After three years....MY FIRST CLUTCH!

(First off, pics coming tonight)

I have been pairing my hypo and het hypo for three years now with no results. This year seemed just as void of results as every other. By this point I've pretty much given up hope of them producing. No blatant ovulation, bulking up, glowing...anything. Then two days ago, I had them paired up and when I went to separate them, she was coiled with part of her hind end on its side. I thought to myself, "hmmm....maybe she DID take this season, it should be a bit till she lays.. " Well, I was wrong. The next day(yesterday) I go to check on everyone, open her tub, to find her coiled up around a clutch!!

Needless to say I'm beaming with excitement! Last night I cleaned my incubator and filled the bottom of it with waterbottles. Today I got the temp up and stabilized at 90*. I also got an egg box and filled it 2:1 with vermiculite:perlite (water mixed in according to sticky here on bpnet).

So while I am letting its temp stabilize in the 'bator, I have a couple questions: Should I hang my herpstat's probe inside the box? and if so, on the substrate or suspended mid air? As for humidity, i think ill pick up a thermometer/hygrometer with the remote probes for the bin. and probably not the last question: is there anything I am overlooking, or any tips you have?

Pictures of both snakes, clutch, and incubator will be posted tonight after the eggs get placed in the 'bator. :D

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Originally Posted by HypoPita

(First off, pics coming tonight)

I have been pairing my hypo and het hypo for three years now with no results. This year seemed just as void of results as every other. By this point I've pretty much given up hope of them producing. No blatant ovulation, bulking up, glowing...anything. Then two days ago, I had them paired up and when I went to separate them, she was coiled with part of her hind end on its side. I thought to myself, "hmmm....maybe she DID take this season, it should be a bit till she lays.. " Well, I was wrong. The next day(yesterday) I go to check on everyone, open her tub, to find her coiled up around a clutch!!

Needless to say I'm beaming with excitement! Last night I cleaned my incubator and filled the bottom of it with waterbottles. Today I got the temp up and stabilized at 90*. I also got an egg box and filled it 2:1 with vermiculite:perlite (water mixed in according to sticky here on bpnet).

So while I am letting its temp stabilize in the 'bator, I have a couple questions: Should I hang my herpstat's probe inside the box? and if so, on the substrate or suspended mid air? As for humidity, i think ill pick up a thermometer/hygrometer with the remote probes for the bin. and probably not the last question: is there anything I am overlooking, or any tips you have?

Pictures of both snakes, clutch, and incubator will be posted tonight after the eggs get placed in the 'bator. :D

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I would hang the tstat probe in the air in the incubator not the egg box. you want the overall temp of the incubator to be 90, if the incubator is sealed well you shouldnt have a problem. I'd stick a thermometer probe in the egg box and have the central unit in the incubator. I'm not sure if your therm is identical but I use the accurite digital from walmart which has a hygrometer as well and haven't had any problems with it. I also use a temp gun to spot check egg box temps. pics now :) best of luck to you


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Here's a little teaser:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...0622011438.jpg

:D

Patience is always rewarded, congrats :gj:

Thanks for the reply :) I think I will do that. Here are two pics of my incubator.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...0628011550.jpg
Funny fact: That rat at the bottom, I bought as a feeder...and she just had babies the same day as my snake laid. lol!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...0628011552.jpg

Would have put them in my previous post, but the 10 mins was up.

More specs:
-3' of 11" flexwatt (down one side, across bottom, up other side.)
-2 fans, on on the left underneath the box on the left, blowing across, then one on the right blowing up
-Bottles covering the bottom
-Herpstat tstat set at 89.7

Alright, I was overly excited to put the eggs in the bin that i didnt get a pic of mom with the eggs..buuuuuut I got the eggs. haha. She was not happy about me moving her! :colbert:

The clutch is 6 eggs. All of them appear to be healthy, aside from being a bit dimpled. Hopefully the humidity in the bator will help that out.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...0628011657.jpg

I was only able to separate the eggs in one spot, where the two top eggs connect to the other cluster. They seemed to dimpled to really get a good grip, without bending the eggs harshly. Maybe they are easier to separate in higher humidity?


.....SO EXCITED! :D:taz:

Congrats on the clutch! It will be so good to get those babies you've been wauiting for!

So Peter.... I'll trade ya a female hypo for my female Woma *wink wink* ;) ;)

It's so cool you finally got eggs from her! Now for the big 2 month wait : :D

Congrats! Good luck!

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dude i LOVE that incubator gotta find me one of them lol