Hey Warren,
I posted pics of the clutch (the portion that had hatched) somewhere in this thread. This pairing of BPs tends to give me a hatch length of 53 days on average (at 88-89 F). Last year I did not slit the eggs (in fact I rarely if ever slit eggs before this year) and I waited for all the animals to pip on their own. Needless to say I found the three dead mystery guys around day 60. I revised my thinking on manual egg pipping during a weekend sea turtle trek I helped lead (long story I will tell it to you over a beer someday) and this year I have experienced no problems.

Take care

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• New morph popped out of a clutch - phil bradley, Sun Jul 26 20:32:31 2009
• RE: New morph popped out of a clutch - kinderman, Sun Jul 26 20:45:19 2009
• RE: New morph popped out of a clutch - tmlascola, Thu Jul 30 19:20:52 2009
• RE: New morph popped out of a clutch - warren_booth, Sun Jul 26 21:07:01 2009
• RE: New morph popped out of a clutch - dmasio13, Sun Jul 26 21:09:13 2009
• RE: New morph popped out of a clutch - Brandon Osborne, Sun Jul 26 21:15:16 2009
• not striped - JYohe, Mon Jul 27 18:55:38 2009
• Hypo Genetic Stripe? - jluman, Sun Jul 26 21:16:58 2009
• RE: New morph popped out of a clutch - pfan151, Sun Jul 26 21:57:21 2009
• RE: New morph popped out of a clutch - anthony james mc, Mon Jul 27 02:42:39 2009
• I had one hatch like that. ........PIC - rockinreptiles2, Mon Jul 27 07:36:52 2009
• Not a G stripe Hypo..... - rockinreptiles2, Mon Jul 27 07:44:06 2009
• That is the same male! - phil bradley, Mon Jul 27 15:05:39 2009
• RE: That is the same male! - rockinreptiles2, Mon Jul 27 15:26:38 2009
• RE: That is the same male! - anthony james mc, Mon Jul 27 15:27:43 2009
• RE: That is the same male! - rockinreptiles2, Mon Jul 27 15:35:14 2009
• Appears to be a lethal gene... - kinderman, Mon Jul 27 17:35:50 2009
• Hopefully not - phil bradley, Tue Jul 28 09:50:08 2009
• RE: Appears to be a lethal gene... - Warren_Booth, Tue Jul 28 13:41:48 2009
• RE: Appears to be a lethal gene... - phil bradley, Wed Jul 29 08:12:11 2009
• '08 mystery BP pics - phil bradley, Tue Jul 28 13:44:21 2009
• 2009 mystery BP pics - phil bradley, Wed Jul 29 08:03:20 2009
• WOW.... - mandk, Wed Jul 29 10:41:29 2009
• Lets see adults! and post shed! - Atlas511, Wed Jul 29 15:35:35 2009
• Wow, that's crazy! - bristen, Thu Jul 30 13:22:59 2009
• RE: New morph popped out of a clutch - tmlascola, Fri Jul 31 07:01:56 2009
• RE: New morph popped out of a clutch - Atlas511, Fri Jul 31 14:58:00 2009