MarlaChoodles
Not so new Member
This was my first year breeding Carpet Pythons. And both of my girls laid clutches. My 6ft jungle girl laid a beautiful clutch, and besides one going bad the first week they all hatched and I have 18 beautiful jungle babies. Yay.
Now, the problem is with my big 6ft coastal girl, she laid a very poor clutch. 12 slugs and only 6 good eggs. This Monday three of the six eggs hatched. These three babies are healthy and active. The other three did not, I gave them a little over 24 hours to pip on there own, then manually pipped them.
I gave them a few more days then snipped a section of the shell off to view the babies.
They are alive, and here it is Saturday and they still have not emerged.
They look like they may have some deformities :| as there chest area seems to be concave. They are still alive but just sitting there in the eggs.
I incubate at 88F, and I'm positive they did not get wet.
I have no idea what to do.
What could have caused this?
Has anyone else experienced this, and what did you do?
Should I remove them from the egg, Leave them, humanely euthanize them if they are deformed?
I hate that this happened, and will appreciate any help
Thank you.
Now, the problem is with my big 6ft coastal girl, she laid a very poor clutch. 12 slugs and only 6 good eggs. This Monday three of the six eggs hatched. These three babies are healthy and active. The other three did not, I gave them a little over 24 hours to pip on there own, then manually pipped them.
I gave them a few more days then snipped a section of the shell off to view the babies.
They are alive, and here it is Saturday and they still have not emerged.
They look like they may have some deformities :| as there chest area seems to be concave. They are still alive but just sitting there in the eggs.
I incubate at 88F, and I'm positive they did not get wet.
I have no idea what to do.
What could have caused this?
Has anyone else experienced this, and what did you do?
Should I remove them from the egg, Leave them, humanely euthanize them if they are deformed?
I hate that this happened, and will appreciate any help
Thank you.