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Just curious. It is officially day 60 and no pippies. Just curious as to what day you guys call it official! I would say day 70....? But others are more experienced!
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-David Harrison-
.1 Snow Corn "Hope"
1. Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Chunk" (Goonies)
.1 Orange Albino Black Ratsnake "Peaches"
.1 Ball Python "Rocky Ballboa" (Didn't name her!)

"Have you ever tried simply turning off the T.V., sitting down with your kids... and hitting them?"

If some of your eggs are still looking pretty good, just sit back and figure you will get some pips sometime this week. Could be today...Could be next weekend. Patience, grasshopper.

Last year was my first year breeding, and out of two clutches, one was a complete bust and the other hatched only 5. This year, I only did one clutch & got 15 babies. Hope you get at least a few. Let us know (I'm sure you will!)

BTW...Last year my pips came on day 57, which happened to be the Fourth of July. I kept 3 of those babies; one is named Liberty.
This year, one egg pipped on day 60. But after a couple of days, it looked like my hatch rate was gonna suck. A WEEK later, I had 15 baby corns. So put that little razor knife away!

Two years ago I watched five eggs in roomtemperature of 19-20 degr Celsius. They hatched after 117-119 days. 14 eggs died during incubation or had snakes that did not manage to leave the egg. 80-85 days schould be the expected time at 22-23 degr celcius with better survivalrate.

/Niklas in cold Sweden

being that was my first clutch and all im not expert...

but my babies pipped at day 91.... i got lucky, the temp dropped down to 75 and my thermometer wasnt registering it was saying it was 80......

I incubated 12 clutches of Corns this year, at 80 - 83 degrees, including 3 dbl clutches. The temp was usually 81 - 82. They started pipping at 66 days at the longest, and 58 days at the earliest. The average was 61.6 days.

RC