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Hello All...My SHCT baldie just layed her first set of eggs, she was 65 grams, and is now enjoying a nice large meal and some calcium of course.

The eggs were set in Perlite, moistened 1 to .8 parts perlite to water and set in a Hovabator thats been sitting at 82 degrees for the past 3 months.

Is there anything else i need to do besides sit around, look, check up and wait. Ive read most everything i can get my hands on and want to get personal feedback.

I would appreciate any help.

Hunter

It is nice to see a first timer who has done their homework. I would just recommend getting everything ready for your new babies well ahead of time, and reread as much as you can so that you are ready for common problems.

Breeding is the kind of thing that takes experience to really know what you are doing. There are just some things that you cannot fully learn nor appreciate by reading alone.

I hope this experience is good for you. Alot of people rush in and get overwhelmed because they are not ready, but it sounds like you are doing fine.

As a side note my first experience with eggs was from a wild caught Black Rat Snake that I didn't even know was gravid when I was 12. She laid the eggs through her enclosure, even in her water bowl. I did not have an incubator or anything, not even vermiculite. I had to wait till my mom got home to run me to the store to get some vermiculite, and then make an enclosure out of an old aquarium. Alot of things went wrong during the incubation time (mostly my fault), but in the end 14 of the 15 eggs hatched and the experience was worth more than any book I read. 17 years later and I still make stupid mistakes but with each one I learn a little more.

And another thing to remember is a lot of eggs from first time females aren't fertile, or at least in my experience it's been this way. Don't let it discourage you though, she'll probably lay a good set not too long(depending on your definition of not too long) after. Hope everything goes well, good luck!

Thanks for all the encouragement and info. I hope they do well, but if not, there is always the next ones... I have 2 other females with another male (the male is a 100% het Tremper Super Tang Banded Albino) So is one of the Females, the other is a normal SHCT. I saw the father of the two hets, oh my, and the reciept where my friend bought them from Ron Tremper himself. The male is proven, so he knows what he is doing...but they are good and ready, about to start heating up again....just weighed in at 79, 66, 68 respectively.

I got to put their heating pad back down, then they will be good to go!

I appreciate your help everyone.
God Bless
Hunter