My corn laid her eggs back at the end of May, I think on the 26th or 27th, I've since had them in a make shift incubator in my closet and have been checking on them seeing as its been around 70 days now... one of the eggs was covered in fungus and started to look funny... being that I thought it was dead and it had been so long, I did something really stupid and now regretting... I opened it up and out poped a embryo, tiny and attached to the placenta (?)... my question is this... if one egg was so little, this snake was so small it's scales were transparent, however I could see the patterning, it was puplish/grey... around 4 inches long and about the width/size of a worm, how far along do you think this snake was, did I make a mistake in opening the egg, it just seems so small for it to have ever developed before too long... 70 days also seems long... the placenta had bright red veins and was intact. I guess that the snake could have passed a few days/weeks ago though, is that possible? I still have 4 other eggs that don't look too bad... any ideas?
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Lost? Or worth waiting around for?
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What do you mean by don't look to bad? If they are still white in color I wouldn't give up on them. In fact I don't give up on a egg until it is shriveled and mold covered. I've seen eggs take longer than 70 days to hatch.
Southampton Herps
This year ALL of my clutches are taking longer. I'm using the same two hovabator incubators. Set to the same temp, 83 degrees. Even having to move them from upstairs to downstairs due to high temps just like I have done every year. The second incubator is a few years new but both are in excellent shape and check with a digital thermometer. I can't find what the difference is but there is something different this year. Corns- 78 days , Cal Kings- 60 days, W. Hognose- 55 days . I usually get my corns to come out in 60-62, Cal kings in 52-55, and my hognose in 45 days. While they are taking longer, every hatchling is larger. This is most noticeable in my cal kings and hognose.
If the eggs are not moldy and shriveling up, leave them alone. Do not confuse the shriveling up with denting in. When they start to dent in, the hatchling is absorbing more of the yolk and near hatching.
Well one did dent in and now it's back to normal again, the eggs are pretty solid and not moldy, but the one I opened was very moldy. I will wait on the others and let you know.
