Cooked eggs

[seann]

dudes and dudetts i think i cooked my eggs the temp went up to 40c , the eggs look fine but have lilwhite spould be becuse they are dry but eggs are round and white still. I am guessing if i did cook them tommorrow they will be rotten and smelly but has anyone else had their cornsnake eggs go that hi and made it through?

[Stockwell]

It will take several days for them to start to stink and look bad.
40C is way too hot. If it didn't kill them they could come out looking like pretzels
You should never try to heat up eggs by putting them near lights or on heat tape or UTH's...
Low temps are far safer than hot ones..
Its alswasy best to simply leave them on an unheated shelf in the herp room, if there is no proper incubator available.

[gonesnakee]

I would consider the clutch a complete loss. If anything hatches from it after being that hot they will most likely be malformed. Depending on how long they were at that temp they are probably all "soft poached" already. Sorryt about your luck, DOH!
Mark

[Corey Woods]

How long did they get upto 40C? If it was only a couple hours you should be fine.........if it was longer then you probably killed them.

Corey

[Scales Zoo]

We had sinaloan eggs get that hot, for over a day.

To our suprise, we got 100% hatchrate and all the babies were perfect.

Ryan

[seann]

Corey Woods and Scales Zoo dude yeah I have a huge feeling they will be fine the look perfect, hopefully i get 100% perfect eggs. thanks for the replys

[Vanan]

We had a spike (35C+) in our incubator. Probably about half a day. We lost pretty much 80% of the eggs. Those which came out were snake pretzels (as Roy mentioned). Upon opening up the other eggs, we found full-partial formed embryos. All dead. Hopefully you're as lucky as SCALES Zoo.

[Siretsap]

eggs of what?

[gonesnakee]

I hope I'm wrong & you have the same luck as others posted. Mark

[JeffT]

Oh man that sucks. Good luck with the eggs that would be horrible to loose them all.

[Vanan]

Corn, king and jungle corn eggs.