My family has had cornsnakes for as far back as I can recall. One day they got the idea to get our common corn snake a friend. That friend turned into a girl snake and one day when they went to take out the blanket they give to the snakes to hid in. They found eggs. Out of 12 eggs 4 hatched. They bought a havabater(small Styrofoam incubator) and vermiculite.



Since then they kept one baby and over the years that baby boy grew up. Since then they got him a girl snake and again it bread. This time I took care of them and out of 8 eggs only 2 hatched and the rest got over run with a fungus or something. And one of the baby's died because it did not want to eat and was not taking force feeding.



Now the reason there current snakes only had 8 eggs is because from what I was told be a pet store owner. It was because she was to young/skinny or it was something about a first clutch Styrofoam.



When we thought she may be breeding again I made her a container with Spagem moss in a Rubbermaid container. And as of right now I have not checked on her for about 3 days and today I found 19 eggs. They are all firm and round. I was told be a local reptile store that they use Purl-lite instead of vermiculite. I put it into a rubber made container and poured water in it and mixed it up real good and crushed up the Purl-lite. I made sure it was all moist and there was no water puddles on the bottom. I took out all 19 eggs and made a small indention with my finger and placed each egg onto the pirllite. I put the container into the havabater and as of right now I am checking it every hour to make sure I keep the temperature at around 80 degrees.



Can you help me make sure I do not over water it and don't kill 19 eggs???? I love the snakes so much I hate the idea that it is me doing the killing. I read somewhere that you can put a moist paper towel over the eggs to help with the humidity, but I also read not to get the eggs wet. A friend told me that I could put a bowl of water next to the container in the incubator to help with the humidity.



HELP GUIDE ME PLEASE! ? :]

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• Help incabating cornsnakes - boa4ever, Sat May 14 23:29:42 2005
• RE: Help incabating cornsnakes - jyohe, Sun May 15 10:41:20 2005
• RE: Help incabating cornsnakes - boa4ever, Mon May 16 14:50:53 2005