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My family has had cornsnakes for as far back as I can recall. One day they got the idea to get our common corn snake a friend. That friend turned into a girl snake and one day when they went to take out the blanket they give to the snakes to hid in. They found eggs. Out of 12 eggs 4 hatched. They bought a havabater(small Styrofoam incubator) and vermiculite.

Since then they kept one baby and over the years that baby boy grew up. Since then they got him a girl snake and again it bread. This time I took care of them and out of 8 eggs only 2 hatched and the rest got over run with a fungus or something. And one of the baby's died because it did not want to eat and was not taking force feeding.

Now the reason there current snakes only had 8 eggs is because from what I was told be a pet store owner. It was because she was to young/skinny or it was something about a first clutch Styrofoam.

When we thought she may be breeding again I made her a container with Spagem moss in a Rubbermaid container. And as of right now I have not checked on her for about 3 days and today I found 19 eggs. They are all firm and round. I was told be a local reptile store that they use Purl-lite instead of vermiculite. I put it into a rubber made container and poured water in it and mixed it up real good and crushed up the Purl-lite. I made sure it was all moist and there was no water puddles on the bottom. I took out all 19 eggs and made a small indention with my finger and placed each egg onto the pirllite. I put the container into the havabater and as of right now I am checking it every hour to make sure I keep the temperature at around 80 degrees.

Can you help me make sure I do not over water it and don't kill 19 eggs???? I love the snakes so much I hate the idea that it is me doing the killing. I read somewhere that you can put a moist paper towel over the eggs to help with the humidity, but I also read not to get the eggs wet. A friend told me that I could put a bowl of water next to the container in the incubator to help with the humidity.

HELP GUIDE ME PLEASE! ? :]

82 degrees.......it takes about 60 days....

perlite is ok but it will dry out quicker on top....vermiculite is ok.........I personally prefer to mix them both together....

.paper towel on top is ok.....don't make it wet..make it damp..and warm not hot........warm to us in about 95 degrees actually..but by the time you wring it out and open it and place it on eggs it will cool to ? 80 or less I guess......

.......don't bump eggs......don't turn eggs......
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Thank you for the tips. I was shocked to see someone reply to a question that is probabley so warn out to a lot of more advance people. Now how whould I add water to it? And how do I know what is enough water added to it? The last batch I took care of I just poured water down the side of the container and let it soak into the vermiculite from the edges. And outside of the plastic container I added a ashtray with water, outside of the container inside the hovabater.

Any tips on adding water? I am already looking 30-40 days from now.

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