Weird-looking eggs

[GalaxyMom]

Hi, all. First time/unintended breeder here. I’ve had my female pinstripe and male pied for 6 and 5 years, respectively. Never planned on breeding them, just love them for their laid back personalities. However, I put the male into the female’s tank for an hour a few months ago, to clean out a whopping poop/water bowl spill, while my kids were home (young kids, couldn’t “wear” the snake like I normally do while tank cleaning—I have since gotten a “snake box” to put them into while cleaning. But I digress), and although I never saw them lock up, she laid 8 eggs on 8/1/18 (this past Wednesday). They could be viable, so I’m incubating them per normal BP incubation guidelines. My question/problem is that one egg has begun to look weird: like the white calcium “shell” of the egg is disintegrating. It started off as one small spot, but has progressively gotten a bit larger each day. Now, I’m seeing that another one is showing the same signs. There are visible veins in the eggs, and I’m continuing to incubate it as I am the others, and not disturbing them at all. They are on perlite. Temps are 88.9-90, humidity is 85-90%. Has anyone ever experienced this before? And is there anything I should/can do to arrest the continuing disintegration? Thank you in advance!

[Bogertophis]

Photo would help, but as long as they appear viable, just wait & see. Not all eggs that hatch still look picture-perfect.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Without a picture no one can answer your question, their are several things that you can see on eggs

Calcium deficiency, bumps, windows, mold, wet spot.....

[GalaxyMom]

So sorry—had to switch to Tapatalk to add photos. Here’s the whole setup (disregard that thermometer/hygrometer—it died a bit after the pic was taken, but I have 2 others also in there—with probes).


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[Stewart_Reptiles]

The eggs are getting too wet, they might still be salvageable (if there are good veins still), what I would do is go to home depot buy a light diffuser, cut it to size and get the eggs off the substrate.

Do something that will look like this

[GalaxyMom]

THANK YOU!!!!!! I’ll be going to the Home Depot in an hour. Thank you so much!!!


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