This year I let a few females stay on their clutches for the first time. I am a colubrid guy so it was hard for me to let go of my incubator! But those clutches are doing great.

I put two clutches in the incubator at 90 degrees with around 90% humidity. Both started off fertile. One clutch hatched 100%. The other got a little dot of blue mold on one egg and proceded to spread and I lost them all. sometimes it just happens. i try and be as clean as possible but you can't be sterile with eggs. Some molds are just more invasive than others. I have seen moldy eggs hatch and I have seen some with just a dot that died.

Next summer I am going to try to ID any molds that grow.

How old is that female? How many eggs did she lay?

[ Show Entire Thread ]