Please help me !!!

I have a ball python shes about 4 well we've had her about 1 year & last sunday she laid 5 eggs [which all looked great] but we had no idea she was pregnet, so i went online & i've been reading everything & ne'thing i can find on how to take care of them. At first we were gonna leave them with the mom, but the eggs started to demple so we built a styrofoan cooler incuator.
needless to say now there soked & they look really bad, the condensation keeps dripping on them, but other parts look like there drying out. Oh & they kinda stink. I know your not susposted to candle them but i had to see if there was ne'hope, a few days ago i could see veins in all of them not 2 of them im not sure.
im new at this & the last thing i want is for them to die because i didnt do stuff right. I need to know if there ne'thing i can do to save them. [if they can be saved]
will some one please try & help me !!!
p.s. We keep the temp at 84-85 & hum at 90%
i can take a picture but im new to this site & i dont see how to upload one.

Well first of all I'm going to say that if they are starting to stink then they are morethan likely dead. if it were me and this is just me I figure out a way to get the dripping problem fixed.

Second thing is 84-85 is way cool for BP eggs to incubate 87-90 is more like it.

Candleing them is fine just remember that opening a smaller incubator can lead to pretty high temp spikes..

Best of luck.

if they got too wet you killed them. the stink is the sign of them going bad. you need to candle them with a light ot see if there is veins in them. If there are then its a good egg.

You want the eggs at 88-89oF with 95% humidity or higher
Codensation can occur so you will have to adujust accordingly.

WE need a picture of how you got this all setup.

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Originally Posted by angelmarie

I have a ball python shes about 4 well we've had her about 1 year & last sunday she laid 5 eggs [which all looked great] but we had no idea she was pregnet, so i went online & i've been reading everything & ne'thing i can find on how to take care of them. At first we were gonna leave them with the mom, but the eggs started to demple so we built a styrofoan cooler incuator.
needless to say now there soked & they look really bad, the condensation keeps dripping on them, but other parts look like there drying out. Oh & they kinda stink. I know your not susposted to candle them but i had to see if there was ne'hope, a few days ago i could see veins in all of them not 2 of them im not sure.
im new at this & the last thing i want is for them to die because i didnt do stuff right. I need to know if there ne'thing i can do to save them. [if they can be saved]
will some one please try & help me !!!
p.s. We keep the temp at 84-85 & hum at 90%
i can take a picture but im new to this site & i dont see how to upload one.

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We need pics- your image needs to be in a Photobucket or similar acct. then you click the little yellow square icon at the top of the text box to insert the link for the pic.

Wait, so you've had this female for about a year and she suddenly lays eggs and you didn't know she was gravid. Is she being housed with another snake (possibly a male) or did you purposefully breed her?

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

Wait, so you've had this female for about a year and she suddenly lays eggs and you didn't know she was gravid. Is she being housed with another snake (possibly a male) or did you purposefully breed her?

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Keep in mind females can retain sperm for over a year sometimes. could be from a pairing before she got the snake and now its producing from that.

It also could be just sexual maturity eggs as well. Some female snakes will lay eggs once in a while in their life time when sexual mature. Corn snakes do it more than ball pythons do.

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Originally Posted by flameethrower

It also could be just sexual maturity eggs as well. Some female snakes will lay eggs once in a while in their life time when sexual mature. Corn snakes do it more than ball pythons do.

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i've never heard of BPs laying infertile eggs like geckos, chams or other species of snakes do..

can someone else chime in on this?

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Originally Posted by cinderbird

i've never heard of BPs laying infertile eggs like geckos, chams or other species of snakes do..

can someone else chime in on this?

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This thread should help you

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=96134

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Originally Posted by cinderbird

i've never heard of BPs laying infertile eggs like geckos, chams or other species of snakes do..

can someone else chime in on this?

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There's a thread on this site about a virgin BP laying eggs (infertile).... posted just a few days ago.

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Originally Posted by Elise.m

This thread should help you

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=96134

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Originally Posted by NorthernRegius.com

There's a thread on this site about a virgin BP laying eggs (infertile).... posted just a few days ago.

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thank you!

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/m...RES/s002-1.jpg

i just want to start by saying NO we didnt breed her on purpose!!! we got her ABOUT a year ago, from a guy here in Port Charlotte, but when we went & picked her up he did have her in a cage with 2 other males. but we thought she was just fat & a good eater. she was bigger from the 1st day we got her.
i put a paper down over the eggs [?] to catch any drips but it's slowed down alot.
my cooler is small but thats the only size stryofoam cooler they had at wallmart.
also i candled them again last night & 4 do have veins, & the other 1 im not so sure about, but i also read that they can have veins & still be bad [?]
if anyone has any ideas on how i can make this set up better im all ears !!!!