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Re: Possible egg problem
As long as there are veins keep them and keep your fingers crossed. I've seen some pretty ugly eggs hatch out just fine.
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Re: Possible egg problem
Just a wild guess. It could be dry spots.
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Re: Possible egg problem
Ummmmm... What gets me is I dont see anything except veins in there.. They are that far along? Thats very odd. At this point I wouldnt think it should be so easy to see through the egg. Is it possible its a very slow developing baby? Ive never seen anything like that before except in turtle eggs.
I would be praying, thats for sure. Leave them be and check them again in a week or 2 to see if there is any development.
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Re: Possible egg problem
What are your incubation temps and are they consistant? How often do you open the door?
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Re: Possible egg problem
Hi,
I think it has something to do with the way I'm candling - I never see anything but veins unless I lift the eggs up out of the substrate and shine the light in from the side or bottom. This was true of the first clutch as well and all nine of them hatched fine on day 57 -60.
The temps I'm using are 88.6-89.1f and they hold fairly steady. I open the incubator about once a week for the first 50 days or so on average then check every day after that. The incubator is a 2foot by 1 foot by 18 inch fishtank 1/4 full of water with an aquarium heater in it so has a large volume of air but also a comparatively large volume of water to keep the temps steady and a rock solid 100% humidity. The eggs are in ice cream tubs that I put mesh tops on when the eggs are due to hatch to prevent the hatchlings possibly falling into the water below the shelf.
This was what I was actually doing ( putting the mesh tops on ) when I noticed the egg had a bulge and decided to candle them all.
You can see two of the lids sitting on top of the sorry excuse in this old picture;
And the inside of it here;
Again that is an old picture - actually of the first ever ball python eggs I ever had, they hatched fine despite being dented to the point of being flat.
I was wondering if not having had them on up until now had allowed water to drip onto this egg - would that cause a bump?
dr del
Derek
7 adult Royals (2.5), 1.0 COS Pastel, 1.0 Enchi, 1.1 Lesser platty Royal python, 1.1 Black pastel Royal python, 0.1 Blue eyed leucistic ( Super lesser), 0.1 Piebald Royal python, 1.0 Sinaloan milk snake 1.0 crested gecko and 1 bad case of ETS. no wife, no surprise.
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Re: Possible egg problem
I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but I had eggs that developed a weird lump earlier in incubation. It looked like this:
I think it was because my substrate was a little too wet. I added a little dry substrate and then moved some of the substrate away from the egg so it could get more air circulation. It started looking better but never completely went away. The baby hatched fine. Hope yours turns out to be ok!
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Re: Possible egg problem
The spots can occur from not enough calcium. Remember females while developing eggs need around close to twice as much calcium intake to develop strong white eggs. Its nothing big dont worry about it.
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Re: Possible egg problem
Dr Del! Hows your babies? Did they hatch?
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