This question is somewhat common over on the monitor forum. So I have a thought out response to this question, Why would you candle a reptile egg.



There are several reasons I ask this, one if your eggs were bad, your nose and eyes would have already informed you.



Also, candling cannot and will not improve the chances of your eggs hatching. Candling can only cause harm. Or cause nothing at best.



I get the feeling candling is for bird eggs, even better for chicken eggs in an incubator. This that case, you would throw out eggs that did not candle an embryo. I ask, are you going to throw out reptile eggs if you do not see something? I think you will do what we all do, wait until they look like raisens, and have bushes growing out of them. Heck with kingsnakes, even some of those hatch. So, if the eggs look good, then they are good. They are always die, rot, go south, later, or hatch. Good luck with them. FR

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