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Incubating Eggs

Frankie J

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Hi All,
I have a question about the incubation of the eggs. The mother laid about 2 weeks ago. I took them and put them in a hovabator incubator. They are in a rubbermaid style container with hatch rite. The temp in about 88 with humidity about 90%.

My question is, Is it normal for the eggs to get what looks like mold on them? Out of the 8 3 have this. Where the color has changed on the egg it is really soft and almost damp feeling??? :shrug01:

I had the eggs sitting in on the hatch rite but put a piece of mesh to get them off the substrate...:bandhead0

Any thoughts would be great.

Frank
 
What kind of eggs are they? (NVM, I just noticed the forum it's in)

I've heard lots of things about hatch rite, but none of it was any good.

The temps and humidity sound about right to me, the eggs are supposed to be about half buried in your substrate.

Kinda sounds like the three eggs are dead, to me.
 
don't give up on an egg~ no matter how moldy and gross and sunken it looks~ until it starts to stink or go past 60 days. If they feel wet~ sounds like they may be too damp~ moving them above the substrate is a good try. Try not to open the incubator too often. I'd suggest 90F~ but sinse you've already started at 88F don't try to change it now. Just give them 70 days before you give up!

Good luck!
 
Sorry they are ball python eggs. I candled them the other night. All the eggs look the same as far as that goes.
 
Frankie J said:
Yes, the veins...

I live in Salisbury
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Ah, much too far then. Im in western MA.

Just use a small flashlight to look in the eggs. Gently shine it to the side of the egg, a mini mag light works well. You want the egg to Glow, so that you can look and see if there are veins inside. Eggs with veins are good. Eggs that are just yellow with no veins, are more than likely not fertile. Let us know what you see!
 
I have yet another question on these eggs. One of the eggs completly shrivilled up. So I took it out, cut it opened and it looked like a hard boiled egg... I scared all the other eggs are going to dye on me. Temps between 88-90....
 
Another thing you may watch out for is condensation from the lid dripping directly on the egg.
 
03-13-2009 11:48 AM
Frankie J I haven't seen any condensation building up. When is it normal for the eggs to start to sag?
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As far "Normal" I would say a week to ten days before they hatch. It really just depends on your humidity and temps. If you humidity isn't high enough they will collapse at any time during the incubation process. I personally don't measure my humidity, I judge it by the condition of the egg. I have had eggs go to day 58 and still be plump, solid and white.
 
Weird. This is my try at this so I don't really know what I'm looking for. The eggs are only 3 weeks old... They already started to sag (just slightly) and are soft to the touch. But they are still white but have some red blood looking spots on the side of them... I'll see if I can get a pic up of the eggs and the set-up there in.
 
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From what i have read and seen in other threads the spots could just be thin spots in the eggs.
Thats just an idea and you could search and compare to others.
Im sure someone else with chime in and give better help than me
 
Those eggs look fine. Relax, keep monitoring them, but try not to mess with them too often.

I noticed you haven't marked the tops at all. I always place a small pencil mark on the top of the egg so I always know that they are oriented correctly.

Good luck with them!
 
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