Hi! So, I've tried breeding my two jungle carpets for a few years now and this was the first time I got eggs. Unfortunately some were bad right away, and then some died after about a week. Near the end there were only about 8 our of 22 that still looked decent, and they ended up going bad as well. I have a couple questions for someone more experienced than myself. I had the temp between 87 and 89, humidity around 95%. They were on vermiculite. What could cause them to all die off like they did? I'm wondering if it was a mistake I made, or because the female had never laid before, or for some other reason. I'm also wondering about the color. In the picture you can see that both embryos are about the same size, but one clearly has black and the other doesn't. There were a few other ones that lacked color as well, about 3 of the 10 or so we opened up. This one was the only one that made it to that size and the others were much smaller, so we didn't know if it was just that they hadn't developed black until we had this one to compare the black ones to. The female is a snake I bought from a pet store labeled jungle carpet, and the male is a VPI like pure jungle I got from Black Hills Pythons a few years back. As far as I know there aren't really any jungle color morphs so I'm seriously confused. Any help would be incredibly appreciated.
I don't understand why they would have developed this far and then died I guess.
Below are pictures of the parents, mom then dad.
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