Alice laid eggs on December 21st...all but two molded. I assumed this was because she was only breed once by the male. I did not leave them together. Okay here is the question... the two remaining eggs show a yolk and veins when candled, have grown to a BIG size and are very pinkish instead of white. Do infertile eggs grow? Do fertile egggs ever just grow but not hatch? It doesn't look like there is anything like baby lizards inside but I don't want to throw out these eggs and I don't want to disect one to find out. Does anyone else have eggs that grow but don't hatch? Am I incorrect to assume an infertile egg will not grow? Out of the last two years of dragon raising I have never incountered this.
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Alice's eggs
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eggs layed in late december should hatch early march (usually ten weeks is the time frame)...but if temperatures are low it will take longer, but 6 extra weeks doesn't sound right to me. Usually infertile eggs will collapse. the pinkish color eggs can result from low calcium....where infertile eggs are usually yellowish.
if you are incubating at 86 F, i would suspect they aren't going to hatch.
maybe someone else here will have better suggestions
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These eggs are in 84 degree temps and we just hatched out a normal clutch in the same incubator. These two eggs are larger than the ones that just hatched. They are almost transparent. You can see yolk and veins now without candling. They are very pink. Weird. I'm just gonna wait it out. If no one lives in there they should rot eventually. Like I said I've never experienced this before in any reptile. But I'm just an experienced hobbiest not a pro. Thanks again.
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3.4.0 Beardies
1.1.0 Crested Geckos
1.0.0 marbled salamander
1.1.0 Box Turtles
0.1.0 Sulcata
0.1.0 Ball Python
1.0.0 corn snake
0.1.0 great plains rat snake
0.2.0 Blue Beauty Snakes
1.0.0 tangerine Hondo snake
1.0.0 Banana King snake
1.0.0 Desert King snake
0.1.0 jungle carpet python
2.7.0 Guinea Piggies
3.6.0 Dumbo rats
1.0.0 Blue Front Amazon Parrot
0.1.0 Congo African Grey Parrot
1.1.0 house cats
2.0.0 Maine Coon Cats
2.0.0 Boxer
I would keep incubating, though they should have hatched by now. Bearded dragon eggs hatch between 55 and 75 days and it now being April, your eggs have been incubating for around 90 days (if not more). Take a sniff of one of these eggs and see if it smells bad, if so, then just toss them. If they smell fine, they may hatch. Candeling shouldn't work at this point, if they are fertile and developing fine. I beleive later staged eggs turn more opaque and you can't see through the shell with a bright light at all.
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