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this egg is definatly fertile.it has nice big veins forming a beautiful network inside the egg.the egg isnt touching the the one but is right next to it. it is starting to form a greyish green fuzzy mold on one end. it isnt alot. i know that mold will not really affect a healthy egg, but is there something you can do to stop the growth of the mold.i would feel better if the mold wasnt there. i know that given the proper incubating peramaters for the eggs mold will have no problem living. any input will be appreciated.

spider

Sorry to hear about that.

My experience is with North American colubrid snake eggs and with Burmese python eggs, not with ball python eggs.

In my opinion, given the proper incubating conditions for the eggs, mold will not take hold. If mold does get started, conditions are probably too damp. That was the cause of mold problems in my early incubating days.

I've heard claims that dusting the moldy area with an antifungal foot powder may help. I've never tried it myself.

Details of your incubation technique might help others suggest ways to help.

Good luck.

Paul Hollander

just give it a light dusting with lotramin, athletes foot powder at your drugstore. one note of interest, every so often an egg gets left out of the mother's coil. these eggs have always gone bad, i have read the mother 'knows' they are duds, and kicked them out. they always went bad after a few days. when they start to look a little funny, the lotramin will stop the decay, i have hatched most of my discards this year. i didn't keep real precise records on this, but give it a try, you have nothing to lose. kurt d.

>>just give it a light dusting with lotramin, athletes foot powder at your drugstore. one note of interest, every so often an egg gets left out of the mother's coil. these eggs have always gone bad, i have read the mother 'knows' they are duds, and kicked them out. they always went bad after a few days. when they start to look a little funny, the lotramin will stop the decay, i have hatched most of my discards this year. i didn't keep real precise records on this, but give it a try, you have nothing to lose. kurt d.

I have to respectfully disagree with all "rollouts" being "bad eggs"...I've hatched out quite a few so far that the dam has left out of her coils(all of them actually,well...so far anyway).
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Charles Glaspie

>>this egg is definatly fertile.it has nice big veins forming a beautiful network inside the egg.the egg isnt touching the the one but is right next to it. it is starting to form a greyish green fuzzy mold on one end. it isnt alot. i know that mold will not really affect a healthy egg, but is there something you can do to stop the growth of the mold.i would feel better if the mold wasnt there. i know that given the proper incubating peramaters for the eggs mold will have no problem living. any input will be appreciated.
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>> spider

My solution last season was to spray it down with peroxide and then spray it down with clean water after that(once a week until it hatched)...This year i thwarted the possibility altogether by adding methylene to the water.
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Charles Glaspie