Help...Strange looking eggs! Pictures!

[Vilenica]

And well ball pythons dont eat eggs so idk where you keep getting these weird assumptions from.

What weird assumptions? If you were in the middle of a savannah in the ground/mound with nothing around for an acre and you just layed a clutch of infertile eggs and no rodent was in your burrow you would eat your eggs too. Granted this wouldnt happen in captivity, again Im speaking not in captivity.

[Vilenica]

Yes one of my roll out eggs that hatched in 2007 laid a 5 egg clutch this season.

And i do not maternal incubate my eggs at all.

Its starting to sound like your roll outs arent rejects. If you dont maternal incubate at all. How long after the lay are you splitting them up? Maybe she didnt have a chance to regroup? Ive had snakes lay in 30 minutes on the other hand Ive had snakes take 6 hours and regather a stray (fertile egg during the process)

[RichsBallPythons]

Its starting to sound like your roll outs arent rejects. If you dont maternal incubate at all. How long after the lay are you splitting them up? Maybe she didnt have a chance to regroup? Ive had snakes lay in 30 minutes on the other hand Ive had snakes take 6 hours and regather a stray (fertile egg during the process)

They are taken from the female once they are found. Usually the night after work or in the morning before work so it could be hours before i find them.

[Vilenica]

They are taken from the female once they are found. Usually the night after work or in the morning before work so it could be hours before i find them.

Gotcha so there is time with the mother cool. That is interesting ive never known of it, Im gonna have to start a thread on the subject because its a great topic.

[BaierBalls]

Thats cool and my quote did say I would love to hear about it. And your not the only one in this post incubating rollouts, and I dont blame you I do to. But everyone is still incubating and quick to say Im wrong so update me when the snakes have hatched. In my eyes they're was a reason your momma snake didnt adjust her coil to nurture those eggs. I think the main reason would be no heartbeat. Hey maybe theyre picky and would kick out irregular beating eggs? Third reason could be momma snake is stupid or is working on population control. Maybe come day 40 those are planned meals for nestbound momma. Im not sure but again (and Ive never talked to G.Graziani, or BB or even my buddy next to muddy waters) Ive never heard of good eggs not being covered by a brooding mom.

I personally think these two got left out simply because she decided to lay her eggs in a hide that was not tall enough for her to coil all the eggs easily. This was her first time breeding. I think she laid them, attempted to coil them and there was simply not enough room in the hide for her to coil completely around all 6 eggs, and two rolled out.

I took it as another "first time breeding lesson learned"...take out the smaller hide when egg laying is near!

[Gavin Cooper]

Is it not good to have any condensation on the inside of the tub? I replaced the "too-wet" vermiculite with dry vermiculite last night, but because of the humidity in my incubator, there is still condensation that forms on the inside walls of the tubs. It is a very small amount though.

Those of you that use substrateless incubation, and just use soaked vermiculite underneath your grate...I don't see how you would get no condensation inside the tub?

I'm a little late to this post but here's what mine look like. The humidity should be in the egg tub only and not your incubator. My incubator runs around 30% humidity but my egg tubs run 100% humidity. As you can see my substrate is soaked and even has water on top. I also want to say that my incubator is a freezer converted and has fans to circulate the air flow and contol any hot spots.

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Gavin