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I have a black racer and I would have posted on the racer form but its to slow. One of my racers just laid 13 eggs and I have no idea how to incubate them!!!
please help
jake

Hi Jake,
No worry it is not a big proble. I have hatched out Racer eggs before. They are neat looking things with a grainy almost sand cover look to them. But the eggs are incubated just like a corn snake egg.
this is what I do with them. I use spagham moss to in a rubbermaid container. I drill very small holes in two rows of the rubber maid container around the top half of the container itself, not in the top of it.
Get the moss wet, soaked so it is completly wet, then squeeze out all the water that you physically can to have a nice compacted moist group of moss. break the moss apart to make it "ariy" and put it into you contianer fill the container completly with moss, but not packed tightly, nice airflow through the moss.
Make a nice litter "nest area" in the middle of the container to put the eggs in, remember not to change the position of the eggs as they were laid, if you place the eggs upside down you will kill the embryo inside. once you have place the eggs in the container cover them with a light cover of moss and put the lid on. Keep the eggs in an area where the temps are going to be 78-82 degrees for the next 60 days. I use just the room temp of my snake room and DO NOT try to incubate my eggs. I have even used a screen porch that gets no direct sun to htach the eggs and that works well too. Make sure that the sun is not directly shining through the screen onto the egg box.
Every 2 weeks or so, re-moist the surounding moss, but do not ever disturb the eggs, except to remove any that might go bad. In sixty days you should have baby racers.
Baby reacers are super aggressive and will bite anything LOL. Luckily they are too small to break the skin and cause no harm. They will not normally take pinkies, but I would try that as their first food (please visit my web site for feeding info, link below) More then likely your baby racers will feed on small lizards, small frogs (avoid cuban tree frongs as food, I have heard that they can be toxic?) once the have started to feed you can then try switching them to pinkie mice with scenting (again visit my web site for info on that).
Good luck with them, I hope all goes well!
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

no help for the rude!
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

i am so sorry i was not able to thank you...so thank you

jake