Was this just not meant to be? Or could this have been avoided somehow?
First clutch of the year. Laid weeks before all the others. Eggs all looked great. 49 days in, 5 eggs started turning green. The two good ones pipped sometime last night or this morning.
As soon as I found them, I knew something was wrong. They were not scared when I opened the lid. One was already dead. The other still alive but very weak and flopped over. I touched the head and it gave a yawn and died shortly after. They look like normal snakes no deformity or anything.
I need to know if this clutch was just genetically screwed from the begining or something wrong with my incubator. I'm no expert but this is my third year breeding and it's not exactly my first time around the block.
Up until last year I had a small styrofoam incubator but this year I had many clutches and made a fridge type incubator. I can not find anything wrong with it and found temperatures to be completely even, left to right, top to bottom, front to back. Two thermostat probes one near upper part one near lower part, temps did not vary more than 1 degree, ever.
Why would they pip and immediately die like that?
If something is wrong I need to know it. I have 53 more eggs in there.
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