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Egg Death?? HELP!

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  • 07-09-2010, 02:00 PM
    LadyOhh
    Re: Egg Death?? HELP!
    Mix in completely dry incubation medium (perlite works wonders for this), and cut the wet to dry by 1/3 to a half.

    It will be fine.
  • 07-09-2010, 02:11 PM
    Tim Mead
    Re: Egg Death?? HELP!
    Soggy substrate will not nessasarily kill an egg, Hatched a many that never collapsed due to excess water in the medium..It can or may have developmental issues for the neonate such as runts..During incubation of most pythons you shoot for 100% humidity..Yellow/green staining/widows generally signifies the death of the egg..Some are spouting that foot powder or liquid bandade saves some but if, it in fact died theres no bringing them back to life..RIGHT ?? A common thing seen today is mediums with fertilizer which would spell death for eggs..In our experience if an egg is going to die it usually occurrs inside of 2 weeks..That would be natural issues and not environmental issues though..It affecting the bottoms as it does leads me to believe there may be an additive to your substrate..One more thing to consider is "AIR".. Many now employ the press and seal stuff but an egg is living from day one..It takes on moisture and oxygen and expells Co2 so if it can not breath it sufficates..
    IMO..:salute:
  • 07-09-2010, 02:26 PM
    R&R Reptiles
    Re: Egg Death?? HELP!
    Thank you! We've never let the press-n-seal completely seal our bins because we wanted them to breathe, and there are holes in our lids to let the air circulate a bit, but this is definitely our error. it might be something in the substrate, but the problem seems to be only with our piebalds. One clutch has hatched already and two are doing just fine. Even our last spider egg doesnt' seem to have the problems our piebald eggs do. It's just odd to me that we've done the exact same thing to all of them and yet only our piebalds are experiencing this. I should've been paying more attention. We'll get them off the substrate, all of them, this afternoon and see how that plays out.
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