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Possible egg problem

hartsock

hartsock

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These are Saharan Sand Boa eggs. Sorry for posting this here, but I need people that know about eggs and most boa people are clueless, plus it will get me started to pair up my creamsicles for next year. I was beginning to think my saharan was egg bound because they just weren't coming. I got her after she was already gravid and she had gone through a show, pet store with no heat, a bite on her side from something, so I didn't know what to expect. She finally laid these on Wednesday and with everything, I just left her care for them this time. Next year (with her I have a 1.2 group) I use the incubator. I moved the moss and vermiculite to see the eggs tonight after I smell a bad smell when I lifted the nesting box lid. It looks like one deflated egg at the upper left hand side, there is on that is whitish that was covered by vermic that I couldn't easily brush away, then those three, possibly four purplish ones. She was getting agitated with me in the box (normally hides and is very docile) so I recovered everything and just left it alone. Any ideas of what the deal is here with the purple ones? Going bad? Normal? They normally hatch between 7 to 14 days. I had heard about eggs that turned yellow meant they were bad, but never heard about this.
 

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I've never seen Sand Boa eggs before, but my initial reaction is that you have some eggs with very thin shells. What you're seeing is the embryo/blood vessels developing.

If they start to sink or dimple then they could be going bad, but the shape still looks OK to me.

I'd say carrying on treating them as if they were normal eggs unless they really do collapse beyond hope.

Good luck!
 
Bitsy,
Thanks for the info. I hated to post about them here with it being cornsnake forum, but didn't know where else to turn. When I got my group of 1.2 (one already gravid) I expected them to be the same as Kenyan sand boas and just a difference in the name (same way with alot of red tail boas -- colombian, peruvian, etc.) They look almost identical. But Saharans are in a class of their own and it is giving me a little introduction to when I do breed my 1.1 creamsicles next year.

Any ideas what I should do with the collasped egg or with the whittish one? With the way they are stuck together, I don't think I can separate them to get it out of there, and since they should hatch by 2 weeks do you think it would hurt for them to remain in the clutch?
 
Your very lucky to own these animals :p So cool that they are one of the only species of boas to lay eggs.

I took this from the VPI website (one of the only US importers to have hatched eggs out) Due to the presence of these recently imported snakes in the US, we now have learned that this species (like E. jayakari) lays eggs. The eggs were laid very late in development and hatched within 14 days of being laid"

Looks like you could have sand boas quicker than you expected. I would incubate just in case... its only a few weeks to wait apparently.
 
Any ideas what I should do with the collasped egg or with the whittish one? With the way they are stuck together, I don't think I can separate them to get it out of there, and since they should hatch by 2 weeks do you think it would hurt for them to remain in the clutch?
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Again, just going on my experience of Corn eggs, but I keep all of mine until they collapse completely and have pretty much mouldered away to nothing.

If they're attached to good eggs and they won't come away easily, then I'd leave them where they are.
 
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