Python gives up on maternal incubation

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dcarew

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I have a jungle python who I left to maternally incubate this year as she was coiled up, shaking doing all the right things etc. her health was good and had great weight to her, but for some reason she gave up after a week or two and went back to doing normal python things.
I cant find any information about why this could be the case?
 
First clutch? Some snakes won't know how to behave for the first clutch. Some specimens also just aren't suited to it in a captive enviroment.
 
Generally it's because either there is something wrong with the environment, or the eggs themselves. Some individual snakes are just idiots, but if she tried for two weeks she probably knew what she was doing, the eggs were probably fine and the issue was most likely something wrong with the environment, whether it was the temperature, humidity, she was being disturbed too much and considered the location unsafe, or there was some other issue.

Knowing zero about the environment, it's impossible for me to diagnose what was wrong with the environment.
 

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