Egg Box Question

[Joe Massey]

do you drill holes in your egg box?

[PitOnTheProwl]

do you drill holes in your egg box?

No. Why would you need to when you want them to hold humidity?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

thanks.. i'd better start looking already

QUESTION!

assuming that the eggs go full terms and the babies start to pip/ maybe i cut the eggs when its close to hatching. do i close the lid and-or seal it again and put them back in the incubator?(the given is you have baby snakes pipping already inside of the egg box..

If you cut or when they pip you leave them in the incubator until they get out of their eggs, once out you put them in a tub together with damp paper towel until they have their first shed.

[John1982]

do you drill holes in your egg box?

I drill 5 tiny holes in my egg boxes, 3 in the lid and 2 on the sides. It lets me skip the "airing out the eggs" routine as I don't have to worry about stagnant air or oxygen levels. They're also small enough that the humidity doesn't take much of a hit, maybe one or two percent less than a tighter tub.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

do you drill holes in your egg box?

It would defeat the purpose

As for worrying about air exchange I never had an issue either, I only open my egg box every other day during the very last week of incubation, the rest of the time I do not touch them.

[Joe Massey]

wouldn't it kill the pipping babies? closing the lid with no air holes?

[PitOnTheProwl]

wouldn't it kill the pipping babies? closing the lid with no air holes?

You already have responses on how air tight some of our tubs actually are.
Short answer.... No

[Joe Massey]

Got it. thanks.. sorry for the noob question.

[PitOnTheProwl]

Not a noob question. Just thought that was already covered here.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

wouldn't it kill the pipping babies? closing the lid with no air holes?

Haven't killed any since 2008 and I hatched a few