The great incubator crisis!

[Catherine]

The big eggs were pine snake eggs and they are 7 foot long snakes. Corn snakes are 3-5 feet long and they have tiny eggs.
At 7 feet long pine snakes are still not that big. They are quite slender. Now that I think of it, the eggs are pretty big for the size of the snake.

Your dad was right about problems and solutions. We wanted to have a sophisticated thermostat system to regulate heat. Instead we put together a basic heat source regulated by a simple thermostat. The heat rises from the pot of water and  keeps the incubator warm.  It should do the job just fine. The eggs will all hatch when their time comes and we will laugh about how funny our incubator is.

It does take patience to hatch reptile eggs, They take months and they must be kept quiet and unmoved while the baby develops. That is why the moms leave them. The eggs are safer without her. She might disturb the eggs or at very least she would contaminate them.

We just take little peaks now and then to make sure they are okay. Dead eggs have to be removed because they can kill the living ones.

By the end of June the first eggs should start hatching.