i know this is the wrong forum, but corn snakes and Black rat snakes are pretty similar and I thought I'd get a response quickly here.
42 days ago a friend called me to let me know that she found a wild Black rat snake laying her eggs. I picked up the eggs and have been incubating them. out of five fertile eggs, two got really moldy and died after a couple weeks. The eggs all had a strange "dry" appierence, but were firm, the outer layer of the shell was cracked like how dry mud can get. The shells also seem to be unusally thick, because when compared to corn snake eggs, I can't see them nearly as clearly when they are candled.Now one egg has broken along the a crack mark, but it seems way too early to be hatching time(usually been upper 70s F or low 80s F). It dosn't look like the kind of crack made by a hatching neonate, and he hasn't poked out his head, but I can see his eye and scales/pattern. There's a little clear egg goo coming out of the crack. The crack is about half the length of the egg, right across the middle of the top. What should I do? I need advice soon!
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2.2 Ball Pythons (and 5 eggs!) 1.1 Amazon Tree Boas 1.0 Corn Snake (and 9 eggs) 1.0 Dumeril's Boa 2.1.10 Bearded Dragons 2.1.2 Crested Geckos (and 4 eggs!) 1.1.4 Eastern Box Turtles (eggs?)1.0 Northern Mockingbird 0.3 Chickens 2.0 Cats 1.1 Ferrets plus lots of mice and feeder insects and 3 Black Rat snake eggs

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