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Just came home from vacation and my female laid her eggs outside of the laying box. She laid them outside of the box on the floor of the vision cage. They couldn't have been there for more than 3 days. She was coiled around them just off the heat source, I'm not sure what temp they were because I got them out as quickly as possible but they felt extremely warm. The female had plenty of temp choices where she could lay them because she is in a 4ft vision cage, so I'm hoping that she made the right choice. The other thing is they are pretty mishapen, I'm used to lots of colubrid clutches and they usually are well formed, but these are not good full ovals, but I candled them and they are definitely fertile. It was a clutch of 5, 4 fertile and 1 slug. If these were colubrid eggs, from my experience I think they would make it, but this is my first clutch of BP eggs, so I'm not sure how delicate they are. What do you think the chances of them hatching are?

DO YOU HAVE A NUMBER THAT U CAN BE REACHED AT I JUST HATCHED MY VERY FIRST CLUTCH OF EGGS THIS 3 DAYS AGO

I am not a stranger to hatching eggs, be it Leopard Geckos, bearded dragons, and plenty of colubrids. To me these eggs seem very dehydrated. My concern is that as far as I can understand it, ball python eggs (or python eggs in general) are not as tolerant to being in direct contact with moisture. So what is the best method to rehydrate? Right now I have them in an incubator set with a helix thermostat at 90 degrees, they are DIRECTLY on a 1:1 by weight mix of water and vermiculite. I don't think they should stay directly on the damp vermiculite but they just seem so dehydrated. And what are there chances after becoming dehydrated even though they candled fertile?

I hatched my first clutch of possible het for orange glow this year (poss het albino poss het NERD line orange ghost babies) and the eggs were incubated partially buried in vermiculite at the same moisture ratio you used.

Ed

I USED A LITTLE GIANT STILL AIR INCUBATOR THE EGGS STARTED DIMPLING IN TO EARLY FROM LACK OF HYDRATION SO I PLACED A WAD OF NEWSPAPER 1/4 INCH THICK UNDER THE EGGS AND SPRAYED THE EGGS AND THE NEWSPAPER DOWN WITH "WARM" WATER EVERY 2-3 DAYS AND I HAD 100% HATCH RATE

You know, when you write in all caps it seems like you're yelling. It's a bit distracting when reading a message and would be much easier to read without it. Just a suggestion...

...but I've given up on reading the posts. I see all caps and it hurts my eyes. So I just hit my back browser. Sorry.

Chris
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