Unexpected eggs! What to do now?

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My female cinnamon mojave just layed a cluth of eggs i wasnt necesarily expecting. Ive had her for about 3 months and the person i got her from said she locked up with her black pastel a month or so before i got her but had showed no signs of being gravid. Just went to check on her today and i have a clutch of 5 eggs! Now im not sure what to do.

I dont have the extra cash laying around for an incubator so i guess my only option is to let her maternally incubate them. I have her in a rack and its about 91 degrees on her hot spot but ambient temps in my house are usually 72 degrees but sometimes my roomate turns it down to like 66 i keep telling her i need the constant higher temp for my snakes but shes not too fond of my snakes and doesnt care and keeps turning it down anyway...i put some moss i got from the pet store in there to raise the humidity in there but im a little worried about the temp fluctuations. Im moving out at the end of february because me and my roomate havent been seeing eye to eye on a lot of things and should be able to keep a higher constant temp at my new place but they will already be about 50 days old by then...and my move out date is pretty set in stone i dont really have much of a choice to move sooner or later than feb 29th so they are staying here for now...any advice or suggestions on what i should do from here or is keeping humidity up with the moss and trying to keep ambient temps as steady as i can going to be adequate to get a successful hatch u guys think? Or is the temp fluctuation probably too much for the eggs?

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An incubator would really be the best... But maternal incubation can be successful. There is a thread on here in the breeding section right at the top that has everything you need to know about maternal incubation. You will also need a small hatchling rack or another way to house the hatchlings once they hatch.

Are there any breeders/friends in your vicinity that might allow you to put the clutch in their incubator until you can get one up and running? They really are relatively inexpensive to make, especially if you only have a single clutch. You could use a small Styrofoam cooler and you'd probably not even need a fan to circulate the air as it would be such a small space.

I may be a little late to this post but be sure she is finished laying, just wanted to throw that out there as in the pic it doesn't appear she has settled in and wrapped the eggs

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Oh ... And congratulations!! :D

I went to the Kansas City reptile expo today and found a decently priced incubator so they are in the incubator now :) thanks for the replies

Oh but one question about using the incubator, its a ZooMed Reptibator and ive been reading about incubation and EVERYTHING ive read talks about what substrate to use and i was curious, is the subatrate basically only used to keep the humidity up and not allow them to dry out? The repribator is made so u can put water in the bottom then a foam insert goes on top of that so it stays nice and humid in there already. Right now i have them in a plastic tub with no substrate and that tub is sitting on the foam. Do i absolutely NEED substrate still or is it fine with this setup since its nice and humid in there?

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I went to the Kansas City reptile expo today and found a decently priced incubator so they are in the incubator now :) thanks for the replies

Oh but one question about using the incubator, its a ZooMed Reptibator and ive been reading about incubation and EVERYTHING ive read talks about what substrate to use and i was curious, is the subatrate basically only used to keep the humidity up and not allow them to dry out? The repribator is made so u can put water in the bottom then a foam insert goes on top of that so it stays nice and humid in there already. Right now i have them in a plastic tub with no substrate and that tub is sitting on the foam. Do i absolutely NEED substrate still or is it fine with this setup since its nice and humid in there?

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Congrats on the clutch and also bagging the incubator. That Zoo med product is a very good product. You have to be very careful by moving the eggs around too frequently. It would be good to have a light diffuser on top of any material substrate as to keep the eggs "substrateless". Only if it's really doable at this point. Keep the eggs in the tub but don't let them get wet or change the orientation too much. Try to make sure there are no holes in the tub and that the eggs won't roll inside the tub. Good luck.

Wow very nice looking clutch and lucky you buy one snake get 5 free :)

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