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Are they slugs? No, they're actually fertile :)

Susielea

Susielea

Lily
Here is proof of why to incubate eggs even if you think they look like slugs :)

Some of you may remember when I posted my pippy thread, that at the end of it, I posted a picture of my female Ghost, as she just finished laying her 2nd clutch, which I thought were all slugs but I put them in the incubator anyway. She was not re-introduced to the male.

Well, I went to check on all the eggs in the incubator today, expecting to find Beauty's 2nd clutch mouldy and sunken. Well imagine my delight when 5 of them actually looked better than when I put them in there (although still not perfect). Out came the mini torch and low and behold 5 have got veins and little embryos are visible too :) They have been in the incubator for 13 days now, so I've still got a way to go with them, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they will make it, at least then she won't have laid them in vain.

I'm posting a pic of when she laid them and a couple of pics from today, one with flash, one without, hopefully you can see the difference. The bottom right one and the marble sized one are slugs ;)

Wish me luck! :)
PS, Beauty is bouncing back really well and gaining weight nicely :D
 

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I'm sorry I missed that picture posted in that thread. Those are eggs that I would have recommended putting in the incubator. They are "classic" starred eggs that do have a tendency to resemble slugs but for the starring. Congrats on sticking with them . . . they should hatch just fine.

D80
 
I'm rather sad that tiny one is infertile. That would have been the tiniest corn snake hatchling ever. But congrats on 5 good ones!
 
Drizzt80 said:
I'm sorry I missed that picture posted in that thread. Those are eggs that I would have recommended putting in the incubator. They are "classic" starred eggs that do have a tendency to resemble slugs but for the starring. Congrats on sticking with them . . . they should hatch just fine.

D80
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Ditto! I would not have considered them slugs at all.
 
Thanks for the encouragement :)

Part of the reason I posted was because someone I know said they had thrown a clutch of eggs away, as soon as they were laid, that looked exactly like the pics I posted, they even showed me a photo and yes they did look very much like mine. It took me a lot of explaining, to make her realise that not all yellowish eggs are slugs, because she'd been told that if they are not white and smooth then they are infertile :headbang: And she didn't even freeze them before throwing them in the rubbish, which I do even with multi coloured, sweaty, obviously infertile eggs, just incase :shrugs:

Thanks again all, I'll post again when they hatch ;)
 
I've actually hatched hundred of eggs that looked like that. Unless they are "deflated" or "soft" - sorry I can't describe it better than that - I would never think "slugs" when I saw those in the center.

Not the best looking eggs, but who cares as long as the hatchlings that come from them are healthy?
KJ
 
Hmmm... I'll have to try to get pics of the eggs my bloodred throws to show you how good yours look. Her eggs are starred with almost no solid color between the stars, but they have hatched fine each time (2 past clutches & this year's incubating)

Glad you didn't give up on them!
 
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