Thank you so much!
This morning I was so pleasantly surprised. Look at these goofballsLove them! Especially the backwards baby XD
https://ibb.co/FhCnhWK
(Sorry for bad quality box is e under a desk and I can not use flash)
I am now waiting for just one more egg to pip. The one close right corner. I even might cut that one tomorrow because it will be day 65 tomorrow.
So it looks like we will have a total of 4 pastels, 2 super pastels, 2 normal and a mysteryIt goes along that they are a result of breeding pastel f x pastel m so this should not be parthenogenesis. Which is even better because babies should be healthy.
Hope the last baby is alive and it will be 100% hatch rate.
So if anyone is interested how I made this incubator. I used one plastic box , tote type, but transparent. It was small, just enough to house the eggs with about 7 cm space around them. I found some vermiculite as a substrate, but I also put sphagnum moss around them to tuck them in. I did this because eggs ware given to me in a bunch, already glued tight, so some were "levitating" off the substrate. I made everything damp. One hole was drilled (small hole 5mm in diameter) at the front side and one at the back side of the box. I drilled one hole at the lid of the box and put in the thermometer probe trough it. I pushed the probe in the substrate half way - not all the way to the bottom. I taped the hole around thermometer probe so it can not move. I put a heat pad underneath the box and connected it with the thermometer. I set the thermometer to 31'C and it was oscillating between 30-32'C during the whole incubation.
The issues I had is that on day 45 eggs began to look dimpled, as if they were dehydrated even thou there was a lot of condensation inside the box. I don't know why, and more moisture to the substrate did not help a lot.
Also one big problem with this is that, when a snake hatches out, it can move the thermometer probe out of the substrate which will cause overheating. In my case I did not have a spare thermometer to make a separate bin for the hatched babies, so I had to wait for the guy that will take them to come. So I ended up sleeping on the floor, next to the incubator, and checking it constantly during day and night. Thinking about this it could be remedied by putting a cut out pvc pipe ring around the probe or something similar to block the snakes getting to the probe. But in my case I can't risk going out shopping for a pipe jut to come back to cooked babies, so I will have some more sleepless nightsThe probe could also be taped to the side half way in the substrate but in this stage I will have to leave the box open for too long and babies will cool down. I don't want to risk it.
So anyway. I think this is it. If I get, I will send one pic at the end of all babies out![]()