That's the problem, your set up is too dry. I’m using the Hovabator and the other thought is that the heating element was too close to the eggs and cooked them a bit.ĭoes anyone here have some wisdom they can impart? We are hoping to breed the other pair this year. Once in the incubator the climate was favorable I think. Was it because they say the first week in the tub with their mother and dried out? They tubs humidity was very low. It seems the case was that the eggs dries out.

The other eggs had much less formed snakes Babies in them. It was well formed and nearly made it to full size but it seems it ran out of fluid inside before it became mature.

It was mostly white and had a small amount of flexibility in the shell. So today i cut them open and looked inside The one egg in the center of the others was in the best shape. They were supposed to hatch in the next week but I could tell they were not looking great and were really hard. I kept the incubator at 90* F and the humidity at 90-96% but the eggs got harder and harder. They were really dimpled and I figured it was because we didn’t get them into the very humid incubator soon enough. I noticed that the eggs weren’t full and round from the beginning. Initially we didn’t recognize that the eggs were in the snakes tub so we think we were about 5 days late in getting them out and into an incubator.

Just this past July one of our pairs had a successful clutch of 4 eggs. Well i thought, why not buy a couple other snakes off Morph Market to eventually breed with these snakes. We quickly realized that breeding their snakes wouldn’t make for very attractive offspring. Well we researched internet, books and reptile shops about how to breed the snakes. My two boys each got a snake for Christmas and they were male and female. I’m writing it because my sons and have had a catastrophic fail with our first clutch of ball python eggs.

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