04-08-2014, 05:59 AM
(04-05-2014, 02:21 PM)Catherine Wrote: Well done on the incubator. You are very handy when it comes to building things. If you run it a week you should have a sense of how well it is holding temperature and humidity. Most of the humidity comes from the damp peat moss that the eggs as sitting on and from the damp sphagnum moss on top of them. The lid on the egg boxes holds the moisture in. Reptile eggs are prone to molding and that is fatal to them. I always wash really well before I handle the snake eggs. Peat moss and sphagnum moss are good at inhibiting mold.
It would be great if Kate was pregnant. She probably likes her nest box just fine, but they don't feel the urge to nest until they are ready to lay eggs. Just before egg laying you might see the bulges of the eggs inside her.
Keep me posted.
So far the incubator is running too humid. I'm taking the lid off so it can dry out some. And I may be able to take the aquarium heater out and use the coil alone. For now I've turned it down as low as it can go. Before I turned it down it was running at 100% humidity and 100 degrees.
I just hope there are no eggs until I get the incubator under control. I have a few people who are very interested in any babies I get.
I have however been struggling with Kate and Claire's names. I keep calling Kate, Claire and Claire, Kate. I'm seriously thinking about swapping their names.
the SHTCT Het Blizzard, Tremper Albino, and eclipse could be good with either of my boys but I finally looked up what SHTCT stood for and it stands for Super hypo tangerine carrot tail and Jack is a carrot tail so I could get some carrot tails through their coupling. So they would still be Jack & Kate and Charlie & Claire
