I have a clutch of 7 tri-colored hognose snakes that are hatching out right now. 4 of the 7 hatched out with extreme kinks in the spine and tail. The other 3 went full term but died in the egg, they were also kinked up. Anyone have any experience with this? The parents are perfect so I can't imagine it's genetic. I have always had success incubating eggs on perlite in my reptile room before. The temp fluctuates a little bit around 80-84 but rarely drops below or goes above those. Could over saturation of the perlite play a part? I have more eggs incubating so hopefully the first clutch was just a fluke, what do you guys think?
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kinked babies
TraceH
Mar 25, 2007 07:05 AM
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tom
Mar 25, 2007 08:00 PM
proper temps on tri's are 78deg. for 78 days according to Mark and Kim Bell and steven emeric. you are too hot!
FloridaHogs
Mar 25, 2007 08:14 PM
I incubated my first clutch at 82 and had all but one go full term and die in the egg. The one that hatched was healthy. All the babies that died in the egg were deformed. When I lowered my temps to below 80 I had no more problems.
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evilelvis
Mar 28, 2007 05:17 AM
I incubate mine down to 76f but last year in the UK we had such a warm summer mu incubater was rarely under 85f, i didnt have one single deformed animal but they were all males!!
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