ok, my little sister took home the class pets over this vacation, two 3 1/2 foot long corn snakes. Now, yesterday the female started laying eggs, and she laid 16 of them in all. I havent had any experience with snakes, but thinking of how warm it was in their cage, I knew it wasnt good to have the eggs in there. So, I took them out(momma wasnt too happy about that) and put them in a tupperware container with some of the woodshaving stuff that was in their cage, misted them, and put them on the warm side of my leopard gecko's cage, where it is about 80-85. It was the best I could do. Now, the next day, all the eggs look sort of deflated, i have no idea what this means. also, can I keep the eggs in there to incubate? or do i need to find an incubator? Any help would be greatly appreciated. thx
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Deflated Eggs, is this Normal? plus help on incubating.
elcheal
Dec 30, 2005 10:37 AM
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Paul Hollander
Dec 31, 2005 10:46 AM
Those eggs are beginning to dehydrate. They are getting the deflated look because the egg shell is leathery rather than hard like a chicken egg.
First stop is to wet a couple of paper towels, wring them, and then tuck them in around, over and under the eggs. This will retard the dehydration. I will e-mail you directions for incubation.
Paul Hollander
