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Sunken in eggs

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Katschakai

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My eggs who was laid the fifth of August and had grown really well has now gotten all sunken in. I had the eggs in a icecreamcontainer in a empty terrarium with a heating mat under it. I had saranwrap (sp?) over the icecream container. It has been around 29-30 degrees celsius but it has been around 27-28 for a day or two. The icecreamcontainer ones flipt over to the side wich turned the eggs around a bit but I but them back like they were (not upside down, I checked) and now...all sunken in. One even has mold on it. Two eggs are still completly round and smooth and a third one is just a bit sunken in but some of them looks really bad, almost flat. What should I do?! I want atleast some of them to survive but they are sticking togheter so I can't just throw the bad eggs away, and I don't even know which ones are bad! Sorry if I make no sense but I feel so sad and if they don't make it it'll be my fault cause I was the reason they was tipped over.
 
They eggs sound like they don't have enough humidity. Are the eggs in some sort of substrate like vermiculite or moss, or are they just in an empty bucket?

If you aren't using substrate, that's your main problem. The eggs should be partially buried in slightly moist substrate. This will keep the eggs hydrated.

The egg that is moldy may still be okay. I've seen some pretty nasty looking eggs hatch some perfectly healthy babies. However, the ones that you described as "almost flat" are most likely dead.

Whether they are okay or not from the container tipping depends on how much the eggs moved. You really just have to wait another month to see if any of them make it.

Also, my preference would be to keep the temp at 28C/82F rather than any higher, because if they get too hot (higher than 85F), you might end up with kinked hatchlings. Also, I'm not sure if I would use a heating pad under the eggs, but if that's all you can rig up, then you'll have to make due with it. Just make sure the eggs are not sitting right on the heating pad or you could cook them. Where are you measuring the temps of the eggs? Right in the same area as the eggs, or somewhere else? I personally use two thermometers: one just sitting in the incubator to just measure air temps, and one buried in the substrate the eggs are in to measure substrate temps.

Another thing I should mention is that usually when eggs are close to hatching they will sink in a little. So if you rehydrate your eggs and they make it another month, but then you see them sink in again, don't worry about it too much then, because that means they should hatch soon.
 
I have them in vermiculite but after that I have taken off the saranwrap so the humidity might have "slipt out" in lack of better words" I squirted some water in the container before (not directly on the eggs) and I will check up on them again tomorrow.
The ones that are flat, will they have to bet cut off or can they stick to the other eggs without hurting them? I'm afraid that if I cut them off that I will hurt the other eggs.
I have the container on a rock so that the rock is just under one side so that the container is tipped (the snake guy in my pet shop told me to do that so that the water dident drip onto the eggs) but the rock might be kinda hot. Maybe I should move them away from the heating pad. What is kinked hatchlings?
Thanks so much for the answers so far. I don't go to this forum much anymore but I always consult prevoius answers if I bump in to any snake problems
 
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