Day 51, eggs not looking so great

Yup they do look a bit dehydrated. Let us know what you find after you cut. Good luck.

They do look really dimpled, even for eggs that are about to hatch. The humidity could definitely be a problem!

Well I cut them, good news first, it seems we have 4 perfectly healthy and quite active I must say, baby snakes, looks to be two normals and two spiders, Their still in their shell and back in the incubator until they wanna come out on their own. The bad news is two of them didnt make it, one spider and one normal. I'm going to get pics and post them up asap. Very excited even though two didnt make it all the way =(. But for my first time im over all very pleased.

Congrats & sorry, the 2 that didn't make it, how much fluid was in the eggs?

There was quite abit of fluid in them, I pulled the dead snakes out and one didnt look like it had absorbed much if any yolk and the other looked like it died recently. So i'm not sure what went wrong, I put some more water into the incubator just incase the humidity is extremely low, I want these other 4 to make it, so I'm trying everything within my power to do so.

I would think they died bc of the humidity problem. The eggs pretty much were desiccated. I would add the saline to the living ones and cover that top.


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So this saline solution you guys speak of, what exactly is it? Where can I get it? I want to try everything to make this clutch a healthy one.

You can buy it at any pharmacy.

If you want to, you can make your own from one tsp of non-iodized salt added to 1 quart of distilled water. I'm a nurse, and this homemade stuff works fine for wound cleaning on people, so I wouldn't be afraid to use a little to hydrate snake eggs. I've used it to clean wounds on numerous animals and it's worked fine for them too.

Pitch what you don't use in a 2-3 days and make some more if you still need it. The stuff you make yourself is dirt cheap so it's not worth taking a chance of getting some sort of excess crud growing in it.

The normal saline you make at home won't be perfectly sterile but neither is the inside of a cut snake egg--once you cut that egg bacteria enter and reproduce in the egg fluids, and snakes are capable of handling a few bacteria. Use a clean measuring spoon for the salt, make the solution in a bottle or jar that has been cleaned, rinsed in very hot water , and air-dried, keep your fingers out of the inside of the jar, and keep a lid on it when you're not using it. You can even pour the stuff into capped glass baby bottles and sterilize it by boiling if you really want to get nutty about it.

Ok, thanks for the help! I figured that's what the saline was, but I'm just making sure. Now how much would you guys recommend putting in? There's still quite abit of fluid in the eggs, I only lost maybe a couple small drops when I was cutting them.

try and post some pics!!!!
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