First ever clutch, unsure of health... help!

So my girlfriend and I have been keeping snakes for a while now, and attempting to breed. We keep BP's and Corns. Well we finally got a clutch from our amel girl Isis.
We bred her to our male ghost Creeper. We woke up to 14 eggs this morning!! I've attached a pic of the clutch in the incubation box, and I'm hoping someone can confirm that they look viable. This being our first clutch, I just want to be sure. Thanks!!
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I am a little concerned, as they dont look clean white like pics I've seen, so fingers crossed!

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Did she have a lay box? If so what was the substrate used?

Im not too familiar with corn eggs but those look the same color as bp slugs... Have you tried candling them to see if u can see anything?

She did have a lay box, which she decided to lay on top of, instead of in the comfy cozy perlite/vermiculite substrate inside of it. I haven't candled the eggs yet, all I had time to do was move the eggs to the incubator and run out the door for work. I plan on candling them when I get home, I just can't stop worrying about them in the meantime!

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usually yellow eggs are a sign of infertility... candle them and try and incubate. A fertile egg tends to stay white. If they get any yellower then they are definatly infertile. You usually have a time frame of when to grab them and its really only a couple hours after they lay..as some may argue that. Candle and if you see some veins give the whole incubation a try if they sour then it wasn't meant to be. and try again. Oh you didn't turn the eggs did you? Thats a NO NO with reptile eggs. Take them the way she laid them and place in your incubator that way. Good luck my friend.

Yeah i was going to say they all look pretty yellow.

Looks like you slugged out.

Well, just for home from work, and the first thing I did was candle the eggs. I'm happy (for now) to report that 13 out if 14 eggs have strong veining. So here's hoping these little eggs beat the odds and hatch out for us! Thanks for all the replies folks, I'll keep updates coming :D

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yes please keep updates. I would like to see the progress! Congrats on your first clutch. Hope everything works out.

Are you shooting for more clutches from them or just that one?

Thanks folks! We are still debating weather to try for another clutch from the same female/male, or throw our snow corn at her. Either way it'll be a bit before we try again with her.

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Awesome, Good luck!!! Hope to one day breed corns. Please do update often

Congratulations on the clutch and those actually look pretty good for corn eggs. I've seen plenty that were a lot worse looking that still made it. Just make sure you keep them warm and the humidity up and you should be fine. You mentioned breeding her again though. Were you hoping for a double clutch this year or looking towards next year?

well its been a while, just over 60 days, but we had our first pip yesterday! We were super excited as we left to get crickets for the cresties. We came home, took a quick peek inside the incubator, and found the first pip completely out of its shell!!! The umbilical was still attached, so we took the snake and put it in a separate bin, with damp paper towel. This morning the umbilical has been dropped and its exploring! Can't wait for the first shed, along with the 12 other eggs to hatch :D
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I'm thinking its a normal, but I really don't care as its the first baby produced by us. :D
Almost forgot, we didn't end up planning to re breed the mom this year, but it looks like she's gone ahead and double clutched anyways lol
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well its been a while, just over 60 days, but we had our first pip yesterday! We were super excited as we left to get crickets for the cresties. We came home, took a quick peek inside the incubator, and found the first pip completely out of its shell!!! The umbilical was still attached, so we took the snake and put it in a separate bin, with damp paper towel. This morning the umbilical has been dropped and its exploring! Can't wait for the first shed, along with the 12 other eggs to hatch :D
http://img.tapatalk.com/63f7dad3-a4c7-f362.jpg

I'm thinking its a normal, but I really don't care as its the first baby produced by us. :D
Almost forgot, we didn't end up planning to re breed the mom this year, but it looks like she's gone ahead and double clutched anyways lol
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They always look super cute at that size don't they? :wuv:

Yeah, even I have to admit that lol. I've always been more of a BP guy, not that I'm against corns, just not really my thing lol. But I'll admit this little one is growing on me :)

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Gratz on the babies and yes, it's a normal, but it should be het for both amel and anery A from the parents. Unless one of your breeders is het for the gene the other carries, all of your babies should come out normal. That's one of the downside of corns in that everything is recessive so it can take awhile to get projects going. However, they are so cute at that age, it's worth it!

Yeah I have been doing a lot of reading on corn genetics, trying to catch that up to what I know about BPs lol. I guess I should have posted my other thread as a reply to this topic, but as it turns out, our male ghost must be het for amel because we have one little amel pipping out as of this morning. Quite exciting, as not only was it completely unexpected, but its also the first het we have proven out :D

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Yeah I have been doing a lot of reading on corn genetics, trying to catch that up to what I know about BPs lol. I guess I should have posted my other thread as a reply to this topic, but as it turns out, our male ghost must be het for amel because we have one little amel pipping out as of this morning. Quite exciting, as not only was it completely unexpected, but its also the first het we have proven out :D

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Gratz again! I've noticed that almost all corns are het for something or another since the only morphs until a couple years ago were recessive. To this day, I think there is still only one dominant gene, the tessera. They make for a nice little surprise though!