Carol, yes I have been wracking my brain for near two weeks because the first clutch went bad.
I was using my Hovabator to incubate chicken eggs for the longest time, so I was room incubating the first couple clutches of snake eggs in the snake room. No big deal. Usually..
But we had some weird weather and the space heater in the room spiked the temp up to 91-92 for goodness knows how long before I discovered it and unplugged it.
When the eggs of the first clutch started to one by one develop sweat beads, then mold, then dimple..and it seemed to spread. I even cleaned the suriving eggs off and put them in brand new clean vermic hoping that maybe it'd stop it.
The last few eggs still looked good for another week, but it was too late. I pipped the eggs on Day 76 to peek inside, and poked the hatchling and no movement whatsoever...I opened it the rest of the way up to a fully formed hatchling with what looks like a day's worth of yolk to absorb. All beautiful little guys.
Some had domed heads and some were pretty twisted when I removed them from the shell. I don't know if that's from sitting in the egg with rigor mortis and partially decaying, or if it was genetic. The first clutch was a father x daughter pairing. So that may be what went wrong with the entire clutch, hopefully its that and not the heat spikes which could spell doom for the snow clutch and others. Regardless that pairing will never be made again.
So yes, I've been sitting here antsy that genetics was the cause of the first clutch's downfall and not the heat. So I've been praying these little snows hatch and come out healthy, as well as the Ghost Mot clutch due this weekend.
Thankfully the Bloodred and Okeetee clutches were put in a constant temp'ed incubator a day or two after being laid, so lets hope there's no stress with them.
I'll bet you sang to them, huh? 
