Now there's all this blood coming from the umbilical cord....

[303_enfield]

Good news that it's not actively bleeding anymore, though still attached, but now the SECOND hatchling also came out of the egg with umbilical cord and yolk still attached omg. The veins have not broken yet, yolk is still "alive", and I can tell he is still absorbing the yolk.

I wonder what made both of them crawl out of the egg a bit early.

Did you cut the egg? Less work too get out means an early birth day.

[redshepherd]

Did you cut the egg? Less work too get out means an early birth day.

Ahh I see, that's probably why then. I did cut them a small triangle flap, because my eggs became very tough due to humidity issues and I got worried they won't be able to pip.

[Bogertophis]

I still just have them both chilling in the incubator at 85 degree ambient, but with some air holes in their tub... on damp paper towel. I figure I should wait until both their umbilical cord areas "close" before moving them to their own tub?

Yeah, I'd want them to stay in very close quarters (& on damp paper towels) for the time being...crawling around too much right now could be disastrous.

FYI, I've rarely ever cut eggs, though years back there was one clutch of bull snake eggs that I feared they couldn't cut their way out of, & it did help some.