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I was checking on my anery honduran eggs tonight and I noticed a blue splotch on the end of one. Now I am freaking out because these are my first snake eggs. So I check all of them and 4 out of the 7 have it. Some have it on the bottom and it is a big lump. Is this the egg rotting or the snake growing? I am really nervous and probably won't be able to sleep tonight! Let me know asap! The eggs have been incubating for about a month and 4 days.
Thanks in advance!
-Steve Page
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1.1 Anery Hondos
1.1 BPs
0.0.3 Crested Geckos

It sounds to me like the eggs are going bad. Sometimes bad eggs will get a white moss/fungus growing on them. Other times they can get really colorful patches of yellow, green and/or blue. There's really nothing that you can do about it though. Just keep incubating them and see what happens. Good luck.
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Paul Weaver
Carolina Herps

i noticed this on one container of my oketee corn eggs this week...given they are due to hatch next week, i think personally it is a result from that container being too moist...the 16 other eggs are fine..

good luck with them, ive seen pics of eggs in bad shape hatch just fine (prior post on either this board or the kingsnake board, reference to scarlet king eggs and honduran eggs)

Put a little neosporin on the blue spot (mold). In my experiance most eggs pull through, but the babys are usually smaller than the eggs without mold on them.
Good luck!
-Phil

Hey Steve,

Don't freak out just yet. I have had eggs that had some small spotches of discoloration on them and they hatched out just fine. If the splotches start spreading over a large surface area of the eggs, then I might start worrying but there's not much you can do at that point.

Just make sure its not too humid in there, which may be the problem. Once you're happy with the humidity, let them run their course and you may be surprised.

Good luck.

Dave

DNS Reptiles

Don't get too worried, it's most likely a form of fungus in which neosporin (as said before) often helps. If the spot seems almost tanslucent, try liquid bandage. Even if they get molded over and look as if to be dead, KEEP them until you're sure each and every one is ruined, because I have heard and seen pics of other clutches hatching fine when they eggs are completely molded over...and I mean completely textured and yellow/white/blueish...SO don't lose heart and good luck.
-Sean

Excellent information stated above and I agree, just leave them or use the techniques to help ward off the mold. You never know.

Quick story: My wife was helping cut away the rest of the dead and fungus filled eggs from the one I wasn't sure about. Carrion flies had eaten everything. This was the night before and 70 some days into incubation. She even rolled the egg accidentally several times. Low and behold the next morning I saw a pipped animal which was the mark of the year for me. I was test breeding a ghost poss het albino male x tangerine albino female. Apparently the tangerine albino female was het anery too (known to come from that line) and the ghost was het albino. Talk about luck.

Hang in there!
mgl