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Here's my first hatch of 2009. The clutch went 95 days and started pipping yesterday morning. The first snake is out, but the other three good eggs haven't pipped yet. Think I should be worried?

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1.2.0 Hondurans Het Amel
1.1.0 Hondurans Anery, Het Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo, Het Anery
0.2.0 Pueblans
1.0.0 Pueblan Hypo
0.1.0 Corn Bloodred
0.0.1 GBK Blair's Phase
1.0.0 California King
0.1.0 California King Blue-eyed Blond
0.0.1 Speckled King WC
0.0.1 Jungle Carpet
0.1.0 Ball, Normal
0.0.1 Sulcata
0.1.0 Wife, Caucasius Mexicana

The second one has pipped.
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http://www.mikefoux.com

1.2.0 Hondurans Het Amel
1.1.0 Hondurans Anery, Het Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo, Het Anery
0.2.0 Pueblans
1.0.0 Pueblan Hypo
0.1.0 Corn Bloodred
0.0.1 GBK Blair's Phase
1.0.0 California King
0.1.0 California King Blue-eyed Blond
0.0.1 Speckled King WC
0.0.1 Jungle Carpet
0.1.0 Ball, Normal
0.0.1 Sulcata
0.1.0 Wife, Caucasius Mexicana

Congratulations!! don't worry...if there are good snakes in there they will pip in due time. Sometimes there are several days between the first and last to pip in some of my larger clutches.

Dave
DNS Reptiles

Very nice!,......

That is a pretty long time, I assume you had temps in the mid to low seventies at least for them to go that long, although this isn't always necessarily the case.

Anyway, I don't bother carefully slicing a "window" until the second or third day from the first pip. Then after that I usually go ahead and do it. Just be very careful and make sure you cut the shell ONLY, and nothing else..LOL!

again,....looks like the long outcome was well worth it, buddy!

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Thanks Doug.
Yes, they started out in the mid seventies for the first 60 days or so. I increased the ambient temp slightly and they settled around 80 for the last 35 days.
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http://www.mikefoux.com

1.2.0 Hondurans Het Amel
1.1.0 Hondurans Anery, Het Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo, Het Anery
0.2.0 Pueblans
1.0.0 Pueblan Hypo
0.1.0 Corn Bloodred
0.0.1 GBK Blair's Phase
1.0.0 California King
0.1.0 California King Blue-eyed Blond
0.0.1 Speckled King WC
0.0.1 Jungle Carpet
0.1.0 Ball, Normal
0.0.1 Sulcata
0.1.0 Wife, Caucasius Mexicana