I agree with Ken, I wouldn't worry about the temp getting to 93 degrees for a short while. Turtle eggs in the wild naturally experience a wide degree of fluctuations in temperature, including extremes. I have had eggs get to over 100 degrees F before because of a like situation and had all hatch out unaffected. Only one part of your story does concern me though. After two weeks of incubation, you referred to your eggs as being pink. In most (but not all) cases, the shell surface area exposed to gas exchange should have turned to a chalky-white coloration by this point. In viable eggs you will normally notice a white spot begins to form at the northern-most (or thereabouts) point of the egg within a couple days of laying. This is due to the young blastocyst attaching itself to the egg wall (this is why you don't rotate reptile eggs) and beginning the natural gas exchange and absorbtion of calcium from the egg wall. Like Ken said, I would hold out for awhile though. I have had bad eggs mold shortly after beginning incubation, but also go the whole incubation duration without attracting any mold. (The yolks of these had become sludgy inside upon opening.) Good luck. Let us know what happens!



Sidenote- If anyone has hatched out eggs that never attained the chalky-white coloration of a "normal" viable egg, please post, I would be interested to hear!



-JG

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