Here's a cool picture of an Anaconda in the egg. This is from my Anaconda X Toffee Belly clutch.

http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss137/yesgeek/Hognose%20Pictures/IMG_0284.jpg

Normal Het Toffee in the egg...

http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss137/yesgeek/Hognose%20Pictures/IMG_0240.jpg

Awesome photos Greg...
I need an anaconda het toffee!!! Care to send one my way??? Ofcorse I will pay the shipping... LOL

Cant wait to see them out of the egg. I love the little hoggies!

Congrats!

Congrats Greg! Can't wait to see that super-conda toffee someday :D

Awesome shots! Congrats! Are hoggie eggs always transparent like that?

great pictures

Thanks everyone.

Awesome photos Greg...
I need an anaconda het toffee!!! Care to send one my way??? Ofcorse I will pay the shipping... LOLI hear ya. One will be waiting on you if you want her.

Congrats Greg! Can't wait to see that super-conda toffee someday :DThanks. Give me at least a year and half and we'll maybe have one. I'm very excited about this project. I think the super toffee will be spectacular.

Awesome shots! Congrats! Are hoggie eggs always transparent like that?Thanks. This is my first time hatching hognose eggs but I've seen others post transparent egg pictures also.

They went transparent just hours before the hognose pipped. It was very cool. Once they pipped the whole egg would go transparent.

Very neat pic!Q


The eggs looks pretty wet, the transparency is most likely from the fluid once the egg pipped. Very seldom do my western eggs go transparent, but I incubate a little on the dry side.

Awesome pics! the see through egg is awesome! Wish there was a formula for that! :lmao:

Cool pics -

Love the pics especially that second one. Look forward to seeing them out of the eggs.

Now that is awesome! Gotta love the baby Hoggies.

Very neat pic!Q


The eggs looks pretty wet, the transparency is most likely from the fluid once the egg pipped. Very seldom do my western eggs go transparent, but I incubate a little on the dry side.Thanks.

The eggs went transparent hours before each egg hatched. After talking with a few other breeders I think it's a Toffeebelly trait.

Most people that have hatched Toffees have noticed the transparency to some degree.

All eight of my eggs went completely transparent before piping. It was the craziest thing in the world to see. You could see the hognose inside of the egg moving around.

I have a few experiments planned to see if it's something that happens to eggs from females with the toffee gene or if it's something that happens to eggs that have babies that carry the toffee gene. It's nothing scientific but fun to mess around with.

I have 8 more eggs in the incubator from my toffee female. If they do the same and non of my other non toffee eggs do it I'm going to start thinking it's a toffee gene thing for sure.

Hognose just keep getting more and more fun to keep. I just love the little worms.

Awesome pics! the see through egg is awesome! Wish there was a formula for that! :lmao:Thanks. It may be a gene that makes it happen.

Cool pics -Thanks.

Love the pics especially that second one. Look forward to seeing them out of the eggs.I'll post some right side up pictures soon. I have some playing dead pictures posted. Check the post "I think I killed my hognose".

Now that is awesome! Gotta love the baby Hoggies.Hogs are the best reptiles. I just can't get enough of them. They just have so much attitude and personality.

Hi Gregg

Great pics!
we noticed that this is hapend when the humidity level is high in the air. Raimo did notice the same effect one day after candelling in the middle of incubation time.

So we did lower the humidity and now...they do get transparent wile hatching only

http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af225/RBE-pics/Hakennasen/Schlupf-03.jpg

Hi Gregg

Great pics!
we noticed that this is hapend when the humidity level is high in the air. Raimo did notice the same effect one day after candelling in the middle of incubation time.

So we did lower the humidity and now...they do get transparent wile hatching onlyInteresting. I used a dry vermiculite mixture. Around 3/4 to 1 by weight of water and vermiculite.

I did do a lot of candling for the first half of the incubation. I was an excited expecting dad and it was hard to leave the eggs alone. :o

last year we used 1/3 of water by weight and had a lot of condensation on the botom of the tub and a lot of transparent eggs.
this year we lower the water to 1/4 with only a few litlle water drops in the corners of the bottom from the tub.
This time we had only transparent eggs wile hatching. especialy when the fluid from inside flow over the surface of the egg.
As soon as we removed the eggs with the hatchling in separate tubs, the eggs turn white.
This is the reason why I think it´s a humidity "problem"

http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af225/RBE-pics/Hakennasen/Schlupf-04.jpg
(the same clutch/tub like the pic before)
breeding was het x homozygot Toffe...so all of them have the Toffee Belly gene in them