I don't think I would mist the eggs. It's ok to mist the substrate, but keep the water off of the eggs.

Eric

Congrats Tony! I just saw this thread for the first time.
I've never incubated couperi eggs but the cribo eggs I've incubated were very hardy and didn't seem that sensitive to minor humidity fluctuations. I incubated mine on a shelf and I might have added a little water once during the entire incubation process. Couperi eggs might be different but I've never had a fertile cribo egg go bad during incubation and I don't obsess over them.

By the way, your eggs look fertile to me in the pic. I posted photos of my melanurus eggs last year and people thought they looked infertile. I think Dry eggs tend to look yellow and shiny in pics for some reason (I think it was the flash in my case).

I wish I lived in a state that allowed me to buy one of your babies. Being able to see them in the wild is a pretty good consolation prize though.

Houston, we have first pip!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

I went in to check on the eggs today, and sometime within the last 24 hours, on day 100, the first baby pipped! I thought I was an emotional wreck before. Now I'm REALLY going nuts!!! So say your prayers, cross your fingers and toes, rub that buhda, and hopefully they will all emerge safe and healthy, very soon.

That's awesome dude, congrats!!!

Hopefully they will ALL hatch out healthy & a few of the people on the list ahead of me will back out. :hehe:

Eric

Awesome! Congrats Tony! You gotta love it when even the moldy ones hatch :)
I can't wait to see pics when they're out. Days like this make me wish I wasn't a Floridian so I could keep a few of those guys.
Congrats again on being one of the few to have success with couperi this year.

Outstanding! Congrats Tony. Keep the pictures coming.

Thanks guys! I can't wait to hold the lil fellers, and see what they all look like. I'll post more pics as they emerge.
T.

Here's #1
 

This is the first one out. I guess you could call it "balck phase". He or she was out and about this morning. So I snapped a couple pics, and transfered into it's individual tub. I'm on cloud 9. I hope the feeling never fades!
T.

I love the iridescence on that snake! Let's see the rest of them.

Eric

Number two is out, but was very squirmy, so I didn't take a pic. Looking very nice, with no white, and an incredible blue glow.

But I have some bad news,...One which pipped yesterday, died in the egg for some reason. I think it just couldn't get out. There were scratch marks all over the inside of the egg, but the whole he had made at the top, had sealed itself up again. And compared to the other two, his belly had not absorbed any yoke. I guess he was just out of energy. If I'd known, I'd have run through a hail storm of bullets to save him. What a precarious buisness this is! I'm bummed about it, but not overwhelmed. I still have some degree of success. And I am thrilled for every one!!!

There are currently three more pipping at this time. Say your prayers, cross your fingers and toes, and rub that Buhda! PLEASE!!!
T.