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Hognose egg update # 2...

Gregg_M_Madden Jul 06, 2010 11:12 AM

Ok guys,
I am going to keep you all in the loop with how the eggs are doing in the SIM container with the celulose substrate we are testing... We hope to make the substrate part of our product list...

Anyway, in the last update I said that 8 of the 12 eggs looked good and the rest were no good... With that being said, I never toss eggs until they are obviously no good... I wnt from 8 good eggs to now being up to 10 good eggs...

As you will see in the photo below I circled the two bad eggs in red... You will see one egg circled in blue... This was one of the ones I thought was no good... It started to grow a bit of white fuzz on the yellow tip the first 5 days into incubation and was not showing a vascular system... Instead of tossing it, I figured I would clean the mold off and put it in a dryer SIM container... It did not regrow any mold so I figured I would candle it to see what was going on... 2 days later there was clearly a circulartory system growing... The egg is doing great...

So we are now 19 days into incubation and I have since removed the two bad eggs and fed them to my dwarf monitors... LOL...

The remaining 9 in the original SIM are doing great and growing and so is the 10th egg in the dryer SIM container... I will do another update in about 10 days or so with some new photos...

Here is the photo

Replies (9)

CBH Jul 06, 2010 12:42 PM

Cool setup. I know you have discussed the "SIM" container in the past, but do you have more info about it? I have seen and used similar setups in the past.

-Chris
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ddodge Jul 06, 2010 01:06 PM

Thanks Gregg. Those must be some happy monitors

Gregg_M_Madden Jul 06, 2010 01:45 PM

Chris, I sent you an email bro...

D, those varanids are like little garbage cans... Along with infertile eggs, the also get any deformed or dead in egg neonates... They are the best culling tool ever invented... LOL

geckobabies Jul 06, 2010 07:03 PM

Any chance I could get that info about the sponge setup? Thanks (:
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ademar Jul 06, 2010 02:43 PM

Ok. Does this box have any holes in it for ventilations ?

Best regards
Grzegorz

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HOGNOSE BREEDERS - join us !

geckobabies Jul 06, 2010 07:03 PM

Great news! GL!
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davidALfang2 Jul 06, 2010 08:19 PM

Good luck on that "fuzzy" egg. I had one that was so bad & moldy
looking most would have tossed it, but like you I never throw
away funky looking eggs. The other day that moldy gray nasty looking egg
hatched out a little male...that's 100% het for lavender.
Never give up!
David Turcotte

Toaddiggers Jul 08, 2010 09:06 PM

Gregg, I really like those containers. I've had eggs that looked a lot worse than those 3, yet they still hatched. I had one that was ugly brown and yellow, but I didn't throw it out, as it didn't fuzz up or stink. A pink pastel hatched out of that one last year. LOL

Wendell

FastDad Jul 09, 2010 12:40 PM

thanks for the update

keep on doing the good work
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