Good luck with the eggs. There is too little information about your friends eastern hatchlings all dying randomly for anyone to come up with a reasonable conclusion, so I wouldn't worry about that happening to you.



I personally would separate the hatchlings as soon as they are out of the eggs.



As far as the egg painting goes, I think it is a "croc" of BS and would have to see a REAL study with REAL results before believing otherwise, not just a bunch of speculation from a couple of internet geniuses, lol. I don't think it's needed (even if it was proven to influence hatchling snakes) as the previous statement that hatchling milks prefer lizards should not be a blanket statement for all milks. There is very, very little chance of MOST eastern milks EVER encountering a lizard in the wild. (Sure there are some aras where skinks and eastern milks overlap, but much more area, I believe, where easterns are found that no lizards occur.) And as you've stated, you live in an area with NO lizards.



Once again good luck and post pictures when they hatch!



For size reference, this is a day old pinkie. It's pretty amazing what these guys can actually eat at such a small size.








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Joe

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