Quote Originally Posted by slartibartfast View Post
Correct me if I'm wrong, but maternal parasites aren't passed to eggs, right? So if the eggs were removed and incubated seperately, shouldn't the hatchlings come out clean?
Well, in VPI's book, they observed some ticks release and start moving down the mother as she was laying the eggs to wedge themselves onto the eggs. Perhaps to wait till the new snakes hatched and find new hosts.