EGGS! Help!

[wilomn]

Corns don't incubate their eggs. It's strictly a lay em and leave em arrangement.

What is the temp in your reptile room? In mine it averages 82 so I just set my eggs up in plastic containers with vermiculite or pearlite and put them on a shelf until they hatch. I've done the incubator thing for years too but if your room is the right temp, you don't need to do anything.

[Blue Apple Herps]

You don't need an incubator to successfully hatch corn eggs, so don't stress over that.

Put them in some damp vermiculite or sphagnum moss in a tupperware like container or a plastic shoebox. Then put them in a place that stays between 75-82. You don't really need to "incubate" corn eggs in that they do just fine incubating at room temp. So if your room temp is fairly steady and doesn't get in the low 70's or mid 80's then just put them in the top of a closet or something. I've done it this way for 14 years now.

[Blue Apple Herps]

Just make sure that the temps and humidity is right in the snake’s enclosure, and let the mom maternally incubate the eggs until your friend can set up a proper incubator.

For maternal incubation, keep the ambient heat slightly lower than optimum incubation temperature (so 80-82). Even corns can somewhat raise the temp of the eggs, but she cant do anything to cool them. Also, too cold is a lot better than too hot.

Corns don't maternally incubate their eggs. They set 'em and forget 'em. Leaving them with the mom isn't such a good thing as they need to be put in a humid environment fairly quickly. They will dehydrate very rapidly if left in the cage. A cage for corns with good humidity will be too low for corn eggs.

[blackcrystal22]

Thank you everyone for the help! i really appreciate it.

I didn't think corns did the maternal incubation thing?

I've read that some people hatch corn eggs by just putting them in a closet...no incubator. I would assume this requires a place that has a fairly steady and slightly warm temp compared to average room temperature.

I'd be real concerned that the uncontrolled heat pad that is being used right now is going to cook them.

The heat pad is not completely uncontrolled, however, I told her to remove it.

Corns don't incubate their eggs. It's strictly a lay em and leave em arrangement.

What is the temp in your reptile room? In mine it averages 82 so I just set my eggs up in plastic containers with vermiculite or pearlite and put them on a shelf until they hatch. I've done the incubator thing for years too but if your room is the right temp, you don't need to do anything.

Well, my reptile room is my bedroom, but that has thermostats and a space heater by the rack. Her basement (so she told me) is at an average 80 degrees right now because they haven't turned the air on yet.

Is there anyway I can get vermiculite/perilite fast? I know how to wet it, but I was always planning on ordering it for my own breeding purposes. I'm not sure where I could buy some that's not too far away?

[Hulihzack]

Should be able to pick up perlite at the garden section of walmart/home depot for like $3.

[blackcrystal22]

Should be able to pick up perlite at the garden section of walmart/home depot for like $3.

Doesn't it need a mixture of perlite and something else? (other than water obviously).. I've rarely seen anyone use perlite alone, or is that actually alright to do?

[wilomn]

You can use either of them alone or a combination.

[blackcrystal22]

You can use either of them alone or a combination.

Is one really better than another?

I'll be picking some up tomorrow.

[wilomn]

Vermiculite gets mushier.

I've never found a noticable difference as far as hatch rates or anything, I just use what I have the most of. This year it's pearlite. No vermiculite at all.

Be sure to keep it moist though.

[rabernet]

Be sure that the Perlite that you pick up does not have additives, like Miracle Grow. Home Depot and Walmart all have Miracle Grow in them (at least the ones I checked). I had to pick mine up from a local garden chain (Pike's Family Nursery in the metro Atlanta area).