Why did you open the eggs and not let them continue to incubate?,.....Those were probably perfectly good eggs with perfectly good embryos in them. It sounds like the nasty little bugs/mites, or whatever they are simply attached their egg sac to the snake egg out of convenience of the location, and didn't affect the snake eggs at all.....other than having a gross looking nodule attached. After these pests hatched, didn't the snake eggs they were on still look decent?



I would take the egg container outside ASAP!, and carefully collect all the eggs after marking the tops of any loose eggs with pen(so they DON'T get accidentally rotated), brush all those nasty bugs/mites of with a fine small brush, then place them into another freshly made container of vermiculite/Perlite, and be done with it. Of course I would also keep a very close eye on everything afterwards too, as I would want to know EXACTLY what those little ba$tard$ were in the first place.



Hopefully they were some sort of "garden variety" bug/mite, and not snake mites. There are many different kinds.





best regards, ~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

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• Eggs & mites?? - squidgyfish, Wed Jul 16 16:00:28 2008
• RE: Eggs & mites?? - FunkyRes, Wed Jul 16 18:17:55 2008
• RE: Eggs & mites?? - tspuckler, Wed Jul 16 19:09:50 2008
• RE: Eggs & mites?? - squidgyfish, Thu Jul 17 03:49:46 2008
• RE: Eggs & mites?? - squidgyfish, Fri Jul 18 09:35:54 2008
• RE: Eggs & mites?? - DMong, Fri Jul 18 10:18:10 2008
• After re-reading the post.... - DMong, Fri Jul 18 10:23:41 2008
• RE: Eggs & mites?? - squidgyfish, Fri Jul 18 12:30:01 2008
• Okay!.....n/p - DMong, Sat Jul 19 01:28:04 2008
• Mites.......and the world - jyohe, Sat Jul 19 21:20:08 2008
• not snake mites!! - adamjeffery, Fri Jul 18 15:16:33 2008