Egg Box Question

do you drill holes in your egg box?

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Originally Posted by Joe Massey

do you drill holes in your egg box?

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No. Why would you need to when you want them to hold humidity?

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Originally Posted by Joe Massey

thanks.. i'd better start looking already

QUESTION!

assuming that the eggs go full terms and the babies start to pip/ maybe i cut the eggs when its close to hatching. do i close the lid and-or seal it again and put them back in the incubator?(the given is you have baby snakes pipping already inside of the egg box..

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If you cut or when they pip you leave them in the incubator until they get out of their eggs, once out you put them in a tub together with damp paper towel until they have their first shed.

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Originally Posted by Joe Massey

do you drill holes in your egg box?

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I drill 5 tiny holes in my egg boxes, 3 in the lid and 2 on the sides. It lets me skip the "airing out the eggs" routine as I don't have to worry about stagnant air or oxygen levels. They're also small enough that the humidity doesn't take much of a hit, maybe one or two percent less than a tighter tub.

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Originally Posted by Joe Massey

do you drill holes in your egg box?

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It would defeat the purpose :gj:

As for worrying about air exchange I never had an issue either, I only open my egg box every other day during the very last week of incubation, the rest of the time I do not touch them.

wouldn't it kill the pipping babies? closing the lid with no air holes?

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Originally Posted by Joe Massey

wouldn't it kill the pipping babies? closing the lid with no air holes?

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You already have responses on how air tight some of our tubs actually are.
Short answer.... No

Got it. thanks.. sorry for the noob question.

Not a noob question. Just thought that was already covered here.

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Originally Posted by Joe Massey

wouldn't it kill the pipping babies? closing the lid with no air holes?

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Haven't killed any since 2008 and I hatched a few ;)