Again... This is the first time I've ever attempted to incubate... As my area of expertise is Southeastern Pit Vipers... and of course, their litters are "live birth"...
A little background of how I came about the eggs:
An acquaintance had recently captured a WC Red Rat and noticed it was "behaving oddly" for a Red... So I brought the snake home for a health-check and general observation... Come to find out... The said "behavior" was because she was gravid... She laid a clutch of 7 eggs that I found when I did a routine check-up on her... So I took the eggs and placed them in a vented tupperware container with a thin layer of aspen at the bottom and fine-ground coconut husk on top for moisture... I then placed the container on top of my refrigerator in the rear and covered with a dark bandanna (I would estimate the temp(s) ranged from 76'-80')... I would check on them periodically, and after maybe my second check... I found that 3 of the eggs had skunked... So I disposed of them, cleaned out the tub (careful not to "flip/rotate" the eggs much), and replaced them back on the fridge... It was roughly 65-68 days (give or take) before the first egg hatched... and it was/is as healthy as can be... Roughly 4-6 days later is when I noticed two more were hatching... So I let them make their way out (about half-way and then I assisted them)... That's when I noticed the first one that had the lower portion (mostly the reproductive area) on the outside of her body with a knot in it and had to dispatch her... Then I checked the second and noticed what you see above (the 4th and final/largest egg has yet to hatch).
Also I must mention that the aforementioned gravid female they came from later died from dystocia... She in fact had not fully formed/laid 3 more eggs at the time I found the first 7... I performed a necropsy on her, but the 3 eggs were unfortunately not viable.
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