Maternal incubation 100% Hatched

[Ronniex2]

Hey All!!

I am ecstatic about my situation rn… I did maternal incubation & got 100% hatching rate… jus let my Henny (Mojave) do her snake mom duties .. This was my first go around… Besides all of the information that I have read, & my own two cents I added based off my research & knowledge … I am adding what I have done, and the pics

To start off I should have been there for the clutch,
I was not, so I was at least more than 24 hours past time Henny had laid them. When I checked on her at 2 o’clock in the morning… After traveling for over 16 hours on a plan… It was not the best situation to have a clutch of eggs and try to pull them apart.
At that point I covered her with her hide and pack it down with the COco husk …
The next two days I had looked more into the maternal incubation. I had done some research prior to the situation, as a worst-case scenario, and with the newfound research there has been a lot of success with this method.
I would not say that I had enough information to do this, but my situation did not allow for me to have a lot of maneuverability when the eggs are stuck together.
I tried to get a bigger tub for the eggs to go into the incubator, but they would have been touching the lid … Therefore leading to direct contact with moisture, so I avoided the incubator situation

That being said, I then removed the hide, the condensation inside the plastic hide, droplets that would have been falling onto Henny and her eggs, & was not worth my stress levels

I then covered her with newspaper, and moistened it, also added a wrapped up piece of plastic from some shrink wrap, enough to cover her and the eggs, to keep the humidity as close to the newspaper, which would then increase the humidity where she was incubating her eggs…

I tried not to mess with her too much, and I let her do her thing. I misted the plastic wrap, and changed the newspaper at least 1-2xs a week to prevent mold growth and check on situation .. get temps -always @87-89° in the rack so I let them cook…

I did not offer food for the first three weeks, then offered her a large rat… needless to say she smashed that rat, and was the only time she ate until after the babies pip’d.
At the 54th day went in just to go check in on her as I read that maternal incubation may take longer …i then saw three little head sticking out of the eggs, I then remove the eggs.. cut them all to aid in pip’n and check on volubility at this point (with 3 out and 2 cutting) this is what I have now that everyone has come out of the eggs

I have been trying to get some help with the identities of this clutch

NORE - Mahogany /Mojave
Henny - Mojave

Now I have:

1 Normal possible??
3 mahogany ?? 2 definitely are but other 2 are like
1 Mojave,
3 mahogany/ Mojave,
1 BEL - Super Mojave

I need help with identifying this mahogany morph,
I know that they look a-lot like normal, but at least two are definitely mahogany, one is most likely the normal… And there is one that is hard for me to identify looks like good fight with the genes
Any help would be appreciated otherwise happy camper here





















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