I placed two bowls in her cage, one with vermeculite and the other bowl was a combination of moss and vermeculite. She laid the eggs in the bowl with the moss and vermeculite. Both were moist. I placed the bowl in a large plastic container. The egss are at the bottom of the bowl sitting against the plastic, surrounded by the moss and vermeculite.
1) Do I need to remove the eggs and put them on TOP of vermeculite? If so, how?
21)Do they really need to be at a certain temperature?, incubation etc.
Thank you for your assistance.
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HELP! My calking laid 6 eggs yesterday, questions>>>
dudifusmaximus
May 18, 2005 08:46 PM
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snakes
May 19, 2005 01:22 AM
Hi!
Congratulations!
Personally, I would move the eggs on top of your medium. This is safer.
You just take eggs very gently, being carefull not to rotate them, and place them on top of the medium. If some of them are connected together - you take gently the whole group.
Temperature fluctuations can cause some problems if they are too high. The best is constant temperature - personally I use 28C (82,5F) in my colubrid incubator.
Best regards
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Paul Hollander
May 19, 2005 05:18 PM
The oldtime advice was to put snake eggs in a warm place. If you keep them somewhere between 80 F and 88 F, they will do fine, though 82-86 is better. If they get above 92 F for more than 24 hours, they might be damaged. A temperature below 75 F won't hurt the eggs, but the embryos will not develop until they are warmed up. Good luck.
Paul Hollander
