How to Care for Incubating Snake Eggs

[@laurenchadwatkins5881]

I just have to say I absolutely love the format you use for your videos - no loud intros, no fluff, just talking snakes and showing us what we need to know. Thanks for all you do Chris!

[@jrf79]

CHRIS, I HAVE SEEN SOME PEOPLE JUST USE WATER WITH THE GRATE ON TOP....AS LONG AS THE EGGS DONT GET WET, AND THEY DO FINE

[@markhutchins3643]

With perlite I add water till the water level is halfway up the perlite and completely seal the top with press and seal, put in incubator and forget till day 55. Never had an issue

[@markhutchins3643]

I have a clutch in the oven now. Wish I could post a photo

[@vanherps1]

I’ve given up on perlite and vermiculite. The last 4 or 5 seasons I’ve gone to having two levels of light diffusers and filling tap water up to top of first light diffuser. I have no holes in tubs and I make sure the press and seal is tight, because if it dips then the water has a spot to drip. I take off the press and seal the last week because they’re building enough heat to produce enough humidity. Have had great success so far. Good luck with your season

[@finngenuity8076]

Hey Chris! Serendipity SandS here... little update... Honey and Cobra are doing just fine! eating fuzzyies and thriving... 🙂

[@joshuasantiago7781]

I had mold on 2 eggs last yr because the water dripped off the press seal onto the eggs, I got rid of the press seal and kept a eye on the hunidy level. Both eggs went full term

[@markhutchins3643]

If your gonna leave an opening in your egg boxes, then add an open bucket or tub of water in the incubator and it will stop the condensation

[@lukecairns2085]

If your using perlite I do at least 1:2 so like 150gs perlite 300gs water at least and completely cover with press and seal till they pip then leave a corner open

[@tinareaves958]

Wow wow alot of eggs. I hope they all make it. Ty for sharing, can't wait for egg cutting💪🙏🙏😍

[@McVeigh3242]

How funny, I just got my Very first clutch on the 4th and you made this video haha, she was a WC African female who was full of eggs. Glad to see more snake videos again. Have a great week.

[@camoconstrictors6374]

Congratulations on all the eggs. for information if your eggs aren't going directly on the substrate you can load it with water and you'll never have that problem. You only have to measure it if your eggs are going directly on the substrate. Is awesome video keep it up

[@RNRacres]

What type of water do you use to mix with the vermiculite? I think using regular tap water helps prevent mold because of the chlorine in it.

[@Personalinfo404]

awesome info! better than digging through forums.

[@jrf79]

HEY CHRIS, WHY NO RECENT POSTS?? GREAT VIDS AND I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM YOU.....

[@ssaccoccie]

I bought vermiculite online from Josh's Frogs.

[@nicktaylor9110]

Eggs looking good. With the variants on height in your incubator I just wonder if you have enough fans to circulate the air. I worked at a hatchery and the amount of fans was ridiculous I thought but we had on average a 94 percent hatch rate

[@pumpkinchow]

He should make a incubator like mine I’ve always had 100% hatch rate and it holds 100% humidity and temp is always spot on. I’ve hatched monitor eggs python eggs and some skink eggs and gecko eggs no problem. I don’t even use hatching substrate like vermiculite or anything anymore so it saves money. Check it out some time I did a video on it and probably do another more in depth one. I’ve been breeding reptiles for over 30 years now and I wouldn’t use any other incubator but my own. Hope you have a great day

[@armands774]

Your super informative and I love your videos.

[@pumpkinchow]

Nice 👍 I have eggs in my incubator now as well and can’t wait to see them hatching. I also built my own incubator and it works like a champ I’ve hatched monitor eggs and ball python eggs full term with no problems and 100% hatch rate and holds 100% humidity and temp like a pro so I don’t even need vermiculite or any hatching substrate so it saves me money as well.

[@kaylamuniz1424]

how did you build your own incubator?

[@pumpkinchow]

@@kaylamuniz1424 I have a video of it on here

[@dazedghost3189]

Generally with perlite I just add water don't measure as long as the eggs don't get wet

[@pascarafajar1068]

nice informartion about care eggs.. thankyou 🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@thinriches]

There's a video game KZbinr I watch who puts a skateboarding video at the end of his game tip videos. I feel like you could do something similar with all the content you produce. Maybe a litl 10 second best of clip from some of your footage for the other channels! Nice to see you ended up getting into super dwarfs after all! Can't wait to see the babies

[@paradoxb3]

Chris, it sounds to me like you need to get some more vermiculite ASAP! Looking at your local area, the Home Depot's in Golden and Colorado Springs both show "limited stock" available. (Evergreen is out.) I recently found some in a nearby town where I live and their gardening department had it palletized and stored in overhead and had to get it down with a forklift for me because it wasn't in season. Just because you can't find it on the shelf doesn't mean they don't have it!

[@MotherTruckinReptiles]

If the egg is already stanky, you should pull them out. I also candle them again at 3 weeks to check on progress. Good and bad eggs are completely obvious when you do.

[@markhutchins3643]

Foot fungus powder for those moldy eggs. Tenacton I think it’s called. Works great to stop the mold.

[@BlvckReptile]

Boom! Tuff actin tenactin. RIP John Madden

[@robertbailey4454]

@@BlvckReptile heh heh see its like football, but for feet! Hey he's got mud on his jersey!

[@brianlamontagne4971]

Do you just sprinkled on top of the eggs?

[@markhutchins3643]

@@brianlamontagne4971 yup. Completely cover mold with the powder

[@brianlamontagne4971]

@@markhutchins3643 if they smell are they bad?

[@adamwoolf3213]

Put jock itch powder it should kill the mold men's jock itch powder it should prevent any more mold from spreading

[@100camotommy]

Great 411. I set the boxes up very similar. I do notice the boxes sweat on the inside. Can they sweat throughout the gestation period so long as the eggs have no direct contact with that moisture?

[@babyjixbengil7052]

where is the holes of your bins?

[@pythonpatrolexotics]

This is my first year and this same thing happened to me, I was surprised but how much water it took to actually get the subrate remoisturuzed

[@pamelabates3861]

Emily from Snake Discovery uses Lotrimin powder

[@Vanishedomgomg]

Great video thank you for sharing? Will you be doing a live-stream again soon? And could you show the set up you use to heat up frozen/thawed rats and mice? I usually use water to heat up my f/t but I have a few snakes whom won't take it if they're wet and they only eat it if they're dry. I haven't gotten a good method down though with heating it up from a heat lamp. Thank you!

[@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures]

Yes, soon!

[@TJHutchExotics]

I know there are a small amount of mold spores in pretty much all types of air. I wonder if eliminating all sources of air circulation 15-30 min before putting eggs in the incubator would help. Also, do you sanitize your hands prior to handling eggs? Ps- expecting first 2 clutches amd my worst fear is mold

[@daviddibble958]

You dont keep hygrometers in your egg box??

[@djpythons1252]

Hi Chris great clutch but the mold not good trust me you need two little pin pricks each side of egg box is help with the mold and air flow to the eggs 🥚🥚🥚🥚just two pin holes each side will help your mold problem and if you put pin holes near to the top each side will help water dripping on your eggs so cus of pin air holes you won't need press seal m8 try it will help sorry for s,a blessing ⚡💥🔥💧💦💯💜🇬🇧👑 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚

[@BANANAMONKE-E]

I'm getting a juvenile IMG boa soon and planning on breeding it with another or a het IMG boa soon so this really helped I'm just worried on how much eggs there gonna have also its gonna be my first snake ALSO I do not have a incubator what do I do when I decide to pair them??

[@Iknowright8918]

Boas have live birth....no eggs to incubate

[@kingoftheclutch8140]

You gotta do some more research plz before you think about breeding boas.

[@BANANAMONKE-E]

@@kingoftheclutch8140 I know thats why I'm going to learn and try my best thought I learned they are livebearers I can prepare myself and I might do it after I get two boas I will do more research before breeding boas

[@thaanos7144]

Do you reptile breeders pay taxes ?

[@ChrisHardwickanimaladventures]

Yes.

[@shawnmaver797]

Everyone pays taxes. Uncle Sam doesn't cut anyone a break especially the last 20 years

[@pumpkinchow]

It used to be that if you made less than 10,000$ in 365 days you didn’t have to claim it. Now Biden came in and now anything over 600$ in 365days you have to pay taxes on. If you make money they want their cut of it for there protection and last time I checked that was called extortion🤷‍♂️

[@trevorbraden5448]

@pumpkin&chow Yeah man...... He did that speech where he whispered, Pay your fair share......😀 ....Let's Go Brandon.......