We're about two weeks into incubation,
and there is one egg that has a fair amount of mold that just developed,
and another egg that has the beginnings of mold right here.
But, both of them are still showing very healthy veins throughout. I'll show you here.
Or we'll show you?
See they're very red, very good veins on both of them,
so there's really no point in throwing them out because they could still hatch.
I mean, there's still a really good chance of them hatching, so we are going to separate this one with mold
into its own container to prevent that from spreading to the other eggs, and we are going to put on some lotrimin powder.
Now, this is for anti fungal remedies in humans, but it works really well for
funguses and eggs too.
Take off this mold that's developed on it.
Here we go. I kinda rub it onto the egg,
and this should prevent more from growing, but we are still going to separate it just in case,
and just to be safe, we will put this other one in there too, that had
the start of some mold right here, and we'll treat it too.
There,
now these will be separated from everyone else.
Now our bottom tray is the one with perlite, and on the plus side
all of these eggs look great,
so I'm starting to really like perlite because
we haven't had any problems with any of these eggs, and
where was...I still don't know which one this sluggy one was but apparently it wasn't sluggy. Here's egg number 25 looking great.
Yeah, look at that! That was a nice surprise egg too.
We are going to add a little bit of water to these eggs, and when you're adding water make sure you don't dump it
right on the egg of course. Add it to the corners of the tray or in between the eggs.
Now a nice thing about perlite is that you can actually have
a small layer of water at the bottom, and that won't even touch the eggs, whereas the vermiculite seems to
absorb it and spread the moisture throughout. It doesn't just sit on the bottom, so I'm starting to like perlite so far.
We'll set their lid back on,
and throw them back in for a couple more weeks.
If you have a window develop in the shell of your egg, which is just a see-through hole
and you can see right through the shell you want to apply a combination of lotrimin powder and
school glue, the non-toxic kind of course, and this will prevent the hole from spreading.
It will prevent fungus from growing and the glue will help strengthen the shell of the egg.
It is a day after we checked in on our bull snake eggs,
and it's perfect timing that we got a clutch of hognose snake eggs
with a hole or a window in one of them, and it's really neat: you can see the veins
through the window here, so it is a fertile egg, but we are going to patch it up with the
glue and the lotrimin powder that I was just mentioning.
It's about two weeks after I applied the elmer's glue and lotrimin powder to the window on this little hognose
snake egg, and you can't even tell that it used to have a window. It looks perfect now, and it's developing quite nicely, so
hopefully if you ever have a window in one of your eggs, you should be able to patch it up
just like we did here. There also haven't been any recurring mold issues with these bull snake eggs,
so the lotrimin trick seem to have worked perfectly.
And while we're looking at bullsnake eggs,
we'll give you an update on these egg-eating snake eggs as well because I know a few of you are interested in these, I'll get the lights --
they are all developing very well so far. I'm super excited about these eggs,
when we see veins in all of them. There is one egg that was separated from the rest
That was kind of collapsed to begin with and that one did not make it, but these other six look great.
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