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cornsnakes laid eggs...need instructions quick!

Pebbles

Pebbles

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last summer we got two corn snakes. we thought they had to be several years old to mate but the female started getting fat and wouldnt eat for a few weeks. today we took her out and tried to feed her again and she look so much thinner we thought omg something is wrong with her! but we looked into the cage and there are eggs in there! now we just dont know what to do! we are broke at the moment and dont have the money to go out and buy a bunch of stuff til we get paid next week. we do have an extra tank and heating pad.
help! do we leave the eggs in there or take them out and do something with them? :confused:
 
Plastic shoe box, nice damp spangnum moss and cover.. Put on the shelf and wait from 58 to 80 days... The other thing is destroying the unwanted eggs.. I am not trying to sound like a wiennie, but sometimes that is a useful solution too..

Umm, Amazon Reptiles in Montclaire might incubate them for a price ...

I live in San Berdoo County, just out in the High Desert.. If I was closer I would consider helping you with the care of the eggs for nothing...

Regards... Tim of T and J
 
Well, first of all, all eggs laid don't have to be hatched. If you are broke, it doesn't harm _anyone_ to not incubate the eggs. You would simply put them in the freezer for 24 hours and then dispose of them. No one would think any worse of you if you decide not to hatch the eggs.

Really, incubating the eggs is the simple part. You would just put them in a container with barely damp sphagnum moss over them and keep them at 85F, in a place in your house with pretty stable temps, and wait 60 days. But then you will need to be able to set up all those hatchlings in containers, maybe sandwich containers, and feed them, and then find homes for them.

Are you sure the eggs are fertile?

Feed your female a small meal, maybe a couple fuzzies or a hopper. After four or five days you can give her her normal feeding. She'll go blue very soon. Just feed her a little more often than you normally would, maybe every five to seven days, until she is back at her pre-lay weight.
 
Oy! Well I'm not gonna be much help to you, but if it helps, sounds like cornsnake eggs are pretty hardy? biggest thing is keeping them moist and warm... I know that you can make incubators from such things as those styrofoam coolers, the dollar store next to my house sells the little ones.

But I guess you know now that you have a boy and a girl :p should probably set up that tank to seperate them... I know it can be dangerous for females to be bred too young.

Hopefully someone else will chime in on the what to do with the eggs!
 
Well, first of all, all eggs laid don't have to be hatched. If you are broke, it doesn't harm _anyone_ to not incubate the eggs. You would simply put them in the freezer for 24 hours and then dispose of them. No one would think any worse of you if you decide not to hatch the eggs.
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I totally agree with you Nanci.. I know I would not think worse of a person doing the same in Pebbles position..
 
What he said! You can incubate them without any special equipment, just a plastic box (with or without holes...if you go without, you just have to lift the lid once in awhile) with some moss, not too damp, though. Soak it, then squeeze it until no more water comes out.

Or, put them in the freezer to destroy them before disposing of them if you are not prepared to care for that many babies (or find someone who can). Do you have a pic of the eggs? They might not be viable eggs.
 
pics

tried to put pics in here but didnt work so i uploaded them to my album. kinda hard to see cuz the background is the same color as the eggs! but best pics i could get right now
 
To me, those look like slugs (infertile eggs) or eggs that have been sitting out for a while. What color are they?
 
Also, don't know if you were keeping your snakes together but if you were... now would be a good time to keep them separate so this doesn't happen again. Not to mention prevent a plethora of other potential issues associated with cohabitation. Of course, this is all if you're keeping together. If not, sorry to rant for nothing lol.
 
yes we have been keeping them together. the guy at the reptile store said it would be fine. and we thought we had a few years before they would make eggs. we did talk about mating them and eventually wanting baby snakes just we are surprised and unprepared!
i guess its time to buy another enclosure! lol what are the "potential issues" other than eggs?
 
I have a 2008 who is ovulating and full of eggs right now. If she was with a male, she'd get bred for sure, and she's not even two years old yet! Barely 200g. I don't know why people at pet stores insist on telling everyone it won't be a problem...
 
oh ya and we got some moss and are putting them in a container on top of a heating pad just in case they are fertile. at least until we can call our reptile store monday. they are kind of an off white color i dunno if they are gonna make it or what but my husband wants to try. i posted another pic
 
Death of a young female, stress on both for competing for habitat
Shares diseases and or mites. That's just to start...

Look up cohabitating …..you should find a tread or two.
 
Yeah. You probably already did. I measured the temperature of my heating pad when I needed to see if I could use it to make yogurt. The lowest setting on mine stays at 105F. Perfect for yogurt, about 25 degrees too warm for cornsnake eggs. Heating pads vary, I'm sure, but all of them get warmer than human body temp. on their lowest setting--that's kind of the point.
 
by heating pad i meant the heating pad stuck to the bottom of our other enclosure the "undertank heater"
 
Given the condition of the eggs, I doubt they would survive anyways. The heat pad has probably finished them off. I think the kindest thing to do with this clutch is freeze them, dispose of them and chalk it up to a learning experience. JMO
 
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