Clutch was laid 5/4. All stuck together, but I marked the tops anyway b4 I put them on a grid (substrate-less method) in a shoebox sized container with lid & no air holes.

Candled & looked great all the way till about last week when I thought movement seemed a bit less when candled.

I was determined not to cut. Today I checked the eggs & there was tiny bit of neon green on the eggs. I saw no movement, freaked out, & cut all of them only to find 10 perfectly formed dead babies. A few had even absorbed 85-90% of the yolk.

Using Nature's Spirit incubator with Spider Robotics t-stat. Eggs shoot at 88-89 & I have a tub of h20 in there so humidity is close to 100%.

Needless to say I am quite frustrated & want to prevent this from happening again.

It was a normal female bred to a couple visuals, spider, pastel...nothing fancy.

Thoughts, flames, lectures, ideas...all welcome. I am clueless.

Everything else in the bator appears to be chuggin along fine. Of course I'm paranoid from here out. DOH!
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• 10 dead - Heat, Mon Jun 30 20:12:24 2008
• RE: 10 dead - evansnakes, Mon Jun 30 20:24:39 2008
• RE: 10 dead - Heat, Mon Jun 30 20:29:37 2008
• RE: 10 dead - kinderman, Mon Jun 30 20:28:31 2008
• RE: 10 dead - evansnakes, Mon Jun 30 20:28:57 2008
• RE: 10 dead - emberball, Mon Jun 30 21:41:35 2008
• RE: 10 dead - Heat, Mon Jun 30 22:08:39 2008
• Sorry to hear...my guess... - JP, Mon Jun 30 22:07:52 2008
• RE: Sorry to hear...my guess... - RandyRemington, Mon Jun 30 22:24:33 2008
• RE: Sorry to hear...my guess... - Coldthumb, Mon Jun 30 23:01:49 2008
• RE: 10 dead - LibertyReptiles, Tue Jul 1 00:04:00 2008
• RE: 10 dead - wh00h0069, Fri Jul 4 08:07:12 2008