egg and incuabation questions!?!?

[Lucas339]

so a friend of mine gave me some eggs. I set up a cooler incuabtor and have them running at 88ish. he thinks they were laid on the 28th. one of them shows good veins but the others only have a small red line on the side of the egg. im guessing the ones with no veins are bad.?!?

also, im using a vermiculite setup with the eggs on top of lighting grate. i mixed it good....well i think. it looked just like everyones example. i have a hole in one side of the 6qt tub for the thermo probe and the temp probe. i am getting a lot of condenstaion on one side of the egg box and on the top of the press and seal. this morning i wiped off the condenstation and noticed that some drops fell on a couple of the eggs. luckily it was the ones i think are no good. how detrimental is this to good eggs? and should i try and dry the setup a bit? im not sure if it dripped when i was pulling back the press and seal or if it happend without me touching it. there seems to be no real pooling of water on the press and seal. so im not sure.

suggestions??? please don't give me you should have had this setup before the eggs....i wasn't suspecting this.

[llovelace]

re-check for veining in a few days, do you have a fan in your bator?

You may want to remove your temp probe from inside the egg box.


P.S. Thanks again for sexing my snake

[Lucas339]

the cooler is small so there is not fan. also everyone says to put both probes inside the box near the eggs so the acutal egg box temp is what is reflected.

no problem! glad this one turned out to be female for you.

[Lucas339]

ok lisa your right. sorry. i found that here: http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=85524

i just wondering if the other eggs are good or not. there is just a small area of red on the sides. anyone with comments on that.

[Lucas339]

ok found the above on another site.

now what happens if i get drops of water on the eggs?

[llovelace]

I read somewhere that they put a paper towel over eggs, I don't really know how helpful this is, I'm sure our seasoned breeders will chime in with helpful suggestions

[llovelace]

keep us posted Lucas

[rabernet]

You get condensation when the temps inside the egg box aren't the same as the temps outside the eggbox. Do you have a fan to help circulate the air in your incubator?

If you see water drip on the eggs, it's ok to wipe it away with a paper towel. I wouldn't however, drape paper towel over the eggs, as they need to be able to breath.

[littleindiangirl]

If there are weak veins, the egg will likely mold and shrivel up after a while. Once it starts getting really nasty, you can be certain the egg is dead.

If the egg starts to get a little mold on the outside, but has strong veins, just wipe the egg of any mold.

Who would give you eggs like this?

[Lucas339]

i dont have a fan in the incubator. it is really small and adding a fan would only cramp things. i took the probe out last night and put it on the shelf to try and reduce condensation. water only dripped on it once and i wiped it off as soon as i noticed it.

this guy down the road gave them to me. he was just going to toss them so i'd thought id give it a try and see if i could work out all the kinks with an incubator for next season when i produce my own eggs.

i think only one egg is viable. out of 5 i have one that has strong veins, and 2 that show a wide red band and a small circle like shadow in the egg. the others are empty. would have been cool to see 5 babies hatch out but hey 1 is better than none right!!! i have my fingers crossed that it goes well!! and if not.....i gave them a chance!