Egg problems (updated)
Friday, June 18, 2004 at 10:25 AM | Herp Collection, Reptiles and Amphibians | 3

It has turned out that the one baby hatched so far from Pretzel’s clutch will be the only one from that clutch. No other eggs hatched, so Jen pipped the ones that were supposedly viable yesterday. Fully formed snakes, but definitely dead — and with enough yolk remaining in the egg that it cannot have been recently. Which means that pipping them earlier wouldn’t have made a difference.

Meanwhile, Lilith (female black pine snake) is looking positively pendulous. She’s past due and I hope she lays them very soon. A trip to the vet for a dose of vasotocin would be expensive. Since Lucifer (mate) was occupying the nesting box all the time, we’ve temporarily removed him from the cage. Crossing fingers.

Also, Florence reports that Little Guy (female anerythristic motley corn snake) is also hugely gravid, past due and not dropping eggs yet. Can we get vasotocin in bulk?

[Edit: Updates in the comments.]

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Jonathan Crowe, June 18 at 4:49 PM:

Lilith has laid at least three eggs today. Final count when we put them into the incubator.

Jonathan Crowe, June 18 at 5:25 PM:

Three eggs, but one does not look viable at all. The remaining two are big, heavy, white and healthy looking. I expect them to hatch by the end of the second week in August or thereabouts.

Meanwhile, the single corn snake baby had its first shed today.

Jonathan Crowe, June 23 at 10:22 AM:

Little Guy laid her eggs some time before yesterday; this is surprising because she was going blue again. Now in the incubator, but we haven’t done a count.

The single corn snake baby ate its first meal without serious trouble on Monday night.