!!!WEW!!! My first eggs ever!

First clutches have to be the most enjoyable in the "Look what Santa left me!!!" way it leaves you feeling...Congrats and enjoy them....wait til they pip ...

Originally Posted by cka

First clutches have to be the most enjoyable in the "Look what Santa left me!!!" way it leaves you feeling...Congrats and enjoy them....wait til they pip ...

If I'd caught them pipping before going to work, I think I'd stay home and call in sick!!!!

i doubt id go to school when mine start to hatch, but there due 24th of june... during my exams, so it sucks, but maybe they will take longer. add another 2 weeks and i will be happy

I have a particular type of lay box set up that I really like, but you would be surprised at how simple you can be and still have perfect success. I was at Bill Gillingham’s house many years ago and he was showing me the very first Mandarin Rat Snake eggs ever laid in captivity. They were under a small piece of flat board where he had poured a little water on the pine shavings to dampen it.

I was kidding him about his fancy lay box set up and he looked at me like I was crazy. He ask me how I did it, and I explained, and he thought I was nuts to go to all that trouble, when a piece of wood or a plastic margarine tub lid laid over dam pine shavings works perfectly fine. His simple method was ever bit as successful as mine. They laid their eggs there each and every time. The only thing that he did a little different with the pine shavings is that he used about double the depth that I used.

congratulations, can't wait to see the babies when they hatch, the previous clutch looked fantastic

Well, the previous clutch of this couple was only the darker hatchlings on the pic, the lighter ones where fathered by my anery but with another mommy. But it does show the anery is het hypo... But you are right, they look very good!

Congrates on the eggs can't wait to see the little babies I just love corn snake babies they're so cute!
The mom and dad looks great I bet their babies will look just as beautiful.

Yesterday I suffered a minor panic attack cause the temp in the incubator had dropped to 25 degrees C (78 F) when I came home after work..... it looked like the thermostat was off, but it was still 78 degrees (measured with infrared thermometer). So I disconnected it from electricity, reconnected it and the 'on' indicator got on. So I put it back in the water in the incubator, and after a minute it bursted and smoked! So now I have a alternative setting with a heatmat and a tub with water, but this afternoon I'll have to buy me a new thermostat/heating device. Will cost me as much as this second hand incubator including the broken one costed me.... But the alternative set up keeps the eggs on 82 F today, so they'll be fine I think

fingers crossed, hope the eggs are ok. That must have been a shock

Originally Posted by diamondlil

fingers crossed, hope the eggs are ok. That must have been a shock

I suppose they dropping in temp went quite gradually, since THE manual says healthy eggs can stand 'extremes' quite good if not exposed to it very long (and 78 F is not really extreme I think), I'm not too worried.... should I? Other opinions?