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Nothing. Some eggs are HUGE. 2 are opaque and they look pink inside, which I would say is good, as they should be amels.

Ok, I've bred only a few things as far as herps. Ball pythons, boas, many jackson chams, a few Mad Day geckos etc. But I've had so much stuff in my life. 100's of lizards up to a 7'4" water monitor.

Why am I more excited over amel eggs than most other stuff?

Sounds corny!

Muhahahahhahaha
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1.3 Bearded Dragons Eenie, Meanie, Minie and Moe is the Male

1.1 Western hognose

Corn snakes
Bloodred 0.1
Zipper Amel 0.1 Erica Von Zipper
Amel 1.0 Stud Muffin
Amel 0.1 Lucy Goosey
Creamcicle 0.1 Sherbert

Double Yellow Headed Amazon - Amazona ochrocephala oratrix 0.1? Pretty Girl
Yellow Naped Amazon - Amazona ochrocephala auropalliata 1.1? Carol - Male, Foghorn Leghorn - Female
Blue Front Amazon - Amazona aestiva 1.0? Miss Prissy
Blue and Gold Macaw - Ara ararauna 0.1 April

2.0 Dogs, Michigan, Doc
0.2 Cats,, Sassie and Spooky (all black cat)
0.1 Wives, (Long term captive!,, I mean ME!) I call her (BOSS)
1.1 Kids (Paininthearsius takamemonii) J/K great kids
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tom

www.herpzilla.com

Offically day 59, and nothing.

hmmmmmmm

Dude, corn snake eggs take 60 days to hatch when incubated at a steady temperature of 82-84 degrees...they take longer to hatch if they're incubated at fluctuating temps. You got plenty O' time!

Tim

Third Eye

Yea, just want to see something. They are on teh flexwatt area, on top of a lid. It seems to keep it around 82. But Mil was clean my room a few times and knocked off teh sensor so I had some days it was hot. I was afraid that might had done them in. But it was some time ago. And the a few eggs look like they are going to exploid. I presume the collapse right before hatching like ball python eggs?

Millie is asking me everyday too. Funny how she is kind of getting into a few things.

Later

DUDE! lol

Mine took 73 days, and the last egg 80 days. This has the potential to be a very long thread.

WOW 80! I'll lose my mind!

God I love settingup straight lines.

I know colubrids are not as critical for temps and there is variation, but 80 is long. Thats 33% over due.

Thanks
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This area under construction

1.3 Bearded Dragons Eenie, Meanie, Minie and Moe is the Male

1.1 Western hognose

Corn snakes
Bloodred 0.1
Zipper Amel 0.1 Erica Von Zipper
Amel 1.0 Stud Muffin
Amel 0.1 Lucy Goosey
Creamcicle 0.1 Sherbert

Double Yellow Headed Amazon - Amazona ochrocephala oratrix 0.1? Pretty Girl
Yellow Naped Amazon - Amazona ochrocephala auropalliata 1.1? Carol - Male, Foghorn Leghorn - Female
Blue Front Amazon - Amazona aestiva 1.0? Miss Prissy
Blue and Gold Macaw - Ara ararauna 0.1 April

2.0 Dogs, Michigan, Doc
0.2 Cats,, Sassie and Spooky (all black cat)
0.1 Wives, (Long term captive!,, I mean ME!) I call her (BOSS)
1.1 Kids (Paininthearsius takamemonii) J/K great kids
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tom

www.herpzilla.com

The moral of the story is 60 days is about the EARLIEST you can expect corn snake eggs to hatch. Heat tape does not work in the same way as an incubator does, and it is unlikely that it has provided a consistent incubation temperature. There's a record of a corn snake taking 120 days to hatch...did I mention that you have plenty O' time? And yeah, they typically "dent" a few days before hatching.

Tim

Not straight on FW. A little thermal mass between to buffer highs and lows. I check temps when biostat goes off, that should be the hottest, it is 84. just before stat comes on 81. A little variation with room temp, but AC is alwasy set at 70.

I just 1 hope they are good. 2 I really hope I get one good zigity zag.

Close, but no cigar. You wouldn't get that much temperature variation with a good incubation. In addition, an incubator consistantly heats the substrate, eggs and air in an enclosed, insulated space. If incubating with flexwatt worked the same as using an incubator, your eggs would have hatched by now.

Tim

I know of some corn breeders that just place the eggs in a warm place as colubrid eggs are pretty easy to hatch and can take some variation. And I never said I had the temp at teh exact setting. SO THERE. Just a nice warm spot, I knew would stay warm. I used one of my chinese food containers with peralite after the fly attack. Eggs seem very good. In fact I'm going to go check them.

And the incubators i've seen, heat from the top? Most people I talk to that hatch a lot of eggs, use a big stryo, glass top and a piece of flexwatt buried in substrate, connected to 1 or 2 biostats. In series of course. By the way, hows the milk dud eggs?
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This area under construction

1.3 Bearded Dragons Eenie, Meanie, Minie and Moe is the Male

1.1 Western hognose

Corn snakes
Bloodred 0.1
Zipper Amel 0.1 Erica Von Zipper
Amel 1.0 Stud Muffin
Amel 0.1 Lucy Goosey
Creamcicle 0.1 Sherbert

Double Yellow Headed Amazon - Amazona ochrocephala oratrix 0.1? Pretty Girl
Yellow Naped Amazon - Amazona ochrocephala auropalliata 1.1? Carol - Male, Foghorn Leghorn - Female
Blue Front Amazon - Amazona aestiva 1.0? Miss Prissy
Blue and Gold Macaw - Ara ararauna 0.1 April

2.0 Dogs, Michigan, Doc
0.2 Cats,, Sassie and Spooky (all black cat)
0.1 Wives, (Long term captive!,, I mean ME!) I call her (BOSS)
1.1 Kids (Paininthearsius takamemonii) J/K great kids
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tom

www.herpzilla.com

Well the 80 day old isn't doing so well. He had some problems in there and will be lucky to live. The 6 that hatched in 73-74 days have all shed and eaten their first pink!