Second clutches

[paulc]

Yay only days away from the start of hatching, well it must be as I am now starting to get second clutches being layed. Had two of my females have there second clutch of the season this week. The first had 13, 3 of which were infertile but not bad as i dont put the male in any more after the first breeding season. The next had 11, all good eggs.

With the first of these clutches I thought I would incubate the way i used to do many years ago, just to show peeps that there are more than one way to incubate corn snake eggs.

[chillicorn]

wow...a measuring cup and pantihose, right? is that how the eggs are kept all the time? how's it working for u?
jenna

[paulc]

Its been 3 days now and every thing looks good.
Yup as you say measuring cup and we call them tights but yup

[kitty]

Congrats on the second clutches.

But I need details, man, details! ... I assume you keep your measuring cup setup inside another container so hatchlings don't get away. Do you incubate at room temperature? If not, how do you maintain the necessary temps for the "measuring cup kids"?

[paulc]

Sorry
The lid is put on the top, to keep humidity in (thus when hatching babies dont excape also).
The tub is then put into an incubabtor, on a spear heatmat (with thermostat) or in a spear viv.

[paulc]

thought i had better say measureing jug WITH a lid, the tub above happens to be a icecream tub.

[paulc]

took a piccie in the incubator

[bribrian]

Congrats on the second clutches & thanks for the cool idea.......

[Rosier]

Congrats Paul! interesting set-up, never seen it before. Thanks for sharing and good luck hatching them!

[paulc]

no probs mate