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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Moppet[/i] [br]I've just checked on my eggs, like I do 1-2 times a week. I candle them every week or so too just to make sure everything is okay. I know that two of the 13 eggs are not good. They had no veins from day 7 onwards, one of them hard a dark circle near the top when candled, a sign of a dying or dead egg in most species. Most of the eggs look normal, a little stained in places from the sphagnum moss but healthy enough. However one of the not good eggs (these two are both stuck firmly into the clump, in the middle, typical) is covered in a blackish blue mould. It is all over the top of this egg but none of the other eggs have any on at all. From the research I have done, including the Kathy Love book it said that good eggs generally don't turn bad because of having a bad one nearby. My question is, those of you who breed snakes (of any kind that lay eggs), do you leave eggs such as this one? Or do you try to remove them? I read somewhere about cutting them away with scissors but I don't want to risk damaging the other eggs if it isn't necessary. I could put a picture up if that helps? The eggs are on Day 33 of incubation. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.