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Hi everyone. My eggs have been incubating for 43 days now. I am keeping a close eye on them and have a few questions. First of all I have noticed that in the past almost week they have swelled. Then noticed today the swelling is going down and some even look almost dented. If I candel them I cant hardly see a thing anymore, as if the eggs are full of??????????? babys I hope. Anyway a couple of sites I read said the incubation should take 40-45 days wich has me very excited being this is the 43rd day however I have read it can tak up to 90 days. How are we to tell for sure with so much mixed information on the net. If I am correct in remembering what you have said before the swelling the the little deflation is a tell tail sign that they will hatch any day correct? Also here is a huge problem. MY little girl gose in for an opporation on the 23rd "6 days" will the snakes be fine if they hatch when I am not here and spend several days in the incubator? I have tryed with no luck to find somone to keep an eye on them for me. The incubator is a 3G bucket with water and a submersable heater. The egg containers are barly large enough to hold the eggs and a temp and humidity gauge each. I worry because what will hapen if they hatch and 8 snakes are in these each container for 3-4 days before I get home. I wil be gone all week of the 23rd and will be to far away to just be able to fly home and check on them. Thanks a million in advance for the help.
Foot Hill Reptiles

My corn eggs usually hatch at day 60 or later.

Generally speaking, corn snake eggs take 60 days or more to hatch. Occasionally eggs might hatch in incubation days numbering the high 50's, but 60 days or more is far more likely.

When eggs hatch in 60 days, it is when they are incubated at a steady temperature of 82-84 degrees. If eggs are incubated at higher temperatures than that, they may hatch somewhat sooner, but run the risk of having deformed hatchlings (these deformities are most often expressed in spinal kinks).

Your eggs will not hatch in 45 days or even 50 for that matter, so you don't have anything to worry about in that regard. If you do plan on being out of town when eggs are due to hatch, you can always remove them from the incubator and place them in a larger container, where the babies can get out and crawl around.

Tim

Third Eye

Ok thanks a bunch They are not do from the info you gave me untill about the 7th of next month and I should be home by the 29th so hopfully I am safe. Thanks agan

Jason, my corns hatched at 55, 56 and 54 days. I had them incubated at 84-85 though. If I remember right, you said yours were at 85 as well. I think you are probably going to have a hatch less than 60, if that is the case. Although, my first clutch was at the same temps and did not hatch until like 61, I think. I would bet at 55-60 days as the expectation. But, that is just me
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"Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints"

Not counting Hatchlings, this is what I have.........

1.1.2 bearded dragons
8.16.0 corn snakes
1.1.0 jungle corns
1.2.0 California King
1.0.0 Mexican Black king
0.1.0 Blotched king
0.1.0 Lavender Brooksi king
1.0.0 Sinaloan milk snake
0.1.0 Tri-Hybrid milk snake
1.1.0 Arizona mountain king
0.1.0 Congo African Grey Parrot
0.1.0 German Shepherd (hybrid) dog

if the eggs are denting in then the humidity might be to low, which with your set up im not sure how but dents are what happens when the humidity is to low. you might want to take a paper towel and wet it then wring it out as much as possible and then lay it on the eggs.
adam
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hybrid breeders association
0.0.32 baby corns
2 leo eggs-due sept
0.1. normal corn het hypo,anery
1.0. snow corn het hypo,anery,amel
1.0. amel corn unknown hets(4ft 8inch long)
1.0 sinacorn
1.1 kenyan sand boas
0.1 mbk
0.1 albino nelsons
0.2 normal leo geckos
1.0 blizzard leo gecko
0.0.1 3 lined mud turtle

The humidity has heald at a perfect 80% during the whole 44 days of incubation thus far. I build my incubator as folows. 3G bucket. I put 2 1/2 bricks in the bucket and a submersable heater in between the bricks, I then put one egg container on each brick and added water to the bucket untill it reached about 1/4" above the bricks so the water is actualy touching the egg containers. I got everythign fine tuned for more than a month then unpluged and put the incubator away. When the eggs were layed I took it out and simply plugged it in and all the seting went right back to where they were supose to. My temps have stayed at a farly steady 82-85F for the past 44 days and the humidity has been a poerfect 80%. My gauges are inside the containers with the eggs so this is the same humidity and temps the eggs are geting. I realy hope they hatch soon but if they do not hatch by the time I leave town at 4am on the 23rd then I realy hope they wait untill I get back wich could be up to 7 days later. What about not being able to realy candel the eggs anymore? Is that a good sign? When I put my light on one side and look through the other the eggs apear solid. I have been watching this dark spot grow inside the eggs for about maybe a little over a month now and now the dark spot in each egg has just about filled up the whole egg. Thanks agan for the replys
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