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small eggs

Janome

Janome

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my normal color corn with ziz zag pattering laid a clutch of 20? or so eggs but the eggs look on the small side. Wondering how small eggs can be and still hatch. This is not her first clutch. She double clutched couple years ago. couple of the eggs do look yellowish but most are whitish. I just have them in a container with damp moss setting on the top shelf of my closet. wanted to try that vs an incubator.
 
eggs swell with time by absorbing moisture.
my friends corn had a 2nd clutch and the 1st eggs that were incubating for 40-50days were really big compared to the new clutch.
 
Yes the eggs are fertile. I had her in with my male ghost. They hooked up for a good 20 minutes an left the yellowish goo stuff behind when they parted. Eggs still look good...there is one or two on the iffy side. The eggs are on the bigger side of grape size. I'm assuming the babies will be tiny if they hatch? will babies that small eat pinkies?
 
If the babies are really tiny, you can cut a F/T small pink in half *lengthwise*. Mine have eaten such readily, and the pinks compress easily when they are cut in that direction.
 
Shiari said:
If the babies are really tiny, you can cut a F/T small pink in half *lengthwise*. Mine have eaten such readily, and the pinks compress easily when they are cut in that direction.
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This is what we did for our babies that hatched at 50 days, I think they were slightly early and they only weighed between 4 and 5 grams. They ate small pinkys weighing around 1-2g but cut lengthwise like Shiari said. Our eggs were also very small and round looking.
 
We had a 2.5 gram snake that hatched out of about a marble size egg. Her name is Mongo. And she caught up to her brothers and sister really fast. We fed her day old pinkies( we raise our own mice so we had that advantage). But like everyone said eggs tend to plump up through the incubation process, just make sure there is good humidity :)

Buzz
 
So my eggs are denting. I'm hoping after 12ish weeks they will be hatching. :) Couple eggs I was concerned about I don't think are good but they are still in with the others.
 
Eggs are hatching!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited. :) I see at least 5 little heads poking out. They will probable look like Mom since all her last eggs that have hatched in the past looked like her. That's ok to me though.
 
Ended up with 16 babies! Had 21 eggs. 3 went moldy. 2 had dead babies in them. Most have shed so now comes the fun part of getting them to eat. There is one with a bump on his back so probably keep that one. Another one has neat pattern. Our computer died at home so I can't post any pics right now. :( Bummer.
 
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