3 out of 5 being supers with the 3 albinos… you hit really good odds. Now you just need to mix that albino in with your tiger pied 
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Jolliff tiger albino pieds are such a good combination of those morphs.
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Thank you and I Agree! My Tiger Pied is 66% Het Albino. So that’s a possible cherry on top. So many projects, so little time. Lol
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Oh that’s really nice! That can cut you some time on projects if your tiger pied proves to be het albino. Definitely keep us in the loop once you pair those.
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No idea what a jollif tiger is haha I though I was in the wrong snake chat
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Here is a thread about Joliffs Tiger with a few combo pictures and a discussion about the name.
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First “Pro” photo of one of the hatchlings! Number 4 who is the only one who has been successfully sexed so far. 1.0 Super Jolliff Tiger Albino.
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Question about what to do at the ~48 day mark. We are at day 50. I have our little unexpected eggs in a cooler incubator so there’s no air circulation. Should I add in a computer fan to circulate air and put holes in the bin? Here’s what everything looks like for reference. OMG I opened the incubator to take a photo and 2 of the eggs have a bit of mold growing on them and now I’m freaking out! I have been checking on them quickly once or twice a week so I didn’t cause any crazy temperature or humidity drops and I had peeked 2 days ago and added a bit of foot powder to 1 egg that was showing some discoloration and now that one looks worse and another one is looking bad! What do I do? Do they have a chance of surviving? And this is one of the reasons why I didn’t want to even think of breeding anytime soon, if ever. I don’t have the knowledge or capability it seems to even successfully incubate even one clutch without screwing something up! I’m so upset and mad at myself. HELP
When you say looking worse, what do you mean exactly? From what I can see in that photo, they just look like they’re starting to dimple and don’t really seem very discolored, but it’s hard to see inside the container.
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They are more of a grayish-green tone than what the photo shows and definitely look like they are going yucky on the outside and have a slightly clear-ish and weaker feel to the shells compared to the other 2 that look ok to me. There is no moisture or condensation dripping on them at all so I’m at a loss as to why those 2 suddenly changed and within such a short time span. I mean, 48 days or so of looking normal and then boom.
These days I don’t even remove the press-n-seal at all until day 50, then I just lift a little of the edge to let some air come in under the lid. If you’re worried that the incubator itself is air tight, (although it probably isn’t unless it has a gasket,) just peeking in once a day after day 50 or so should give them more than enough air each day until they hatch.
A little mold isn’t unusual. Anything where the mold looks aggressive I rub a little lotramin powder every 1-2 weeks if it grows back. It takes a lot of mold to kill an egg. Candle yours and see how the veins are.
At day 48 they should be starting to get a bit softer. If you don’t have a fan circulating in the incubator then one side is probably hotter than the other so some might hatch a bit faster than others. Most likely not a problem for just one tub in there.
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Ahh thank you for the information. I have been freaking out all day. The first egg that started getting a little discolored gradually became more discolored but it was not stuck to any other egg and figured it was no big deal. I actually did rub lotramin powder every time I thought it was needing a fresh dusting. So it was a gradual decline with slightly more discoloration that had managed to go from one patch of the egg being discolored to the whole egg being discolored. I took my phone to my snake room to take some quick pictures of my setup and egg bin so that I could show the incubator and the eggs in the bin. I was horrified when I saw another egg fully discolored. It’s That attached to the normal looking egg. I quickly double checked that the egg crate things were still positioned so that the eggs were not sitting directly on the perlite and the gently lifted the first discolored egg to egg looked normal like the other two white ones but I had literally peeked in to see if I needed to add more lotrimin powder to the softer discolored egg and and my heart sank. I was horrified to notice 2 furry mold patches on the bottom of the older egg. I was freaking out and had a panic attack. I threw some powder in an upwards motion, hoping to get some directly on the bottom of the moldy hairy egg and put it back down. I am so confused as to why the 2nd egg turned the color of mold and developed a few seemingly frosted window-like patches in only 2 days most of the way through incubation. There’s was no condensation dripping on the eggs and hasn’t been present at all through the whole incubation period, and per some clever advice I read that you can position the bin so that it’s crooked enough to have any droplets roll down the incline and drip at the edge instead of directly onto the eggs. On day 48 I felt cautiously optimistic that the first moldy egg would continue its slow transition all the way till the baby pipped but now I’m less optimistic and more prepared to accept the fact that the mold and discoloration had lowered the chances of a healthy live baby would hatch. I’m not sure if the 2nd egg will last till pip time due to the quick deterioration.
Do you have any experience dealing with any similar issues in any of your clutches? I have a wifi govee inside the egg box that is set to give an audible notification on my phone of any temp or humidity drop or rise of >2° no matter if I’m home or not. So if it seems like there was no spike in either then why would they go bad this late in the process? What did I do wrong? Ugh I’m going to be losing lots of sleep for the next several days while I wait for either obvious signs that the hatchlings didn’t make it or that they hatch out healthy. I am certainly having second thoughts on trying my hand at intentionally breeding 2 of my own snakes to hatch out a clutch that I would actually be aware of and prepared for. I really wanted to have my daughter go through the whole process alongside me so that she could experience and learn hands on from start to finish. Then keep them all and we live happily ever after. But I don’t think I’d ever be able to go through it again and beating myself up about any complications that may arise.
Thank you for asking about my progress. You really did give me a glimmer of hope. I’m hoping I get lucky and have a mostly positive experience with a few complications rather than a sad experience that took an nosedive towards the very end of incubation. It’s not impossible for those 2 babies to come out unaffected by the dumpster fire outside of the egg lol
