Today SUCKS!!!!!!!!

[Nette]

I have posted this on a few forums and emails so hopefully some one can shed some light before my other clutches drop ....

Well no Wamena Type babies for me ....I am so upset ....So here it goes ...I have 14 eggs laid on July 5 of this yr ... Females 1st breeding yr ...woo hoo...I put them in my incubator with my Aur Type eggs that were laid July 1....The incubator is a insulated wood chest with heat tape running along the bottom ...there is a shelf about 3 inches above the heat tape ....there is a container with water , egg crate and air holes ....then the eggs are in a gallon ice cream container on Vermiculite with egg crate to set the eggs on... with air holes around the top with a lid and temp probe ...set inside the other container with the water .....Then a lid on that set on the shelf inside the chest.... the temps were 86 F for the 1st week then 88F for the next 4 weeks and now back at 86F for the remaining week .....I checked the eggs at the end of last week and everything looked good ..I checked today and the whole clutch is bad ...eggs are getting clear looking and bad smell ..I cut open one egg and there was an under developed baby ( of coarse ) just starting to get pattern but no color .....But all my Aru Type eggs look good ....So I am at a loss .........

If it was my incubator wouldnt all of my eggs be bad ? Is there a chance that Wamena eggs need to be incubated differently then Aru eggs ? Should I be re-thinking my incubation ( it worked fine last yr with Aru eggs ) ? Please if anyone could shed some light for me I would be so happy as I am at a total loss as to what could have happened .......

[HanneysCorns]

Oh Annette, I'm so sorry this has happened. I know you were looking forward to these babies with excitement.

I can't help you with the incubation...I know nothing about anything snakey unless it's corns, but gosh darn, it just isn't fair. I have had the same thing happen with corn eggs tho. One week they are fine and the next, completely bad...all other clutches in the same incubator go on to hatch. I've never been able to figure it out!

I just stand at the bottom of the stairs to my snakeroom and scream real loud. It doesn't do anything for the eggs, but it sure helps relieve the anger/frustration that I feel at the moment.

I know it's the old cliche and doesn't help much with the situation but...there's always next year...

Ruth

[EeekSnakes]

How frustrating Annette.

I can't really offer any advice because like Ruth, I don't know the species.

But I do know the feeling, very well

Bottom line: this sucks Sorry for your frustration.

[MohrSnakes]

Was there enough air?

[Nette]

I would think so ..a fan in the chest ...holes in the water tub and holes in the egg tub

[MohrSnakes]

Just wondering as that 'bad smell' I've observed before in clutch of eggs that got the wrong lid....one without holes!

[SnakeCreations]

Hi Annette,

I too will add that I'm terribly sorry. It's difficult to understand... I've had the same issues with one clutch going bad and the other (sitting right next to it) go on to 100% hatch.

(huggs)

Tonya

[Nette]

Thanks everyone ....I am getting some good feed back from the Green Tree guys ........Crossing fingers for my Aru clutch