help brown spots on eggs one leaking

[wally_allen]

my snakes laid a clutch of 10 back on june 9th maybe 8th I have a incubator that i made that works pretty damn good keeps very humid though so humid that i have to keep a towel over the eggs or water will drop off the lid onto the eggs well now the eggs r developing brown spots is this normal or do i have reason to be concerned what causes this it seems that there forming whereever the damp papertowel touches now one of the eggs is leaking from where a brown spot was i rigged up some wire to hold the paper towel off the eggs but over them still the incubator i'm using is 20 gallon tank 2 bricks and a tupperware container with 6 small holes put in it with the tip of a knife on the top of the egg box water filled up to the top of the bricks and a heater in it the temps r like 78 to 82 and the lid is wrapped in seran wrap i think whats happening the wanter is dropping off the seran wrap on to the lid of the egg box and into the holes

 

[Amanda E]

Just try to do whatever you can to reduce the humidity.

I'm not sure if I follow your post as to how your incubator is set up, but can you just remove the seran wrap, so the water evaporates rather than letting it drip into the egg box?

Removing the seran wrap it may cause the humidity to drop lower than you want, but it's easier to add more water if needed than to remove the water, IMO.

 

[wally_allen]

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the problem is if i take off the seran wrap the tep drops and basically i have a 20 gallon tank with 2 bricks in the bottom of it i fill it with water to the top of the bricks then put in the heater and the tupperware container on top of the bricks with vermiculite in it

 

[Amanda E]

How low does the temp drop? If it's still at least 80F it would be okay.

 

[wally_allen]

the seran wrap keeps the heat from excaping i have no heater in my room so it gets somewhat cold in my room and i can't put the incubator anywhere else every one else that live here have a major snake phobia so the incubator would get down to about 65 to 70 if i took off the seran wrap cus all there is is a screen

 

[gardenmum]

It sounds like you have too much moisture for sure. There is no need to have slits in your tuperware container, this is only allowing the outside moisture to seep in. I use a hovabator incubator and all my eggs are in seperate tuperware type containers with no holes. I do not use any moisture in the incubator itself. The moisture the eggs have is from the medium they are placed in. So far 5 clutches have hatched with 100% hatch rate of all viable eggs. The only ones that didn't hatch were the ones that went bad early on that I was unsure if the questionable ones on being good or not, and of course I found they were not. You do not even have to let air into the container once you have them set up. If you removed all holes from your container, it would eliminate a lot of the extra moisture getting in. The only thing I don't know is if the high moisture content outside and around the container will cause condensation inside of the container itself and you would still end up in the same boat. Maybe you should try somehow to rig up your set up so that there is much less moist heat in it. This is only a thought as I have never tried hatching eggs in such a moist incubator.

Hope you can figure it out and it works well for you because very excessive moisture will eventually ruin some or all of the eggs.

I wish you the best and hope you get a lot of nice hatchlings.