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Hey everyone, boy it feels good to be back here bothering you all with questions.

Over my break I stopped in on the MD reptile show, it was pretty cool and pretty depressing, I had to pass up a Miami I really wanted for $20 and a baby camelion for $25 (GRRRR)...

ANYWAY, my female normal laid her clutch on 4/22/03 I've been incubating around 82-84F since and if I counted right (someone double check my math please) saturday should be day 53?

*I think I read somewhere hatching can take up to 24 hours, if they seem to be having trouble when is it appropriate to intervene?

*There are 14 eggs I'm expecting to hatch, I have 7 plastic shoeboxes ready to roll is it ok to put 2 babies/box?

Any other tips/hints/suggestions in these next few days aside from PATIENCE!!!!

Thanks everyone!

>>ANYWAY, my female normal laid her clutch on 4/22/03 I've been incubating around 82-84F since and if I counted right (someone double check my math please) saturday should be day 53?

I'm not an expert on Corn snakes by any means, but my cal king laid on the night of 4/21/03 and my math matches yours. When You start telling the world they are pipping, I'm going to have trouble leaving my snakes' eggs alone, because I'll know it's "anytime"

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>>*I think I read somewhere hatching can take up to 24 hours, if they seem to be having trouble when is it appropriate to intervene?

I think that I've heard 48 hours, and a lot of people don't "intervene" ever, or not for several days, some will manually pip the eggs after 24 hours, some won't. Again, I don't know this myself, just synopsizing what I've read on this forum.
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>>ANYWAY, my female normal laid her clutch on 4/22/03 I've been incubating around 82-84F since and if I counted right (someone double check my math please) saturday should be day 53?

Your math is right.

: I'm not an expert on Corn snakes by any means, but my cal king laid on the night of 4/21/03 and my math matches yours. When You start telling the world they are pipping, I'm going to have trouble leaving my snakes' eggs alone, because I'll know it's "anytime"

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>>*I think I read somewhere hatching can take up to 24 hours, if they seem to be having trouble when is it appropriate to intervene?

: I think that I've heard 48 hours, and a lot of people don't "intervene" ever, or not for several days, some will manually pip the eggs after 24 hours, some won't. Again, I don't know this myself, just synopsizing what I've read on this forum.

It usually takes 24 hours between the first sign of pipping and the baby snake totally leaving the egg. Don't get up tight if it takes longer.

There might be three or four days between the first egg pipping and the last egg pipping. Again, this is normal and not a reason to get up tight. These later eggs are the ones most likely to be manually pipped by the impatient. But I figure the baby snake is the best judge of conditions, so I let it do its thing without intervention.

I'll open an unhatched egg maybe two weeks after the first egg pipped just to see what the contents looks like. Generally, intervention at hatching time would not have affected the result.

Paul Hollander