Quote Originally Posted by RellesReptiles View Post
You seem to have had a pretty bizarre season all around, what with mystery genetics and strange egg problems...
The big hard yolk sack problem I have seen before (online, not personally) so that's not a completely unusual thing to happen, but as for having so many twins... that half formed one... Very weird, interesting, and unfortunate.
Did you do anything different with incubation than you normally do? Also, is there any chance you had parents that were closely related? Just some thoughts.
Didn't do anything different with incubation than normal. My incubator is very stable, and I had problems with only 2 of 16 clutches (that have completely hatched) so far. With it being the third and twelfth clutches, I would have expected more clutches to show problems if it was incubator related, especially since 2014 clutch 11 was laid and pipped on the same days, so it would have experienced the exact same incubator conditions.

As for close relations, 2014 Clutch 3 was completely unrelated, the mother was produced by Tim Lane of Ballroom Pythons, and the father was produced by Outback Reptiles. 2014 Clutch 12 was a double het pairing, so I assume that they were siblings, but don't know for sure, since I didn't produce them, and I got them from someone who traded a third person for them.

I really wonder if I could have saved the 2 that died coming out of the eggs? Just want to know for future clutches.