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I am incubating 14 corn snake eggs in sphagnum and when I checked them last night two eggs on one end of the clump were starting to get covered with mold. Any advice?

Leave them alone. It won't hurt good eggs.

put some gold bond powder on the moldy eggs
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If eggs start to develop mold right after being laid, they were not fertile eggs. Usually this mold is a blue/green color and the egg will look as if it is sweating. If the eggs have incubated for some time and then started to develop mold, they may have died. This is not always the case so you may want to try what has worked for me in the past. Use medicated foot powder, gold bond is what I used. First wipe the egg off gently with a q-tip. Do not touch any of the other eggs with this q-tip. That would spread the fungus. Then sprinkle a small amount of the medicated foot powder around the egg and over the top of it. Check it daily and repeat this in a couple of days. Within a couple of days you should be able to see if you have stopped the fungus or not. If the fungus continues and theeggs start looking worse, they are lost.
Also, as I'm sure others will post, healthy eggs resist fungus. It's just not always the case and you have nothing to lose.
I can post a pic of my success with the medicated powder if anyone has a doubt about my post.

The eggs did not develop mold for over two weeks. I had checked the clump periodically but not the whole clump as I did not want to disturb them too much. Yesterday was the first time I checked the whole clump in a week and a half so I cannot pinpoint when it began. The mold is greenish and envelops the about half of each egg. Both eggs are on the outside of the clutch and the mold has attacked the end of the eggs opposite the rest of the clutch. The portion of the eggs in question that is not moldy looks as good as the other eggs which have not been attacked. Could this be from being buried too tightly in a more moist part of the moss, restricted air flow? This is my first clutch ever for any species and I am not sure how moist to keep the incubation medium. Thanks for any help.

From your description, green mold but only on one end, I think the eggs may still be good. Get some of the gold bond medicated foot powder. You have nothing to lose by trying!!!
Keeps us posted. If you have a digital camera, take some pics.

I did the treatment tonight. This is a picture of one of the affected eggs. the whole dark spot was not fuzzy with mold but was becoming fuzzy on the underside of the dark area. The other egg is less affected and that portion is not visible in this view. Thanks, David.
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David