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Slug question...

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divapixie

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OK.. so Isis quite unexpectedly laid a clutch today... her second with only one introduction to my male... and 5 of the eggs are obvious slugs. No biggie... but the rest look fertile but fel REALLY kind of mooshy... not wet and sticky or as deflated as the slugs but they did concave a bit when I pull them out of the lay box. Does this mean they are all slugs? The following pictures are of the obvious slugs and then a picture of Isis curled around the clutch with the "fertile" eggs on top.
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Isisdoubleclutch002.jpg
 
Those look like wonderful eggs! There is that one near the bottom of the clutch in that pic that looks a bit yellow, but that's O.K. Congrats! Did you, or do you plan on candling the eggs? Candle a few of those in the clutch and if you see veins, buy yourself a some ice cream or a steak dinner!
 
You won't see any veins on any of those freshly laid eggs just yet. Incubate them all for a couple of weeks and you will soon know. The slugs will go bad, and the fertile eggs will get bigger, and you *should* be able to see veins when candled.
 
Agreed...those look like fertile eggs. And I would also like to mention (simply because I talked with someone just a couple of days ago that didn't know this) that snakes (reptiles in general) lay eggs that have a soft shell, not a hard one like birds. Sometimes we tend to forget that what we consider to be the simplest bit of "common knowledge" may be completely alien to someone else.
 
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