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How much of the egg does it take up?

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Just one more
When candling an egg that is close to hatching, how much of the eggs does the snake take up? I'm a little past 60 days on the first clutch and the babies look like they are only taking up about 1/4 of the egg? Just curious if anyone has a pic of a candled egg just before hatching.
Thanks
 
My eggs are around 7 weeks, and they take up about a third. I've been wondering about this too, but I'll continue candling them right until they hatch.
 
In my experience ( which isn't much compared to most of the people on this board) I have found candling to be very deceiving. You look and see what appears to be a three or four inch snake curled up at the bottom of the egg and POW, two days later they hatch and are eight or nine inches. I mostly just candle to see if there are veins.
 
When I was candling my eggs, I was really wondering about it, too. I thought it might be close to hatching time, I even thought the shells felt like htey were thinning, but it didn't look like the babies were taking up much space at all. Then they hatched...and I guarantee you those little worms were much bigger and taking up much more of the space than I would have guessed from candling. So unless they grow a whole lot in the last 48 hours... I just really couldn't tell how big they were from candling. I expect between the curvature of the shell and the liquid inside, the light bounces around and distorts things.
 
Shell thinning is the key to detecting hatching! You just rub one finger gently along the shell (wash and dry your hands first!!) and instead of feeling firm and resilient and leathery, it will feel soft and flexible and "thin." Even if you don't know what to expect, if you start feeling the eggs now, you will pick up the difference when they thin.
 
Nanci said:
Shell thinning is the key to detecting hatching! You just rub one finger gently along the shell (wash and dry your hands first!!) and instead of feeling firm and resilient and leathery, it will feel soft and flexible and "thin." Even if you don't know what to expect, if you start feeling the eggs now, you will pick up the difference when they thin.
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Yup! Worked for me! Except since I was expecting thinning AND denting, and the thinning was a pretty subtle feel, I wasn't sure that I wasn't just imagining it. Then I had pippies!
 
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well I did notice the thinning after you said to check that but here is a candle pic and at day 62 ..... I have PIPS!!!! so excited
 
Mine took about 24 hours from when I saw the first pip until the first one was out.... and it was a really really LONG 24 hours.
 
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