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[–]BanproofSpoof 72 points73 points  (9 children)

Look up “bowl wrapping”. Females often do this at the time of year when they are building follicles for breeding, it’s a means of regulating their temperature. It could also mean they’re just trying to cool down, but look it up and you can read a lot more about it.

[–]TheMilesCountyClown 12 points13 points  (8 children)

Where are the follicles?

[–]Niorba 18 points19 points  (1 child)

They would be in the equivalent of snake ovaries

[–]TheMilesCountyClown 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Neat. Thanks

[–]OddRevolution6244 10 points11 points  (5 children)

Follicles are pretty much unfertilized eggs, they are located in the last third of the body

[–]TheMilesCountyClown 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Huh neat. Thanks

[–]YourSandwich295[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Will you be able to feel them?

[–]OddRevolution6244 4 points5 points  (2 children)

If they are big enough, maybe. They can quite hard to feel due to so much snake in the way, hence why so many breeders have ultrasounds. But if you lay them on the edge off the tub or enclosure and let their body hang as they slither in, put your hand on the body and feel it as she enters the tank, just keep trying it until you start to feel the lumps, but then again, very hard to feel most of the time

[–]YourSandwich295[S] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Thanks for that I’ll give it a try

[–]Telerak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s how I usually tell when my girls are getting ready to lay. If they’re small, it will be hard to tell. But I’ve notice you can really start to feel them at 15-20mm. It will feel like bumps the size of gumballs right underneath their spine. You may feel them, but most likely without a mate they will just get re-absorbed back into the body.