My first clutch went terribly wrong. The female was not acting gravid (very healthy appetite while gravid) nor did we notice any lumps when we checked. We just noticed she was a lot larger than normal. Well she laid 15 beautiful large white eggs to which we were not expecting and they were found midday over 60 days ago. Since we weren't expecting they had become dehydrated a bit. We tried our best to get everything the eggs needed but through the months we had 14 eggs die on us. August second marked day 60 of incubation and when I cam home the egg looked piped. Me and my husband were confused because the cuts looked like it was cut from the outside of the egg since underneath the membrane was still attached. I can see a snake on the inside but, it's not moving at all any time I check. What I want to know is do failed fertile eggs sometimes crack open on their own, or do you think I'm just being overly worried and this is normal for a healthy live snake?
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Please Help! First Clutch.
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In my experience failed fertile eggs do not open on their own. There are two options: 1) the snake died after piping or 2) the snake may still be alive and just resting before its emergence from the egg. I have experienced both, so my best advice is to sit and wait. I know, eggs in the incubator can be nerve wracking! Best of luck! and be sure to update.
I had a female I thought was pregnant very early on in the season, but never filled out fully. She just drop her eggs last week, whenI was expecting them by early June.
Well, long story short, she laid 8 eggs, but one was an obvious slug. The other 7 were in a hovabator within 48 hours of them being laid (about 3 from the time I first noticed them. Still, so far, I've lost three to greenish yellow bacteria. And one looks like it is on the way out.
Three of the remaining eggs have good veins, but they are denting after 10 days in the incubator. The hottest it's gotten in there is 91.2, and the coolest is 86.6, but the overall temp since it's stabilized has been between 88 and 90. The humidity has held steady at a 99.7% the whole time, so I'm not sure why the eggs are denting.
I'm using a hovabator and the no-substrate method with the eggs on a light grate elevated slightly over the incubator's own water lining that has about 1/8 of an inch of water in its chambers. The environment seems right, but the eggs keep failing....
Anyone have any kind of tips?
