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Hello,
I have a couple of eggs in this clutch that appear to be incompletely calcified on one end, and are getting moldy in those spots. The mold is easily removed with a cotton swab, and never spreads to the calcified parts of the egg or the rest of the clutch, but I'm a bit worried about these two eggs. Has anyone had success hatching eggs that look like this?

Thanks,
Nate

They can hatch. I just had a cape gopher egg hatch yesterday that was like that and have had some other eggs in the past like that that hatched. I would just keep doing what you are and hope for the best.
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Randy Whittington

I had that eggs hatched before. This year too and no problem.

seriously

Like the others have said.. They are ugly eggs, but they have a chance.. If they do hatch you should take pics of them poking thier heads out and post them up.. It would be good to show others that ugly eggs can produce viable offspring.

Keep us posted!

~ Mike Russo

I have a solo egg dropped that greatly resembles yours... it is seeming to develope just fine and I really have my fingers crossed for it. Also I'm actually just now having a clutch begin to hatch ... all the eggs looked bad from the start. 2 of 7 are out so we'll see what tomorrow brings!

Good luck with them....

Chris

No Dave -- you're actually quite on to something. I was merely suggesting as a gross average the females will be less 'impressive' than the males. Though I personally can think of a few snakes that easily break that rule... matter of fact I stupidly sold off a female a couple years ago as I couldn't find her a locale mate. I'll hunt down the pics but as I understand it she's gotten lighter with age and wound up with a red, not quite 'hyposih,' but light look. I'm still crossing my fingers hoping to produce anything near as nice as her... there's always next year!

Chris

np...