curious about morph and sad news.

You may want to keep this one one a wet paper towel in the the incubator until the first shed (I do this with my healthy ones too) so that it's nice and warm and very humid. I put them in a tub that has a few holes in it and keep it right in the incubator set at 89 degrees.

The cord should fall off soon, just let it do its thing.

Thank you for the advice. she is already out of the incubator because she was being incubated at a local reptile store. i wasn't expecting eggs this season so i didn't have an incubator ready when they were laid. That being said i have heavily misted the paper towel in her current bin. and have her on her own thermostat for the time being. on a brighter not i was worried about her going to the bathroom because i wasn't sure if her digestive track had fully formed. however she just peed and passed some urite. i think that's how its spelled. so that one worry off my mind i'll really have to wait to see if she eats. I'm not sure if i should try her on live pinkie mice. for a better chance at her first strike. or if i should just shoot for frozen thawed right away. she is also quite active around her tub right now so I'm liking the signs of this so far.

It's a good sign that she passed something. I always try f/t first. Out of my five that just hatched 3 took f/t instantly.

ya i use frozen thawed for almost all of my bp's except for my original girl. she won't eat frozen for some reason I've tried everything short of braining it. but she only seems to like live. she'll strike the frozen but won't eat it.

FYI, I've seen some nasty moldy eggs still hatch out viable young. I'd never throw out a bad egg, better to just separate it in it's own container and keep it going until a week or so after the last day of scheduled gestation.

the eggs had completely turned black and i think something was wrong with the yolk sacs. hence the reason the one we didn't cut died the following morning. i have heard of moldy eggs hatching out.