Somethin weirds goin on here

[CornBall]

Ok, here's what's been going on. I had my anery breed with 2 males and all was going good, she shed she laid her eggs about a week later and shed after laying. Like normal. All 21 eggs ended up being not fertile and went moldey.
Now here's what's got me thinking
I never put another male in with her after that, not intending to double clutch or anything, but one day I went in to clean the cages and found her with another 22 eggs, I now this can happen so I wasn't really thinking much of it. Now she never had any problems eating and never went into shed before laying these eggs so I had no signals telling me anything was up, so she laid without ever having a pre-lay shed. All the eggs looked allright but came out looking allright, not real white but not yellow looking like her first clutch.
I put them in the incubator (it's allready hatched another clutch this year)
This happened about a week ago.
Now the temps in the incubator have been all good.
I went to check on them today and some of the eggs (parts of their shells) are starting to have a lime greeny look, but they are still the same shape, is this a mold of some sort?
Now her other clutch didn't get this but grew fuzzy mold over them after caving in.
Now she's not eating but is in shed, though she has never refused a meal EVER before and she's 4-5 years old.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

thanks

-Ryan

[reverendsterlin]

well my blizzard gave me 14 infertile eggs, then about 2 weeks ago (3 months after the first lay) she gave me 6 more bad eggs. Sperm retention is common in snakes. Don't worry about food for a while but when she does restart eating feed her well to make up for lost weight and minerals

[BWSmith]

I had a Cotton drop after 3 years in isolation. They can tuck away those swimmers for a LONG time.

[ChunkyMunky]

Never heard of anything like that before, thats weird.

[reverendsterlin]

lol, some zoo, I think maybe in Houston, Tx. had a Crotalus atrox that had NEVER been near a male give birth to a single neonate. It's called parthenogenisis when there was never a male, sperm retention when there was a possibility of a past male leaving presents.

[CornBall]

I wasn't worried about the double clutching, as I know sperm retention happens in snakes. I was more scratching my head over that she never gave a pre-lay shed, what's that all about?
Also why were the shells starting to turn lime green without any mold starting to show?

-Ryan

[kevinp]

I had the same problem with my lavenders