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Help Required on breeding snakes

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Merlin

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hello everybody :)
can I just say I've been a member of this site now for ages and it never gets a boring site always informative and a good bunch of people and it has cirtainly changed in apreance.

anyway I'm from blackpool, England and have 5 snakes 2 adult corns (breeding pair) and 2 baby corns, and 1 rainbow boa all eat well shed well and love coming out for a strech. :crazy02:

for the past year my adult have produced eggs and a make shift incubator was made but alas to late the eggs went bad, :shrugs:
I have heard and read many joys of having these little babies hatch and reering them and want to do the same, so this year I'm shelling out for a hova bator incubator for the eggs,

I have read a few books but am still none the wiser and would deeply appreciate help from anyone using this perticular incubator.

I take it you can't just put the eggs in and wait they need to be kept wet too so would apreciate a step by step guide if thats not to much to ask of you guys and girls and I promise I'll keep you posted and if my eggs hatch will post pics too

many thanks :cheers:
 
Can't say what went wrong without more info...

First thing to do is to open the eggs when you are SURE they have gone bad so you can at least see if they are fertile (any blood spots, veins, or development?) You need to know that so you can tell if your problem is incubation, or the adults and their environment. You can also candle them just like bird eggs to determine fertility shortly after egg deposition.

Incubation is really quite easy. I don't even use an incubator. I just keep them in ventilated plastic shoeboxes in damp (but not wet) sphagnum moss / vermiculite on a shelf in my baby snake room, which is usually about 84F, give or take about 5F. I have a pretty detailed step by step explanation about the process in the Cornsnake Manual, if you can get a copy of it.

Hope you have better luck this season.
 
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