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DMong
at Mon Oct 12 21:44:52 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
Wow!,..those two that made it are pretty nice!,...one aberrant, and one nice tricolor hypo for sure!
That's exactly why I mark the tops of eggs with a marker or pen, just in case they roll or whatever when I'm taking them out to re-moisten the hatching medium.
The ones that stick together usually aren't a problem to re-orientate back in the substrate. But I had a VERY similar accident with my last clutch of ghost Hondo's. I heard a big crash and ran into the incubating room, and the container of eggs was all over the place just like yours was. Fortunately, I had the loose one marked, and had a photo of the clutch on my computer, so I was able to quickly get them back into their original position.
One thing that had me real worried though, was the fact that they fell from about 5 ft. up on a shelf and where already about 35 days into their incubation. So even though I got them oriented back into their original positions quickly, I was concerned that the shock from the fall could have dislodged them from the inner wall of the egg, or a number of other bad things that could have happened from their sudden fall.
Apperently all was well, because they all hatched without incident. But this just proves that things can happen out of the blue very unexpectedly, so marking the tops is a VERY GOOD safety precaution to always do..LOL!
Nice snakes bro!
~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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RE: Moldy egg hatchlings. - DMong, Mon Oct 12 21:44:52 2009