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I got 3 good kingsnake clutches so far this year, may have 1-2 more coming out.

But I've gotten 2 dud clutches off my house snakes (one from each female I bred). I'm talking NASTY; the eggs were black and red and felt...I don't know how to say it, slimy/squishy? Both clutches were laid 60-70 days after copulation.

2 pair, 2 bad eggs...I'm not sure WTH I did wrong. I'll try again next year but DAMN. Don't know if I need to cycle them? Not to cold temps in the 50s, but maybe to coolish room temp (low 70s/high 60s?). I burmated my kings but everything I read said house snakes didn't need it and were dead easy to breed.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
1.3 African House Snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
1 corn snake
4.3 Florida Kings
2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
1 Argentine boa
1 Texas Rat Snake
1 checkered garter snake

Did the eggs turn bad or did they come out of the females already bad?
You can't rule out that some males can have bad sperm.... Were the 2 bad clutches fathered by the same male?
How did you try to incubate them? Could've got too moist, too hot, too dry, etc..

I'm not sure about house snakes and brumation but I'd assume they go through a cooling cycle like other colubrids before breeding.

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Mike
KingPin Reptiles
www.kingpinreptiles.com

They came out bad. Fathered by different males. I've just never eggs look so damn nasty right out of a female before-it took me a minute to realize that's what they were in fact.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
1.3 African House Snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
1 corn snake
4.3 Florida Kings
2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
1 Argentine boa
1 Texas Rat Snake
1 checkered garter snake