her eggs. Female pythons will gather the eggs and wrap them in their coils with their head on top when they're done laying. If you're doing artificial incubation, once you take her off the eggs you'll also notice that she's much smaller all the way down. If she's retained any eggs it is usually pretty obvious. I always wait for my girls to wrap and then I'm pretty sure they're done.

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5/30/2010 1:36:04 AM

Lashman

I agree! I see Deb already said it.

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5/30/2010 11:34:10 AM

xanaxez

Deb hit it. i did the same, i waited until my girl coiled the eggs so i would know she was done since it was my breeding attempt.

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5/30/2010 3:36:58 PM

Acheron_08

thanks deb i appercate it the advice> she should be droping any day now! so excited :) my frist clutch of carpets:) i have succsessfully hatched out corn eggs .. i like to call that my partice run lol

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5/30/2010 9:58:46 PM

Aimee

yeah, take it from me - look closely at her body when you remove her from the eggs, so you don't miss any that may be retained! if this occurs you will certainly be able to tell (I dealt with it this year) good luck with that clutch, and what a gorgeous female.

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5/30/2010 10:43:49 PM

Acheron_08

thanks aimee:) i am hoping that when i get home form work she will lay tonight:)

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5/31/2010 1:46:45 AM

Blueisola

I am sure you wil be just fine, Dawn :) And if you're lucky she'll start laying at night so that she has all night to do what she needs to do and you can sleep through it...hopefully she is good and done by the time you awake. Good luck!

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6/2/2010 11:09:48 PM

aaron

For the record, with chondro girlies, I let them coil, and let them stabilize the eggs. I don't take them right away, leaving them with her for a number of hours or a day isn't likely to have negative consequence. Any eggs she abandons can be fired into the incubator (cover her with a towel if she's grabby) and then get them once they set. From here on in, I am unlikely to separate the eggs, I believe I'm going the more thermal mass provides more stabilization route. Some chondro breeders who have a large amount of success don't separate. I've had too much instability in ripping them apart... but that's also likely a me problem.

The way I figure it, if mom can do it in a clump, so can I!

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6/3/2010 9:49:28 PM

Acheron_08

thanks Aaron for the advice :) i am defaintly leaving the eggs clumped together if they are indeed that way. i am nervous about moving the eggs from mom to the sho box cuz i don't want to roll them around or any thing like that. i am hoping she isn't grabby but my luck she will be. i know speedy told me back in 08 before i got her she was breed and he had no problem getting the eggs from her and her frist clutch was 17 eggs only three hatched though. but i didn't breed her some one else did. i gave her 09 off do to the fact that my male wasnt ready yet. the person that did breed her said when she laid she didn't do it in the nest box. she laid out side of the nest box. i can't remember though what day he said she laid after pre lay shed.

today makes day 21 :) so hopfully any time now :)

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1/25/2011 10:19:13 AM

abi21491

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