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I dont know what happened but I checked on my eggs last night and some were starting to mold. Everything was perfect. 80% Humidity and the temp is 80F. I got all the moldy eggs out but one. it is atached to 2 other eggs and I am worried I will loose the whole clutch because of this. How do I seporate this eggs to get rid of it or is there a way to clean the mold off of the egg. I can candel the egg and it looks good it just has a little patch of green fuz growing on it. Thanks in advance
Foot Hill Reptiles

I've asked this question before. The responses I received when that the moldy eggs should not impact the healthy ones so removing is not necessary. I use listerine soaked q-tips to clean the mold off my eggs after reading about this in either Don Soderbergs new book or in Kathy Loves book. Can't remember which.

I do the same.
Jason, I hope you didf not throw out the moldy eggs unless there was other signs that they were bad. I have had snakes hatch out of some gross lookin eggs.
If you can, seperate the moldy ones in a differeent container until you are sure they are bad. For those that you can not get apart, use listerine. I have also heard anti fungal foot cream, but have never tried that.
Hope this helps.
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I did take out 2 of them but they were definitly bad. I cam ehome from work tonight to find buggs "nats" in the container with the moldy eggs. I am starting to think I will loose them all in that contaner
Foot Hill Reptiles

Don't give up.

Good egg attached to two dead eggs - the dead eggs had maggots in them, the works - but the good egg continued to develop just fine while the bag eggs eventually hardened and shriveled up.

Someone (I think Nokturnal Tom) in the kingsnake forum posted a picture of a very nasty looking egg - pipping.

Anyway - my first snake clutch in years was laid last year.
12 good eggs.

a few weeks through, several were dead and more dying.
The problem was too much moisture in hatching medium. Humidity was right, but humidity guages don't measure the wetness of the hatching medium. I redid the setup and the eggs stopped dying.

So check what the eggs are sitting it - it may be too wet even if your air humidity is fine.

This year I'm using vermiculite - mixed with water 1:1 by weight. One clutch was a little dry and a couple eggs started to dent, adding damp moss caused them to pop back out. Other clutch hasn't needed that adjustment.
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3.6 L. getula californiae - 16 eggs (Cal. King)
1.1 L. getula nigrita (MBK)
1.0 Pantherophis guttatus guttatus (Corn)
0.1 Pituophis catenifer catenifer (Pacific gopher)
3.3 Elgaria multicarinata multicarinata - 14 eggs (Cal. Alligator Lizard)

I use perlite and I do not add any water to it. The perligte is dry but I may change it anyway because at this point I am out of options. I understand now how to get rid of the mold from everyones replys "Thanks a million" However I do not yet know what caused it in the first place
Foot Hill Reptiles

Jason
I use anti fungal foot power and apply it with a soft brush females use for make up. Just dip the end of the brush in a small pile of power, tap it once, and apply.

I have used this method on Indigo eggs with positive results.

Dan