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    Ack first clutch and noticing a few problems.

    So my first ball pipped on friday and I cut on saturday. First 3 have come out and are fine.. but noticing problems with the last two.

    One looks like one of it's eyes hasn't fully developed.. hasn't fully come out and the fluid is kinda bubbly where it keeps sticking it's head in and out of the egg... but it appears if there is an eye there it's very small compared to the other one.

    Is this common? This is my first clutch but my temps and humidity seem like they've been perfect since the beginning So wondering if this is usually a husbandry issue or possibly genetic... can't tell yet but looks like this was my last shot at a mohave-fire out of the clutch.

    Lastly, the last one in the egg hasn't poked it's head out at all.. it's now day 59 and the ball barely moves at all when I touch it's egg... very minimal movement compared to the others. When I found it's head in the egg it looks like it's resting it's nose IN the yolk sac. I can see all the way to where the eye stripes converge towards the nose... then the pits and nostrils are in the sac.

    Should I pull it's head out of this or is it normal and just taking longer to develop. The snake appears fine and normal sized just the lack of real movement and nose in the sac worry me.

    Any response would be appreciated worried a bit about the last one ... want to make sure it makes it but don't want to do any damage by pulling it out of it's sac early.

    I've tried to take pictures but my camera can't get anything that looks remotely distinguishable.

    Thanks

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    Ok first eyes do sometimes develop wrong, but dont worry about it till he's all out. Second all of those bubbles are good! All of my hatchlings do that before they come out of the egg. And the last egg i would just leave him alone. Everything sounds normal to me. They all come out at their own time.
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    Re: Ack first clutch and noticing a few problems.

    Nod, the last one just has me antsy for being less active than the others.. when I cut the others they were all nose up in their eggs... so seeing this one with it's nose sorta buried in the yolk has me on edge.

    Can ya tell it's my first clutch? ha

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    Haha....i have no idea how my incubator maintained its temps on this last clutch. I was in there almost every hour!!!! My single fav snake was in there and the entire reason we got into breeding in the first place!!! So i know how you feel and out of the 7 eggs my bee was the LAST one out of the egg.....silly python
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